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| UpdatedThere are claims some Tasmanian schools could be breaching the Anti-Discrimination Act by failing to adequately support students with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, health, education, access-to-education, discrimination, community-and-society, tas
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Australia's high-tech research ship sails from Hobart on its maiden scientific voyage, hoping to help discover more pieces in the climate change jigsaw.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, research-organisations, tas, antarctica
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| UpdatedSoldiers and others who served in Afghanistan as a part of Operation Slipper are officially welcomed home in parades across the country.
Topics: veterans, defence-forces, defence-industry, community-and-society, police, public-sector, australia, sydney-2000, canberra-2600, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000, hobart-7000, perth-6000, darwin-0800, townsville-4810
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WA does not want to let a second successive chance at a Sheffield Shield title slip when it meets Victoria in Hobart.
Topics: cricket, sport, hobart-7000, tas, melbourne-3000, vic, perth-6000, wa, australia
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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