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Rugged coastal King Island golf courses are above par

Rugged coastal King Island golf courses are above par

King Island in Bass Strait boasts two of the best golf courses in Australia and they are proving to be major drawcards for domestic and international tourists.

Activist jailed for anti-logging, mining protests

Activist jailed for anti-logging, mining protests

Activist jailed for anti-logging, mining protests

Activist jailed for anti-logging, mining protests

A Tasmanian activist has been jailed for three months for breaching a suspended sentence during protests at mining and logging sites.

Staff shortages force youth lockdowns, inquiry told

Staff shortages force youth lockdowns, inquiry told

Staff shortages force youth lockdowns, inquiry told

Staff shortages force youth lockdowns, inquiry told

An inquiry has been told staff shortages at Tasmania's youth detention centre have resulted in lockdowns during the past month.

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Greens leader quits in latest state political shake-up

Greens leader quits in latest state political shake-up

Cassy O'Connor has stood down as leader of Tasmania's Greens and is giving up her seat, but intends to run for the state's upper house.

Fresh call for information on unsolved pub murder

Fresh call for information on unsolved pub murder

Police have renewed calls for information about the 2013 murder of a man outside a pub on the Tasmania's remote west coast.

Woman sues state government over alleged child abuse

Woman sues state government over alleged child abuse

Tasmania's government and a netball association are facing a civil lawsuit over alleged child sexual abuse by a nurse and first-aid officer.

Search for Belgian bushwalker in Tasmania suspended

Search for Belgian bushwalker in Tasmania suspended

Tasmanian police have formally suspended the search for missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer who was last seen more than three weeks ago.

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Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Ongoing debate and political upheaval around Tasmania's entry to the AFL won't distract the new club's inaugural chair Grant O'Brien.

Paramedic's death prompts Ambulance Tasmania overhaul

Paramedic's death prompts Ambulance Tasmania overhaul

Paramedic's death prompts Ambulance Tasmania overhaul

Paramedic's death prompts Ambulance Tasmania overhaul

A coroner has handed down 13 recommendations for Ambulance Tasmania after a paramedic with long-standing drug and mental health issues took his own life.

German backpacker who killed sex worker to be deported

German backpacker who killed sex worker to be deported

German backpacker who killed sex worker to be deported

German backpacker who killed sex worker to be deported

A German backpacker who killed Tasmanian woman Jingai Zhang during sex is set to be released from jail before being deported back to his home country.

Man intoxicated when killed in firework explosion

Man intoxicated when killed in firework explosion

Man intoxicated when killed in firework explosion

Man intoxicated when killed in firework explosion

A Tasmanian coroner has released findings after a man died when a commercial firework exploded in front of him.

One conviction set aside over pony deaths on ferry

One conviction set aside over pony deaths on ferry

One conviction set aside over pony deaths on ferry

One conviction set aside over pony deaths on ferry

The Spirit of Tasmania ferry operator will get a chance to have one of its 29 convictions quashed over the deaths of 16 polo ponies.

Police search for missing teen narrows to mystery car

Police search for missing teen narrows to mystery car

Police search for missing teen narrows to mystery car

Police search for missing teen narrows to mystery car

Tasmanian police are appealing for information on a silver car as they search for 14-year-old Shyanne-Lee Tatnell, who has been missing since April.

Police shift focus to waterfall in search for tourist

Police shift focus to waterfall in search for tourist

Police shift focus to waterfall in search for tourist

Police shift focus to waterfall in search for tourist

Crews are rappelling from a viewing platform to search around a waterfall for Belgian tourist Celine Cremer, missing in northwest Tasmania for almost two weeks.

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Tasmania outlaws Nazi salute, symbol in 'clear message'

The island state has locked in reforms banning the Nazi salute and symbol in a move the government says sends a clear message against hate.

Visa overstayer secretly buried amid prosecution fears

A coroner could not determine what health issue killed a Malaysian woman who overstayed her visa and whose body was found buried on a Tasmanian property.

Missing Belgian woman feared dead in Tasmanian bush

Belgian tourist Celine Cremer couldn't have survived recent weather conditions while exposed in Tasmania's wilderness, police say.

Tas couple jailed after shooting dead former son-in-law

Cedric Harper Jordan and Noelene June Jordan have been found guilty of murdering their former son-in-law, Shane Geoffrey Barker.

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Parole loophole closed for Tasmanian prisoners

A parole loophole allowing criminals to spend less time behind bars has been scrapped after laws passed the Legislative Council.

Midwinter festival Dark Mofo posts attendance record

Dark Mofo has set an attendance record, with more than 427,000 people flocking to venues and 100,000 tickets sold for the Hobart winter festival.

Premier admits more work to do selling stadium deal

Tasmania's premier has appeared before an inquiry examining the planning behind a controversial $715 million waterfront stadium in Hobart.

Jailed pedophile priest admits abusing more boys

Jailed pedophile and former priest David Edwin Rapson will be sentenced in July for sexually abusing three boys in Tasmania in the early 1980s.

Tassie premier orders government transparency report

A report into handling cabinet-in-confidence documents will be prepared by the Tasmanian government after criticism about their level of transparency.

Hobart festivalgoers, Antarctic crew take icy dip

Hobart winter festival Dark Mofo has held its annual naked winter solstice swim, while Australia's expeditioners in Antarctica took their own icy plunge.

Premier pressured over Hobart stadium advice

Tasmania's minority Liberal government is under increasing pressure in relation to releasing departmental advice about controversial plans for a stadium.

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