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

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

Hobart man sentenced to 18 months in prison for trafficking ice

In 2007, he was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a large-scale meth enterprise importing the drug into Tasmania on the Spirit of Tasmania. Justice Alan Blow said he could see no reason for Billinghurst committing the crime other than ... >> 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

Traffic flows again after Bridgewater Bridge malfunction fixed

A computer malfunction which caused the Bridgewater Bridge near Hobart to become stuck has been fixed and traffic is flowing again. The bridge which feeds traffic on one of Tasmania's busiest roads, the Midland Highway, was out of action for more than ... >> view original

Why pearl company Atlas entered the perfume and cannabis businesses

For most of its 25 years, Essential Oils of Tasmania has been a price taker, selling drums of botanical extract to mulitnational flavour companies - however its development of a world-first perfume based on pearl extract, and a push to enter the ... >> 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

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

Major Antarctic ice survey reveals dramatic melting

"The fact that the rate of their thinning is increasing is alarming," says Ben Galton-Fenzi from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. The accelerating ice shelf loss in West Antarctica is mostly down to warmer water flowing underneath, says ... >> view original