Federal funding cuts blamed for closure of 10 dementia beds in Hobart and other top stories

Federal funding cuts blamed for closure of 10 dementia beds in Hobart

Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley said the funding deal was a one-off and that while it had stopped, federal funding for Tasmania's hospitals overall would increase by 30 per cent over the next four years. "It was one-off funding and it was never ... >> view original

Camera captures New Zealand, Australia

We stopped at many towns, including Tauranga, Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin in New Zealand and Hobart, Tasmania." Why did you travel there? "We went Nov. 16-28, 2013. My wife and I had been thinking about going to Australia and New Zealand. >> view original

Do whales have graveyards where they prefer to die?

In 2005, a team led by Karen Evans, then at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, analysed records of strandings over 82 years in south-east Australia and Tasmania. They found that strandings peaked every 11-13 years, and these peaks correlated with ... >> view original

Man pleads guilty to trafficking after biggest drugs bust in Tasmanian history

Hobart's Supreme Court Justice David Porter heard the 27-year-old from Blackmans Bay was a member of the Rebels Motorcycle Club at the time of the trafficking, but that he had since severed ties with the organisation and handed back his patches in an ... >> view original

Memorial for Canadian convicts sent to Tasmania rededicated in Hobart

A memorial for almost 100 political prisoners sent from Canada to Australia's penal colonies following an 1830s rebellion has been rededicated in Hobart. The large granite monument was removed in 2004 and has been updated with more accurate historical ... >> view original

Pacific Garbage Patch researcher speaks at University of Puget Sound March 3

A year later, the native of Long Beach, California, launched the aluminum hulled research vessel, Alguita, in Hobart, Tasmania. He also helped organize a research voyage to document contamination of Australia's east coast. It was in 1997, while ... >> view original

Tasmania inextricably linked to the game of footy

Early 1920s, York Park, the Northern Tasmanian Football Association versus the Hobart-based Tasmanian Football League, Tas Crosswell takes a high mark in the left forward pocket, northern end of the ground. "He went up like an angel," said the old man, ... >> view original

No charges against Tas teacher: police

Public hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Hobart in November, were told Mr Thomas had abused students at the city's elite Hutchins boys' school where he worked as a teacher in the 1960s. >> view original

Business lobby wants more scrutiny of Tasmania's high petrol prices

A report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) showed, on average, petrol prices in Hobart were 11 cents a litre higher than the five major cities in the past seven months. The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's ... >> view original

Tasmania's Biggest Tourist Draw Features a Poo Machine and the Chocolate ...

In one race, however, Tasmania is winning: tourism. In 2013 Lonely Planet named Hobart—this windswept gateway to the Antarctic with a population of 214,000—as one of its top-10 destinations worldwide. It has long attracted an “outdoorsy” set, but now ... >> view original