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Group claims IS message on Tas website - Yahoo7

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

Exploring Tasmania, Part 2

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

Enloe grad Wayne Burden honored by faraway Chico State

... are people around who can recall his deeds while playing for the Bears. If you hop a flight to Hobart, Tasmania, his picture is still on the wall from his days with the Hobart Tassie Devils. “That was another world,” said Burden, a 1974 graduate of ... >> view original

ISIS message on Tas airport website - The West Australian

The Hobart International Airport website has been shut down after it was hacked and defaced with a statement supporting the radical Islamist group ISIS, also known as Islamic State or IS. Tasmania Police are investigating and have been monitoring ... >> view original

Australia: Chinese supermarket chain to work closer with Tasmania

Other members of the Tasmania delegation included Lord Mayor of Hobart City, Sue Hickey, Launceston City Mayor, Albert Van Zetten, Tasmanian Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Trade, Adam Brooks, and representatives of several ... >> view original

Australian airport website hacked by ISIS - Al

Police said hackers appeared to have targeted the web host used by the Hobart International Airport in Tasmania and not the facility itself, and no direct threats were made. "A message placed on the site contained a statement supporting ISIS ... >> 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

Blueberry Tea Shows Promise As Treatment For Diabetes, Researchers Say

Scientists at Menzies Institute in Hobart are trying to study the ability of blueberry tea in reducing insulin dependence. Gerard Spicer is a diabetic who has been fighting type 2 diabetes mellitus for 13 years and is heavily dependent on insulin ... >> view original

Instagram #Empty Trend Comes to Tasmania's MONA

The latest institution to embrace the movement and popular Instagram hashtag #empty is the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Hobart, Tasmania. We can all agree that the art museum experience would be much more enjoyable without the crowds, but ... >> view original

Raw Cheese Tasmania

PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Raw milk cheese lovers have had a big win, with the laws banning the production and sale of most raw milk cheeses in Australia finally being changed. Now, cheese-makers will be able to produce and sell what some consider ... >> view original