ISIS message on Tas airport website and other top stories

ISIS message on Tas airport website

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

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

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

... 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. Kidman and David Wenham ... >> 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

Hobart City Council backs gay marriage in unanimous vote, calls for Federal ...

Chairwoman of Rainbow Communities Tas Inc, Deidre Murray, spoke to Monday night's council meeting and said the vote was "great support at ground level". "It's very pleasing to see that the local council does realise that there is a lot of gay families ... >> 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

Battery-powered underwear to help overcome Tasmania's thermal barriers to ...

"It doesn't really matter where you are, you just have to be warm," Ms Ortins told Ryk Goddard on 936 ABC Hobart. "Depending on what the water temperature is you change what you wear underneath it, but I almost always wear what is called a dry suit. >> view original

Epic battle with 'record' fish attracts thousands to game fishing team's ...

Those updates started to get shared by dozens of Facebook users and eventually thousands of people from around the world were following the fight off the coast of Tasmania. ... Users like Tracey-Lee Kleeman from Hobart posted messages of support. >> view original

Couple get suspended sentence after elderly woman freezes to death in ...

A Queensland couple has been given two-year suspended sentences for causing the death of an elderly woman by making her sleep in a shipping container in freezing conditions in Tasmania. Janet Mackozdi, 77, died of hypothermia after spending the night ... >> view original