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

Hobart's Victoria Gunpowder Magazine to become first heritage building handed ...

The gunpowder was not made in Tasmania, it was imported from England on boats and stored on the site close to the sea and near the railway lines. The preservation of the brick interior and brick vaulted ceilings is funded by the State Government, but ... >> 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

Budget Hobart houses will be the city's best 2015 performers: Domain Group

The Hobart housing market will consolidate its performance of 2014 with moderate prices growth expected through 2015, according to the Domain Group senior economist, Andrew Wilson. Hobart has recorded prices growth over the last two years following a ... >> view original

Deregulation 'threat to Tas uni campuses'

THE institution has campuses in Hobart, Sydney, Launceston and Burnie and it is the latter two in the north of the state that could suffer. "In a competitive, deregulated environment, any part of the University of Tasmania that is not itself ... >> view original

Melbourne man charged with attempted murder in Hobart

A Melbourne man is facing a charge of attempted murder after an incident in a Hobart suburb. Jason Ralph Jay, 33, appeared in the Magistrate's Court in Hobart this morning. Police allege Jay attempted to kill a Rosetta woman on Wednesday night by ... >> view original

ICC Cricket World Cup: Australia face up to India threat

... (2nd R) celebrates with team mates Michael Clarke (L), James Faulkner (2nd L) and Steven Smith (R) after taking the wicket of Scotland's Preston Mommsen during their Cricket World Cup match at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Tasmania, March 14, 2015. >> view original

LIVE: 2015 Sheffield Shield final

Hobart's Blundstone Arena is hosting the final with the Melbourne Cricket Ground unavailable due to the ongoing World Cup. Led by Player of the Year and the competition's leading run scorer, skipper Adam Voges, the Warriors are hoping for a better ... >> view original

Moo Brew throwing lane party in Hobart

“We want to showcase some of Tasmania's local producers that we use in our everyday life but who don't necessarily get the credit they deserve.” And there may be more partying to come. “If the pilot event is well received, we may well look at doing ... >> view original