Instagram #Empty Trend Comes to Tazmania's MONA and other top stories

Instagram #Empty Trend Comes to Tazmania'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

Violent Femmes discuss their first new songs in 15 years

In January 2012, Ritchie booked the Dolls for MONA FOMA, a music festival presented by the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania, where Ritchie has lived since 2008. When an act was needed at the last minute, the Dolls suggested they play the ... >> 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

Tasmania's Dark Mofo 2015 lineup announced

Last year, Dark Mofo attracted more than 130,000 people to events across 10 days in Hobart on the island state of Tasmania. This year, Dark Mofo is also spreading around the state, with performances from around 250 artists hailing from a dozen ... >> view original

From Melbourne to Hobart on a tall ship

An eight-day cruise from Melbourne to Hobart on the replica tall ship Enterprize had conjured images of billowing sails and skimming majestically over water; of wonders calmly admired while inhaling fresh briny air on a sundrenched deck. But back in ... >> view original

Tasmanian realtor accused of falsely advertising 'waterfront', 'riverside ...

The Hobart Magistrates Court heard the Huonville real estate firm advertised a house in Franklin as a riverside property in July last year. Following a complaint from the general public, Consumer Affairs Tasmania investigated and found it was separated ... >> view original

Tas takes out top tourism awards

Tasmania has been the big winner at the 2015 national tourism awards, taking out 10 of the top prizes. The winners of the Qantas-sponsored Australian Tourism Awards were announced on Friday night in Adelaide. Tasmanian operators claimed 10 gold ... >> view original

Eye on the tiger: trailing the elusive thylacine

... Mountains of New South Wales, the property maintenance contractor has been bringing groups to Tasmania for more than a decade hoping to prove that surviving thylacines still roam the island state, where the last known specimen died in a Hobart zoo ... >> view original

Schofield apologises 'unreservedly' to Tasmania for bitter putdowns

He said, despite his remarks, his enthusiasm for Tasmania should not be doubted. He said he struggled to shake the resentment he felt over the Hobart festival's demise and acknowledged his words touched a raw nerve in Tasmania. "I should have been as ... >> view original

Tasmania: Australia's scenic, historic island (Part One)

Tasmania seems secluded from most of Australia, probably because the island is physically separated from the rest of the country. Yet flights to Hobart, its capital, are frequent from Australia's major cities. Our flight from Sydney took slightly less ... >> view original