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Homeless and chronically mentally ill people are missing out on end-of-life planning and care, according to new research.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, death, mental-health, health, tas
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A Tasmanian-based mining company seeks approval for a new magnetite iron ore mine at Rogetta, near Hampshire in the state's north-west.
Topics: mining-rural, rural, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, hampshire-7321, tas
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| UpdatedA project in Tasmania is tackling illiteracy in prison using speech therapy techniques.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, rehabilitation, education, books-literature, hobart-7000, tas, risdon-vale-7016
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Tasmanian Greens Leader Kim Booth throws his support behind a petition by awareness group Angels Hope to make bullying an offence.
Topics: bullying, education, government-and-politics, state-parliament, tas
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| UpdatedA former Calvin Christian School student makes an allegation of sexual misconduct happening at the Hobart school more than 25 years ago.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, secondary-schools, kingston-7050, tas
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Brian Ritchie and Lucky Oceans will play together at a pig farm near Penguin this weekend.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, event, food-and-beverage, penguin-7316
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A King Island cheesemaker, off the north-west coast of Tasmania, says new freight subsidies for overseas exports could see more local dairy products heading into Asia.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, agribusiness, dairy-production, trade, king-island-7256
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| UpdatedBurnie writer Marjorie Davey publishes her first full-length novel at the age of 95, telling the story of Port Arthur's convict boys.
Topics: books-literature, history, history-education, port-arthur-7182
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Police have launched a second attempt to charge an anti-abortion protester under Tasmania's Reproductive Health Act.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, abortion, health, hobart-7000
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A Melbourne man is facing a charge of attempted murder after a incident in a Hobart suburb.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, rosetta-7010, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedHobart's Victoria Gunpowder Magazine looks set to be the first heritage building to be handed over to the local council.
Topics: history, building-and-construction, defence-and-national-security, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedThe vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania says regional campuses will struggle to survive in a deregulated environment without financial support.
Topics: university-and-further-education, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedA move to ditch the word "wilderness" from Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) management plan will damage the state's brand, the tourism industry says.
Topics: tourism, states-and-territories, national-parks, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania's reputation for world class whisky is cemented with awards in London for a local distiller and pioneer Bill Lark inducted into an international Hall of Fame.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, tas
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The Tasmanian Government is in talks with Federal Group about breaking its monopoly on casinos to allow the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) to open a gambling venue.
Topics: gambling, states-and-territories, tas
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The Tasmanian Opposition intensifies its attacks on the Government's Buy Local policy, as ministers produce new statistics in their defence of the program.
Topics: government-and-politics, work, states-and-territories, state-parliament, tas
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| UpdatedVolunteers return to Hobart with almost 80,000 pieces of rubbish they collected from remote beaches of Tasmania's west coast.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, conservation, environment, tas
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| UpdatedThe latest tourism figures show holidaymakers spent more than $1 billion for the first time in 2014, an increase of almost 20 per cent on the previous year.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, tourism, tas
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government moves to give religious schools the right to reject students whose families do not share their faith.
Topics: education, religion-and-beliefs, discrimination, community-and-society, schools, secondary-schools, gays-and-lesbians, states-and-territories, tas
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The Tasmanian Government's reversal of its predecessor's sawmiller exit payout scheme is referred to the state's anti-corruption watchdog.
Topics: government-and-politics, timber, tas
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A land rehabilitation expert is calling for greater policing of controversial four-wheel drive tracks to protect Aboriginal heritage sites on Tasmania's west coast.
Topics: rural, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environment-education, environmental-management, arthur-river-7330, marrawah-7330, tas
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A forensic pathologist tells a double murder trial in Launceston that it was obvious both victims suffered multiple stab wounds, but he could not determine which wound had caused the death of one of the deceased.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, ravenswood-7250, tas
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A Hobart man says he was "taking a leak" near a pine tree where police located thousand of dollars worth of methylamphetamine.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, hobart-7000, tas
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Tasmanian Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff says quarantine officers seized more than seven tonnes of produce during a trial of new procedures on the Spirit of Tasmania.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, quarantine, sea-transport, state-parliament, devonport-7310
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The Tasmanian city of Burnie wins $1 million in a national competition to tackle entrenched social problems and reduce unemployment.
Topics: regional-development, mining-rural, regional, burnie-7320