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

Hail pelts Hobart amid the sunshine during freak storm

At one stage, the city was bathed in a giant sun shower while being pelted with hail stones. Duty forecaster Rachel McInerney said the storm was moving to the south-east. "An area of complex low pressure has been around the state all day and that's ... >> 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

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

investors swoop on Hobart

As a trade mission to China spruiks the state as an Antarctic gateway, the head of Knight Frank Tasmania says Asian investors are excited about investing in Hobart to build hotels to meet increasing demand. Chief executive officer Scott Newton said ... >> 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

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

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

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

Is Judith Neilson Australia's greatest arts patron?

... building Phoenix together with informed estimates of what she has spent on building White Rabbit and you come to a figure somewhere above the $70 million it cost David Walsh to build Australia's biggest private art gallery, the Museum of New and ... >> view original