Waterfront development could be 'Hobart's Opera House moment' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Waterfront development could be 'Hobart's Opera House moment'By Nicole PricePostedNovember 22, 2015 12:52:17 The creative team at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) will help shape public spaces in a waterfront redevelopment it has dubbed "Hobart's Sydney Opera House moment".MONA has been hired by the Macquarie Point Development Corporation to provide a concept for the site's large public space.The area makes up 40 per cent of the nine-hectare Macquarie Point redevelopment site on the Rive..>> view originalPolice keep the peace between United Patriot Front, Reclaim...
Police keep the peace between United Patriot Front, Reclaim Australia and rival protesters in HobartPostedNovember 22, 2015 16:17:09 About 20 police have kept rival demonstrators at a rally apart in Hobart.Tasmania Police's Public Order Management Team lined the fences of Parliament House lawns to stop the two groups meeting.About 60 anti-Islam protestors from the groups United Patriot Front and Reclaim Australia gathered at Franklin Square and marched down to Princes Wharf.Carrying Australi..>> view originalOffenders flee empty-handed after attempted robbery at Hobart store - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Offenders flee empty-handed after attempted robbery at Hobart storePostedNovember 22, 2015 14:59:12 Two Launceston men have been taken into custody for questioning after an attempted robbery and fire at a shop in Hobart's northern suburbs.Police said a car was driven into the front of the Albert Road store in Moonah just after midnight on Sunday.The car and the shop caught alight, causing damage to the shop's facade.Police said the two offenders were unable to gain entry to the store and fle..>> view originalGiant RAAF Globemaster makes first cargo flight to Antarctica
Globemaster on ice: An RAAF heavy-lift aircraft takes on a "patient" in a med-evac exercise.Photo: Andrew DarbyRAAF loadmaster Greg Moore says he sometimes feels like an orchestra conductor when his crew wrangles complex loads onto heavy-lift aircraft.This time he could add to his score the rush of a polar ice landing, as the air force opened a new route to Antarctica carrying cargo on a Boeing C-17 Globemaster.How did the performance go?Polar milestone: Air Commodore Richard Lennon (left) and ..>> view originalTravel insurance and illness: Beware the fine print and age limits
A few weeks ago, visiting Ireland, I received the kind of text message every traveller dreads.Travel insurance and illness: Beware the fine print and age limitsCheck the fine print in travel insurance if you have elderly relatives. Photo: Rob HomerCheck the fine print in travel insurance if you have elderly relatives. Photo: Rob HomerCheck the fine print in travel insurance if you have elderly relatives. Photo: Rob HomerCheck the fine print in travel insurance if you have elderly relatives. Phot..>> view originalAustralian Paris attack survivor Emma Parkinson speaks about...
Video will begin in5seconds.Paris attacks: no words to describe the painParisians are struggling to make sense of the violence that shook their lives amid the ongoing investigation and the grieving.PT1M20S620349Paris terror attack survivor Emma Parkinson had just been shot inside the Bataclan theatre by one of four armed terrorists who had stormed the building.As the wounded Australian ran for her life, she recalled: "There was no one that didn't have blood on them. Everyone was covered. I'm jus..>> view originalWhy won't Shane Warne face Leigh Sales?
Video will begin in5seconds.If Leigh interviewed ShaneWe imagined how it might look if Leigh Sales brought her trademark tough questions to a sit-down with career larrikin Shane Warne.PT0M52S620349Leigh Sales is Captain Ahab and Shane Warne is her Moby Dick."People often ask me who is the person I most want to interview for7.30. The answer is Shane Warne but it's always a no," she tweeted last week, tagging the cricketing great.The hard-hitting presenter of ABC's flagship current affairs program..>> view originalWorld's best in wicket-keeping revolution
Sarah Taylor in 2014 gloves a wide ball which Australian Nicole Bolton couldn't reach. Taylor will play for South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers this Summer.Photo: Getty ImagesThe days of women cricketers wearing wicket-keeping pads are numbered, one of Australia's top coaches says, as more female players opt for greater ease of movement behind the stumps.British superstar Sarah Taylor, who is in Australia this summer, is one of several women taking the approach and South Australia head coa..>> view originalOpposing groups protest peacefully
United Patriots Front rally-goers leave Franklin Square to walk to Parliament Lawns, where a Tasmania Welcomes Diversity counter-protest was being held. Pictures: KIM EISZELEAN anti-Islamic rally and pro-diversity counter-protest have taken place in Hobart without incident.The United Patriots Front rally enjoyed its biggest turnout so far but was still outnumbered three-to-one by counter-protesters.The rally coincided with Reclaim Australia protests around the counrty.About 50 people attended th..>> view originalDEEP GOLD
Lake Pieman doesn't come to mind when the search for gold is mentioned. But an innovative company is plumbing its depths to harvest a crop of precious timber from rare trees, drowned when the lake was formed. LUCY SWINNEN reports.Will Gordon on Lake Pieman.WILL GORDON is hunting the great white whale.At least, that is what it feels like for Australia's only underwater excavator, and one of the few in the world.Mr Gordon is on a mission to find the rare huon pine under Lake Pieman's murky depths...>> view original
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