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Council mergers 'inevitable' as Hobart City Council approves economic ...

Hobart's Lord Mayor has said local council amalgamations in Tasmania are "inevitable" after Hobart City Council voted in favour of an economic assessment of voluntary amalgamations and shared services with other councils. The city council voted nine to ... >> view original

Quirky $200 Million Art Venture Proves Just the Ticket for Tasmania

HOBART, Australia — For most of its existence, Tasmania was known as a faraway island at the bottom of Australia, a grim 19th-century redoubt where British colonial officers imprisoned convicts in the harshest of the empire's jails and killed much of ... >> view original

IHG crowns first deal in Tasmania with 187-room Hobart CBD site

Kailis Group chief executive Alexia Kalis expects the hotel to attract the corporate market given Hobart's popularity as a meetings destination. “Improvements in air access are leading to increasing visitor arrivals every year,” she said. “This has ... >> view original

Naked Australia – top seven things to do in the nude

To draw a map of Tassie in Tassie, head to Hobart's Adult Education Tasmania. While participants are invited to wear old clothes or a smock, their subjects are naked, as it is said to be easier to draw a body which is “unencumbered or obscured” by ... >> view original

Courtney Barnett: A Wit Is Born

These days there's always something keeping my mind busy." Barnett grew up an hour outside Sydney in a sunny town by the beach. When she was in her midteens, her family moved to comparatively cold, rainy Hobart, Tasmania. "It was actually great in the ... >> view original

Body of Canberra hiker who died on Mt Ossa flown to Hobart

The body of a Canberra man who died after falling off a cliff on Tasmania's tallest mountain has been flown to Hobart. The 59-year-old man died on Sunday after falling almost 20 metres on the mountain which is in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Claire ... >> view original

Hobart to host international men's hockey tournament

Tasmania will host an international men's hockey tournament in May, with national teams taking to the field in Hobart for the first time since 2011. With the help of a $60,000 grant from the State Government, the Tasmanian Hockey Centre secured a four ... >> view original

John Wesley and Religious Liberty

Recently a letter by John Wesley revealing his views about law enforcement and religious freedom was tweeted by its owner, the Wesley Hobart Museum of the Uniting Church in Tasmania, Australia. The letter, addressed to an ironmonger turned Methodist ... >> view original

Cali set to be hit by Australian Hale storm

As the Australian domestic tour got under way a few weeks later, in Hobart as luck would have it, 16-year-old Hale found himself the face of the meeting. This was not totally unprecedented, but you would probably have to go back to 1949 and 17-year-old ... >> view original

Road accident data reveals Hobart roundabout as Tasmania's top crash site

Crash data showing a high number of accidents on Hobart's historic Railway Roundabout suggests it could be struggling with modern traffic demands. Independent analysis of 10 years' worth of data showed this was Tasmania's number-one crash site, with ... >> view original