Artefacts dating back to Tasmania's first European settlers uncovered and other top stories

Artefacts dating back to Tasmania's first European settlers uncovered

Archaeologists have found dozens of artefacts which date back to the first years of European settlement in Hobart. Gun flint, clay pipes and arrowhead bricks have all been uncovered at the Montpelier Retreat site, which is soon to be developed. The ... >> view original

Group claims responsibility for Hobart airport website hack ISIS support message

A group has claimed responsibility for hacking the Hobart International Airport website and posting a statement supporting the radical Islamist group ISIS, also known as Islamic State or IS. Tasmania Police say messages identical to the one that ... >> view original

Lion: Tasmanian farmer hosts Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel for filming of Saroo ...

... his family as a young boy and adopted from an Indian orphanage at the age of five by Hobart couple Ian and Sue Brierley. His book about the experience of finding his family using childhood memories and Google Earth is now being filmed in Tasmania. >> view original

No money on offer to save Tas jobs: Abetz

The government remains focused on creating job opportunities for Australians, Senator Abetz said, and infrastructure improvements including upgrades to Hobart's airport and the state's Midlands Highway were among mechanisms supporting business and ... >> view original

Hobart City Council backs gay marriage with no opposition

Launceston City Council, also in Tasmania, recently debated a similar motion but it failed. Despite this, other regional or rural local government areas in Australia have shown official support for marriage equality. These include Geelong, Ballarat ... >> 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

Exploring Tasmania, Part Two

Thus, transportation shifted to the more remote Tasmania. The residents of Hobart, Tasmania's capital, also didn't want a convict prison close by, so in the 1820s the area that would come to be known as Port Arthur was chosen as the destination of new ... >> view original

Welfare groups warn more struggling families will be turned away

Hobart City Mission has opened a cafe this year as a social enterprise, and offer emergency relief clients coffee and meal vouchers there. UnitingCare Tasmania is developing more partnerships with the private sector and has called for donations from ... >> view original

Brother of Lucille Butterworth appeals for information from the public

The brother of a Hobart woman missing since 1969 has launched an appeal for anyone with information to come forward. The disappearance of Lucille Butterworth is one of Tasmania's oldest suspected murder cases. The 20-year-old was last seen at a bus ... >> view original

Fishermen eye Senate seat over trawlers

A group of Tasmanian fishermen frustrated by what they say is a lack of action by the federal government to limit the operations of super-trawlers, plan to register their own political party and take their fight to Canberra. Hobart-based Kevin Harkins ... >> view original