TAS

Forgotten Tasmanians welcome PM's apology

Emotional Tasmanians welcomed the Prime Minister's apology to forgotten Australians and child migrants with mixed feelings.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 3:22 pm
Affordable housing grows

Some of the 3 000 Tasmanians on the public housing waiting list could soon be in new homes, with dozens more houses to be completed this year.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 4:19 pm
Murderer 'threatened in jail'

A Hobart court has heard a 22-year-old man who murdered another man in a city department store has received death threats in prison and been physically attacked.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 2:11 pm
Tsunami alert workshops

Tasmania's tsunami response plans are going up a gear this week.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 2:05 pm
Tasmania pays $37m to state care abused

Tasmania is urging other states and territories to follow its lead in addressing issues related to the abuse of people in state care.
November 16, 2009, 12:55 pm
Call to identify land tax sacrifices

Tasmania's peak welfare body wants the state's political parties to outline services that would be sacrificed if Land Tax is reduced.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 11:31 am
Two arrested over Launceston assault

Tasmania Police in Launceston have arrested two men in relation to an attack on an 18 year old man at his home in Trevallyn last night.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 11:28 am
Technical colleges fight for future

Tasmanian educators and business-people are planning a takeover of two northern technical colleges.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 11:28 am
Devils doomed unless island home found

Time is running out to save the tasmanian devil from a deadly cancer that has killed more than 70 per cent of the population.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 10:31 am
Grassroots climate change grants

Community grants are being offered to boost grassroots efforts against climate change.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 9:30 am
Pressure on Government in final sitting week

Tasmania's Opposition parties are expected to go in hard during the final week of sittings before the state election next year.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 9:06 am
Million dollar bill for failed canal estate

Walker Corporation will be charged more than $1 million for the assessment of its failed canal estate proposed for Ralphs Bay at Lauderdale, in Tasmania's south.
ABC - November 16, 2009, 8:02 am
Hobart man pays tribute to lost father at HMAS Sydney service

A man whose father died on the HMAS Sydney was among those to remember the men lost at sea in a service on Hobart's waterfront this morning.
ABC - November 15, 2009, 1:09 pm
Lean times for apple orchardists

Orchardists in the Huon Valley in Tasmania's south are getting out of the industry, citing poor farm gate prices as the main reason.
ABC - November 15, 2009, 12:32 pm
New memorial to fallen soldiers

Hundreds of Tasmanian prisoners of war are being commemorated at a new memorial in the state's north.
ABC - November 14, 2009, 3:15 pm
Bike bells ring in MONA festival

Hobart residents have had a sneak preview of one of summer's alternative arts and music festivals.
ABC - November 14, 2009, 12:41 pm
Health inquiry into woodchip piles

Tasmania's Health Department is investigating if it is possible for legionella to survive in woodchip piles, such as the one on the Burnie waterfront.
ABC - November 14, 2009, 12:17 pm
Scientists ponder devil move to fight tumour disease

Tasmanian devil researchers will meet next week to decide whether to move some of Tasmania's healthy devils in a bid to increase resistance to the deadly facial tumour disease.
ABC - November 14, 2009, 11:29 am
Berriedale houses to be crushed, recycled

A public housing estate north of Hobart is to be recycled, in a bid to reduce landfill.
ABC - November 14, 2009, 10:41 am
Labor MPs rally behind Bartlett

Tasmanian Government ministers have reaffirmed their support for the Premier in the face of his waning popularity with voters just months out from the state election.
ABC - November 13, 2009, 8:31 pm