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

Artefacts dating back to Tasmania's first settlers uncovered

Archaeologists have found dozens of artefacts which date back to the first years of 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 artefacts ... >> view original

Hiking Australia's Great Ocean Road

The four-day Freycinet Experience Walk (0061 3 6223 7565; freycinet.com.au; £1,235 per person from Hobart) through Freycinet National Park on Tasmania's east coast covers some of the loveliest landscapes in the southerly island. The walk starts from ... >> view original

Record Store Day releases at the top of our list - Omaha World

These four songs — “Happy New Year Next Year,” “Love Love Love Love Love,” “Good At/For Nothing” and “Fast Horses” — were recorded in Hobart, Tasmania, over the 2014 holidays. Thank you for reading and relying on Omaha.com for your news and ... >> 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

There are heaps of bogans in the arts. Leo Schofield just hasn't noticed yet

Leo Schofield has now apologised for recent remarks declaring the state of Tasmania a home of “dregs, bogans and third-generation morons”. The director of the Baroque music festival, once of Hobart but now relocated to Brisbane, has said that he ... >> 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 stalker on bail when he made 200 calls to elderly woman, court hears

A Hobart court has heard a 41-year-old man was on bail for similar offences when he made 200 calls to an elderly woman living alone. Gary Bru Espinosa of Glenorchy was in the magistrates court on Thursday morning to face one charge of stalking and five ... >> view original

Premiers have been beyond the pale on the GST

Terry Stokes, West Hobart, Tas. The behaviour of the state premiers over the GST has been Academy Award standard. It is not surprising the Labor premiers are behaving this way, but for Liberal leaders to succumb to this gang mentality is beyond the pale. >> view original

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

Hollywood actors, including Nicole Kidman, have descended on a Tasmanian farm to film Lion, the story of a Hobart man who used Google Earth to find his Indian family. Saroo Brierley was separated from his family as a young boy and adopted from an ... >> view original