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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

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

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

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

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

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

National Youth Week highlights Hobart laneways

Hobart laneways will continue to be revitalised this Friday evening when Light Up the Lane takes place for the second consecutive year in National Youth Week. The recently renovated public space of Mathers Place between Criterion and Bathurst Streets ... >> view original

Hobart City Council will lobby for federal conscience vote on marriage equality

“Almost 40 councils now across Australia have passed a motion similar to that which Hobart supported. “I expect there to be more in other states and certainly more in Tasmania.” The Tasmanian of the Year said advocates would continue to directly lobby ... >> view original

Anti-abortion campaigner Graeme Preston arrested again for protesting outside ...

Preston was the first to be charged under Tasmania's Reproductive Health Act for a series of anti-abortion protests in March last year, but police prosecutors dropped the case the day it was due to go to hearing. Outside the court this afternoon ... >> view original

Update from Jake Lilley – Australian Finn Sailor

It was great to all work really well in a team environment and we excelled in some tricky racing conditions on the Derwent River in Hobart, Tasmania. We came away from the week as both State and National Champions, with a list of things to improve on ... >> view original