Quirky $200 Million Art Venture Proves Just the Ticket for Tasmania and other top stories

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

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

Gambling Millionaire David Walsh's Kooky Tasmania Museum MONA Clocks 1 ...

The remote Australian island of Tasmania is experiencing new-found popularity thanks to Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the brainchild of millionaire collector David Walsh. Historically, the island was known for housing one of the British ... >> view original

Tasmania's best wilderness retreats: breathing the purest air on the planet

For spectacular coast, a carnival of wildlife (including Australia's only white wallabies) and a burgeoning food scene, stay on Bruny Island in the four-star cottages of Tasmania's leading birder, biologist Dr Tonia Cochran. Hobart is an hour away ... >> 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

Former Rebels bikie Nicholas Mark Stebbins sentenced to 12-and-a-half years ...

The Supreme Court in Hobart had previously heard Stebbins was part of an organised group that imported drugs to Australia and Tasmania, and often used the digital currency Bitcoin to send money to China to pay for the drugs. In sentencing, Justice ... >> view original

Sheffield Shield final: Victoria to host Western Australia at Hobart's ...

CA and Cricket Victoria confirmed that Junction simply wasn't up to scratch, dismissing any notion that Victoria may have been using the Hobart move as a political pawn in their bid to ensure government grants keep coming for the ground's redevelopment. >> view original

WA get back Mackin for Shield final

Western Australia paceman Simon Mackin will return from injury for the Sheffield Shield final with Victoria in Hobart, starting Saturday. Mackin has ... Opener Chris Rogers is also set to play despite straining his glute in last week's crushing win ... >> view original

Australia all-rounder Watson savours World Cup life-line

Australia's Shane Watson hits a four from the bowling of Scotland's Josh Davey during their Cricket World Cup match at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Tasmania, March 14, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Stringer ... >> view original

HCC and Business Events Tasmania launch bid for greater share of conference ...

Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey and Business Events Tasmania chairman Malcolm Wells today signed a new memorandum of understanding to develop the city as a premier business events destination. But both said the city desperately needed improve its ... >> view original