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Tasmania will have its first female police commissioner when a decorated officer with more than three decades of experience assumes the top job this year.

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Polo ponies death case delay bid rejected

A bid to delay a court hearing relating to the deaths of 16 polo ponies, found dead after crossing Bass Strait on a ferry, has been rejected.

AAP

Launceston's Albert Van Zetten the 10th mayor not standing in October poll

Ten of Tasmania's 29 mayors will not recontest the role in coming local government elections as the sector faces challenges and changes ahead.

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Wife of missing man Bruce Fairfax faces seven-year wait or Supreme Court for death certificate

The wife of a man missing since 2017 says she feels hamstrung by the fact she cannot obtain a death certificate and move forward with her life, almost five years after they became separated on a bush path in Tasmania.

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'I left with the kids and ended up homeless with them': the nightmare of housing wait lists for people fleeing domestic violence

People who flee domestic violence desperately need safe, affordable and secure housing. Our study of people on housing waiting lists in New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland found private rental housing isn’t an option when leaving domestic violence.

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Tasmanian premier's statue could go

Hobart City Council has been told to vote to remove the statue of a former Tasmanian premier who mutilated the corpse of an Aboriginal man in 1869.

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McEvoy milestone as Hawthorn battle Suns

Hawthorn captain Ben McEvoy will bring up his 250th match when his team takes on Gold Coast in Tasmania on Saturday afternoon.

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Hydrowood salvages drowned logs from the bottom of Tasmania's Lake Pieman and turns them into hardwood timber

For Andrew Morgan and Dave Wise, a chance meeting at a university bar led not only to a long friendship, but also the creation of Australia's first drowned timber company.

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Storms, wild winds batter five states, territories

Five states and territories face another day of damaging winds and dangerous surf, with conditions are expected to worsen for millions of Australians.

The New Daily

Tasmania's State of the Environment report is overdue and last seen 13 years ago. So where is it?

Tasmania's State of the Environment report is due every five years, a reporting requirement set down in legislation. Here's what we can find out about why the report was last seen in 2009.

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Ventilation key to battling COVID-19, experts say, urging Australia to do more

It might be the middle of a Tasmanian winter, but that doesn't stop this primary school making the most of fresh outdoor air to help keep COVID-19 at bay — something more places should be doing, experts say.

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Australian Explorers Set New Record for Deepest Cave

A team of Australian cave explorers descended in a 400-meter-deep cave chain in Tasmania region, bringing a new record to their country, according to the German News Agency. “The team successfully connected a newly discovered cave, named ‘Delta Variant,’ to the Niggly/Growling Swallet Cave system, taking the record for Australia’s…

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Nurses strike in Launceston as government offers last-minute proposal

A last-minute proposal from the state government to improve working conditions for Tasmania's nurses fails to stop a strike from going ahead at the Launceston General Hospital.

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Calls for more social housing and higher allowances for Tasmania's homeless youth

Layla was only in year 8 when she found herself on the streets. It was an incident she does not want to detail that prompted her to seek a different path — to a place where she now helps other young people in Tasmania.

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Negative Tas emissions 'envy of nation'

Tasmania has maintained net negative emissions for seven consecutive years, the state government's latest greenhouse gas report shows.

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Vulnerable veterans 'being left at risk'

Tasmania's isolation is a major challenge for organisations offering support to former defence personnel in the island state, a royal commission has been told.

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Eastside Lutheran College's former finance officer pleads to stealing over $144k from Tasmanian school

The former employee of a private school in Tasmania's south has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $150,000 from the college during the course of her employment.

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Tasmanian rural council's $8.2m plan for agricultural town's main street met with tractor protest

It will add to the town's charm, they said. It will increase safety and "make a positive contribution to the overall street", they said. Well, if this Tasmanian local council thought their $8.2 million plan for Longford's main drag was going to be welcomed, a gaggle of grumpy farmers in…

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Explorers just uncovered Australia’s deepest cave. A hydrogeologist explains how they form

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee–Florentine karst area. Its depth just beat out its predecessor, the Niggly Cave, by about…

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Migrant caught masturbating in his car faces deportation, but his lawyer says the punishment doesn't fit the crime

A migrant caught masturbating in a car could be deported from Australia if he is put on a Tasmanian sex offender's register. Lawyers and psychologists say a method used to determine the man's risk of reoffending has been misused.

ABC News

Market pain ahead as Tasmania fights losing battle on blueberry rust

Biosecurity officials give up trying to contain a catastrophic plant fungus in Tasmania — and this farmer says it will be disastrous for his organic blueberry business.

ABC News

Tasmania's hydro storage drops below 'prudent level' after dry months, but experts not concerned yet

The spectre of near-empty dams looms large in the minds of Tasmanians who recall the 2016 electricity crisis — but despite coming off the driest summer to autumn period on record and falling levels heading into drier months, experts say there is no need for alarm.

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Explorers uncover Australia's deepest known cave in southern Tasmania, breaking previous record by 4 metres

After more than six months of preparation and 14 hours underground, a group of cavers abseil, crawl, squeeze and climb more than 400 metres underground in southern Tasmania, uncovering Australia's deepest known cave.

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Tasmanian government and UNESCO seemingly at odds over national park development: Greens

"Confused" is how Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O'Connor says she feels about the way the Tasmanian government is continuing to support development in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

ABC News

Tasmanian cavers head underground in a bid to find Australia's new deepest cave

Imagine dangling from a rope "higher than tallest part of Sydney Harbour Bridge" — in the dark. Add to that squeezing through rocky gaps, deep underground. That's what a group of explorers are planning to do in order to prove Australia has a new deepest cave in southern Tasmania.

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