Positive moves at Myer's Hobart site and other top stories.

• Positive moves at Myer's Hobart site

  GOOD progress has been made on Myer’s Murray St reconstruction site as the department store moves closer to an announcement about the reopening of its flagship Liverpool St store.The Hobart Rivulet is flowing freely again after teams worked for three nights to clear tonnes of rubble, complicated by the discovery of asbestos on the site last week.Hutchinson Builders team leader Mick Connolly said the giant crane used to install concrete blocks and steel girders was removed on Thursday night to al..

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• Woman charged over airport ice seizure

  

  POLICE have charged 45-year-old woman with trafficking after she allegedly tried to bring two ounces of ice through Hobart International Airport. The Hobart woman was caught today after a being randomly searched by a sniffer dog.Police alleged the 56g of crystallised methamphetamine was worth $56,000.The woman has been charged with trafficking in a controlled substance and bailed to appear at the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later date.

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• Bryan Brown and friends in town

  

  MOVIE stars Bryan Brown, John Jarratt and Graeme Blundell are heading to Hobart this weekend for a special screening of a classic Aussie war film.The acclaimed 1979 Vietnam War movie The Odd Angry Shot, which starred Brown, Jarratt and Blundell alongside Graham Kennedy and John Hargreaves, will be shown on Saturday night and followed by a live Q&A session featuring the actors, director Tom Jeffrey and producer Sue Milliken.Released four years after the end of the war, The Odd Angry Shot was cons..

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• Toddler takes stage in bittersweet University of Tasmania graduation ...

  

  Toddler takes stage in bittersweet University of Tasmania graduation ceremony Posted August 12, 2016 21:12:55 A toddler was the youngest person on stage at the University of Tasmania's mid-year graduation ceremony in Hobart.More than 1,000 people graduated from the university, including from the faculties of Art, Education and Law, as well as Graduate Research.Two-year-old Emily Watson gripped her father Tim's hand tightly as Bachelor of Educational Studies was post..

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  Derryn Hinch's new significant other is Canberra: "I think she is going to take up all of my time." Jesse Marlow Few "Lunch with the AFR" guests start the tale of their latest career move with "the last time I got out of jail". But Derryn Hinch is no ordinary freshman senator. He has been five times married, thrice incarcerated for revealing the priors of sex offenders on trial, and once reprieved by liver transplant.He has been a rich celebrit..

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• Fraud case jury to resume next week

  

  A SUPREME Court jury considering the case of a former husband and wife accused of defrauding the man’s elderly parents of their own home will continue its deliberations next week.Rodney Matthew Klye and Jodie Diane Earley have both pleaded not guilty to two counts of forgery, one count of fraud and one count of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage, over alleged conduct dating back to 2011. Mr Klye has pleaded not guilty to an added charge of uttering.Summing up the case for the 11-person ..

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• 'Calm waters' likely to elude embattled CSIRO chief

  

  Larry Marshall, the embattled chief executive of the CSIRO, is clearly hoping for anger within his agency over his handling of the hundreds of job cuts will subside.In the past few weeks, he has visited sites from Canberra to Hobart, hobnobbing at morning and afternoon teas with small groups of staff, apparently avoiding the large Q&A sessions that sparked staff booing, a complaint of bullying and at least one walkout earlier this year. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide ..

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• Fear is a great motivator for school learning

  

  IT might be interesting to look back at primary school in the 1950s to see whether what was normal then might be politically incorrect today.Let’s look at school positions to which kids might aspire. These days, kids might be student representatives, class captains or sport captains.In the 1950s in Moonah, being a monitor was the go. Maybe the highest position one could aspire to was goitre tablet monitor. Giving out tablets to the class was a responsible position. The monitor might give their m..

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• Devonport man Jim Crowden dedicates decades of his life to find ...

  

  Devonport man Jim Crowden dedicates decades of his life to find mystery space object Updated August 12, 2016 17:41:24 In 1985 while fishing near Lake Rowallan in northern Tasmania, Jim Crowden from Devonport saw something in the sky that he would spend the next 30 years searching for.It was around 6am in the morning and Mr Crowden was getting ready to go fishing."I was baiting my fishing hook up ready to throw out and I heard a sound right up above," Mr Crowden said."I ..

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• Baby boomers move on Tasmania's affordable luxury housing

  

  Baby boomers move on Tasmania’s affordable luxury housingLisa AllenThe Australian12:00AM August 13, 2016SaveProperty & tourism reporterSydney Mainlanders, particularly baby boomers, are relocating to Tasmania where a Georgian mansion can be bought for as little as $2 million.The dream of moving to Tasmania because of its affordable luxury housing and easy access to beaches, rivers and lakes, is increasingly appealing to mainlanders intent on swapping their $1.5m to $2m house in Sydney or Melbou..

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