Rotarians are encouraging the Tasmanian community to support efforts to eradicate polio today on World Polio Day. Rotary says thanks to their international ‘End Polio Now’ campaign, the once-rampant worldwide epidemic is now nearing ‘complete eradication,’ only confined to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Roslyn Teirney, a representative of Rotary Tasmania, says that even though cases remain […]
Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 4:50amA Hobart man who got caught up in a Police surveillance operation while out buying cocaine to share with his friends three days before Christmas in 2018 will most likely not spend any time in jail. In his passing comments on the sentence, Chief Justice Alan Blow said then 23-year-old Jordyn Jack Webb visited drug dealers from […]
Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 4:00amNot-for-profit organisation Families Tasmania has gone into liquidation after over 100 years due to financial difficulties and operating at a deficit. Originally established as the Child Welfare Association in 1917, the organisation had a primary objective of reducing the high infant mortality rate, establishing a sterilised milk supply for babies and pioneering the first child […]
Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 3:00amTasmanian households will see an increase in electricity bills this year, with prices predicted to be between $235 to $265 more expensive compared to last year, according to a new report. The St Vincent de Paul Society found that average consumption households on tariff 31 can expect to pay around $3,130 for electricity this year. […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 6:30pmMore wild weather is expected to hit Tasmania tomorrow as the BOM forecast severe and damaging wind gusts of up to 100km/h. A strong cold front moving southeastwards across the state and a deepening low pressure system over the eastern Great Australian Bight is expected to fuel the storm. The BOM say northwesterly winds with […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 4:45pmThe Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2024 expanded concert season, featuring collaborations with local musicians, intimate chamber sessions and live pub-style gigs. With the aim of creating a concert season ‘for all Tasmanians’, Chief Executive Officer Caroline Sharpen said she hoped every performance would be a “special, emotion-filled adventure”. “The 2024 season includes unique events […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 4:00pmA recount to find Tasmania’s newest member of parliament, following the resignation of the former member for Clark, has officially begun. Elise Archer left the Liberal Party and her ministerial positions at the start of the month amidst allegations of bullying and the release of leaked text messages in which she said she was ‘sick […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 1:10pmA Hobart man says his life has been ‘turned upside down’ after winning over $1.8 million in Saturday’s Lotto. Tasmania’s newest millionaire, he was one of 11 division one winners nationwide in Saturday’s draw and took home a total prize of $1,818,181.82. When Lotto officials called him on Monday morning, he said that he had ‘absolutely […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 12:30pmTasmanian aged care workers who were among those underpaid more than $2.1 million over a two-year period due to a “payroll error” have now been fully paid back – including interest and superannuation. The Fair Work Ombudsman said both current and former staff working for the aged care services provider Japara Administration Pty Ltd, now Calvary […]
Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 12:00pmA total of 10.5 km of the east coast’s Tasman Highway will have its speed limit reduced by 20km/h in the coming days in an effort to ‘make the road safer.’ Tasmania’s Commissioner for Transport recently approved two reductions from 100km/h to 80km/h on the road, both to the north and south of Swansea. A […]
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