Thursday, October 13, 2016

Zucco should resign: Mayor and other top stories.

  • Zucco should resign: Mayor

    Zucco should resign: Mayor
    HOBART Lord Mayor Sue Hickey has called for Alderman Marti Zucco to resign from the council in an explosive email sent to council staff and fellow aldermen. The leaked email followed a Talking Point article written by Ald Zucco about the council’s handling of the Taste of Tasmania in yesterday’s Mercury. “In all my days, I have never seen such political interference and crap as that portrayed in Zucco’s article,” Ald Hickey wrote. “Shame on you Marti …. With less than three months to the Taste a..
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  • Robert John Adams murder trial at NSW Supreme Court

    Robert John Adams murder trial at NSW Supreme Court
    The NSW Supreme Court has been hearing details of what the Crown alleges happened to nurse Mary Louise Wallace in 1983.WHO killed Mary Louise Wallace?For more than 30 years the question about who killed the popular nurse —and where her body is — been one that has captivated her family, friends and homicide detectives. This week the NSW Supreme Court has heard evidence the Crown alleges points to the killer, Robert John Adams, 64.He has pleaded not guilty to the 1983 murder and is defending the c..
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  • It's been a long time coming for Josh

    It's been a long time coming for Josh
    HE’S been talked out of retiring on several occasions in the past few years and today it will all be worthwhile for University stalwart Josh Bean.The unorthodox spinner – who has bamboozled his fair share of CTPL batsman in a career spanning two decades – will chalk up his 300th first grade appearance when the Lions kick off their 2016-17 campaign against Glenorchy in the first of the T20 double headers at Anzac Park.Bean, 15 wickets shy of Ray Brown’s club record of 495, becomes just the fourth..
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  • Lobster industry shake-up predicted after Tasmanians find 'holy grail ...

    Lobster industry shake-up predicted after Tasmanians find 'holy grail ...
    Lobster industry shake-up predicted after Tasmanians find 'holy grail' of aquaculture Updated October 08, 2016 16:25:00 Researchers are claiming a world-first aquaculture breakthrough in Tasmania that could reshape the rock lobster industry.Hobart's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has developed a hatchery process that until now, has been impossible, due to the lobster's complex larval cycle.University of Tasmania Associate Professor Greg Smith is the director..
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  • Artworks born in a barn

    Artworks born in a barn
    WHEN printmaker Nic Goodwolf creates art in his South Hobart studio, he feels as though he is part of a rich history. The 46-year-old works from an 1830s barn which is dark and crowded, but he loves the inspiration he gets from the historic space.The exposed brick walls and beams tell stories of the past – there’s evidence of the horses that once lived in the stables, the community boxing matches held in the space and the boot-making supplies that were housed there when the Blundstone tannery op..
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  • Found: the holy grail of lobster raising will rock the world

    Found: the holy grail of lobster raising will rock the world
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  • Miracle mum's 'perfect' twins

    Miracle mum's 'perfect' twins
    HOBART woman Joni-Lee James has known she has wanted to be a mother to twins since she was just seven years old.But it was far from an easy road for the now 39-year-old to finally make that dream a reality.The new mum has battled pre-cervical cancer, early menopause, premature ovarian failure, depression, a miscarriage and seven cycles of IVF to finally become pregnant with her miracle twins.Jolene and Henley were born six weeks premature on September 20 at Hobart Private Hospital.They should be..
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  • Harriet Aird

    Posted October 08, 2016 10:50:45 | Updated October 08, 2016 16:25:00 Developers of a new lobster hatchery process, which until now has been impossible, are now looking for companies to test the system commercially. Topics: fishing-aquaculture, rural, fish, animal-science, tas
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  • Tasmanian Luke McGregor on bullying, OCD and having regular ...

    Tasmanian Luke McGregor on bullying, OCD and having regular ...
    AS A red-headed bucktoothed kid with thick glasses, comedy was pretty much Luke McGregor’s only option for survival growing up in the Hobart suburb of Glenorchy.An unfortunate jaw problem (later fixed) meant his teeth stuck out and he couldn’t close his mouth, leaving him looking “permanently surprised”. Adding to his social woes, his school was the only one in the area with a uniform, and it was a particular twee one at that.“I was a bit of a target,” he says as we live it up on the ABC’s hospi..
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  • The horror never goes away

    The horror never goes away
    A BALLINA man who helped drag a shark victim to shore and fought in vain to save the surfer’s life has told of the horror of that day and how the pings on his phone in the middle of the night, set off by tagged sharks, “freak’’ him out.Darren Rogers’ gripping account of the day Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara was killed by a great white shark at Ballina’s Shelly Beach — February 9, 2015 — is detailed in a new book, Sharks Never Sleep, by journalist, filmmaker and television producer Brendan McA..
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