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The controversial past of a health clinician, who has treated sports stars, has come to light following one of his…
The director of a health clinic where a man lost consciousness – dying five days later – still doesn’t have…
A music school in one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs is battling its sacked CEO in court after she refused to…
Warning: This article deals with sexual abuse. Read on the NZ Herald
WARNING: Graphic A public masturbator who committed gross sex acts at festivals has been fired from his high-paid job. Read on…
WARNING: Graphic A serial public masturbator who ejaculated on women at festivals, a club and on public transport has been…
WARNING: Graphic A woman promised to care for her ex after he became terminally ill. The condition he was found…
Sydney residents in lockdown are still allowed to travel to regional towns without being tested for one reason, with locals…
A former pastor says he was ‘in shock’ when he learned two former parishioners, including a man he baptised, had…
WARNING: Graphic A man with dementia brutally murdered his wife of more than five decades, after getting drunk on jelly…
A man has been jailed for the murder of his 26-year-old girlfriend, as her family shared their memories of the…
Experts have revealed how NSW and Queensland avoided Covid outbreaks, despite an infected couple going on a four-day road trip…
Warning: This article deals with sexual abuse. Read on news.com.au
Chilling details of an alleged neo-Nazi attack involving 15 to 20 white supremacists against six hikers in regional Victoria have…
A girl who was assaulted by a former MasterChef star has spoken about the incident for the first time, revealing…
The firm responsible for security at a major Victorian hotspot hotel has gone into liquidation as it faces a lawsuit…
Victoria‘s second and longest lockdown was the result of negligence from those running the state’s hotel quarantine program, lawyers for…
Almost 27 years ago a team of fake roadworkers halted and made off with an Armaguard van filled with $2.3m…
A Melbourne IT specialist is suing his ex for defamation after she shared a document with other women he was…
A pilot who crashed a plane into a shopping centre before it burst into flames, killing five, may have had…
A woman who carried out a horrific act to her husband’s face told her daughter ‘I want him to look…
A group of women suing a pharmaceutical giant for selling them contraceptive implants they allege leached nickel and perforated their…
Richard Pusey has torn into the media for reporting on his alleged crimes in a colourful court hearing that did…
Coverage of the 2021 state election in Tasmania. Read on the Daily Telegraph
Controversial billionaire Clive Palmer has been ordered to pay an eighties hair metal band $1.5 million after he ripped off…
A highly-respected Australian icon will be a witness for former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith in a defamation trial, a court has…
A man found guilty of choking his girlfriend to death during an argument has tried to sway his fate by…
A suburban accountant and a grandfather on the age pension have been jailed for a failed scheme to import millions…
The Australian government is facing a United Nations human rights case over its strict border rules, with the health minister…
Public housing tower residents have filed a class action over the lockdown in Victoria, claiming they survived off ‘nuts and…
Warning: This article deals with allegations of sexual abuse. Read on the Herald Sun.
A Liberal senator has been accused of ‘slut-shaming’ Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped inside Parliament, saying she was ‘disgustingly…
An inquest has revealed the brave actions of a sex worker who thought she was going to a routine job,…
A man who sent chilling messages after strangling his girlfriend to death has reacted after a jury found him guilty…
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend got into a heated exchange in court before the jury was told he…
A woman who met her boyfriend online suffered a horror death one month later when she agreed to move in…
Two years ago a live-in couple were supporting each other through their problems – but now one is dead and…
The children of a woman who was killed by her partner in a horrific murder-suicide have broken their silence and…
A man who shot his partner and then killed himself had a second girlfriend who tried to warn his victim…
A police officer realised a man who went on to commit a murder-suicide had access to guns — but when…
A man who committed a horror murder-suicide was “not sick enough” for the public hospital system and couldn’t afford a…
A police raid on a man’s home three years before he committed a horrific murder-suicide revealed ‘peculiar’ possessions, an inquest…
A man stored guns for a friend who went on to commit a horrific murder-suicide because he “felt sorry for…
WARNING: Distressing. Read on news.com.au
WARNING: Distressing. Read at the NZ Herald
The daughter-in-law of Aida Hamed, who drowned this week, said Victoria’s health department committed callous acts when she tried to…
A major study into the causes of Australia’s horror Black Summer bushfires has tallied the losses and painted a scary…
Neighbours have revealed the moment Porsche driver Richard Pusey was allegedly ‘raving’ on his roof before police stormed his home.…
A key witness in an upcoming murder trial cannot be found to give evidence after a jaw-dropping bungle from the…
An accused conwoman allegedly made extraordinary claims to her unsuspecting victims who thought she was a lawyer, a court has…
There’s a push for Victoria to introduce a new law in the wake of a shocking attack where a nurse…
A heroin trafficking boss who smuggled drugs into Australia by getting flight attendants to hide packages in their knickers has…
Family of Kylie Cay, who died from horrific domestic violence injuries, have revealed they are still ‘haunted by thoughts of…
WARNING: Confronting A woman who died of horrific injuries inflicted by her partner made an agonising last phone call begging…
The heroin-trafficking boss known as the ‘Queen of Richmond’ was the ‘apex’ of her syndicate. Now her lawyer has told…
A court has heard the strange and scary behaviour of five boys who died after ingesting a terrifying synthetic drug…
A woman who conned major cash from Tinder dates for a fake blueberry farm fell into problem gambling to pay…
A woman whose body was found in the Melbourne CBD was begged by her family to leave the man who…
Navneet Kaur, 21, has only been in Launceston for a little over a month: just in time for the Covid-19…
Imagine this: somewhere in Tasmanian waters, out of view of the keenest eye onshore, is a centre of industry.…
The Examiner journalist Frances Vinall was announced as the winner of a record four Tasmanian Media Awards on Friday. Ms Vinall’s…
Accessing abortion services has become more difficult at a time when unplanned pregnancies are expected to increase, a Marie Stopes…
Northern Children’s Network general manager Maggie Wilson said the sector was caught on the back foot by the Prime Minister’s…
This isn’t the first time Lincoln Mainsbridge has faced a long stretch of isolation. The Bureau of Meteorology senior weather…
Since it closed to visitors this month, Mona is simply husband-and-wife David Walsh and Kirsha Kaechele’s house. Without the endless…
Skilled migrants who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus will need the help of the community to get…
Aaron Worker has no immune system. None. At all. The young father had a heart transplant almost exactly a year…
Last week Hamish Tranent had two jobs, both in retail. This week he has none. The 20-year-old Bachelor of Science…
In May last year, place-branding expert Todd Babiak was appointed head of Brand Tasmania, newly made a statutory authority and…
The winner of the $50,000 Glover Prize this year was “trying to take the piss” with his award-winning work of…
Exclusive: Doctors are taking a hit to their own hip pockets to provide surgical abortions to Tasmanian women.
Fossil fuel companies have bought Australian politicians.
Tasmanian women undergo either surgical or medical abortions for all sorts of reasons, yet access in the state remains confusing…
Exclusive: Patients are receiving incorrect information and judgement by GPs, a researcher says.
Fans of The Kettering Incident, we have good news: The Gloaming is even better. The limited-run show is a masterclass is sending ribbons…
While all eyes have been on Hobart’s housing crisis in 2019, Launceston’s property market has been quietly growing at comparable…
Michael Warner, 53, planned to retire at Mangana, but now he has nothing.
See the article with photo gallery here. In true Mona Foma fashion, the festival is in the middle of pouring…
“Hobart is over,” Brian Ritchie said on Monday, the concluding day of Mona Foma for 2020. More than 50,000 people…
See the article with photo gallery here. The first time I went to see Clyde Mansell, the former chairman of…
In November, skilled migrants who had moved to Launceston shared the experiences of racism that caused them to leave. There…
Some see contradictions between Christianity and fighting climate change. Perhaps the end of human civilisation through natural disasters is God’s…
Eight out of nine Extinction Rebellion protesters told magistrates they could not agree to undertake 12 months of good behaviour.…
Two Pioneer residents believe their town needs a strategy for its long-term future, separate to the ongoing issue of lead…
The Dorset Council has unanimously voted in favour of treated water at Pioneer. After lead contamination in the town’s drinking…
‘Showrunner’ is an industry term for a writer in control of a television production. Shonda Rhimes, behind Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal; Phoebe Waller-Bridge,…
TasWater will supply treated water to Pioneer if it receives the unanimous support of the Dorset Council, and regulatory approval.…
Pioneer resident Lin Simpson was “ecstatic” to read in The Examiner on Friday that TasWater plans to deliver treated water to the…
Plans for the $50 million Kings Wharf Towers are “dead”, with developer Errol Stewart withdrawing his rezoning application. The announcement…
About 600 people travelled from across the country – and New Zealand – to be on country together at Musselroe…
Sheep are the main source of income for Claudia, Lester and Trent Freeman, but since the river that runs by…
Two deliberately lit fires were brought under control by evening on Thursday, and TFS Regional Chief North Ian Bounds is…
The Department of Health and Human Services should have tested Pioneer residents’ blood for lead, resident and advocate for the…
Bass Labor MHA Michelle O’Byrne said the state government told a Pioneer resident it had no control over the town’s…
Since June 2018, two rideshare apps have started operations in Launceston. Their peer-to-peer model – the same one as AirBnb…
Independent McIntyre MLC Tania Rattray said there had been little support for the town of Pioneer and its lead contamination…
A resident of the North-East town of Pioneer is fighting off a debt collector from TasWater while battling health issues,…
In February 2017, Samiul Ahsan came to Launceston for the first time. A brown-skinned Bangladeshi man in his late twenties,…
Whenever an article about climate change is posted online, you can count on an immediate deluge of climate change denialism…
At 11.30pm on a Saturday night, three yellow-jacketed women are marching steadily down a lamp-lit CBD street. The yellow jackets…
It is incredibly difficult to think about nothing but your most basic needs. Try it, now. Go on. Stop thinking…
When Gabrielle Dewsbury, 17, finishes school, she thinks she’d like to be a doctor. She isn’t 100 per cent sure…
At an unassuming, modern church at 7 Cambridge Street, West Launceston, nine nuns live in complete separation from the rest…
On June 22 last year, Greens senator Larissa Waters moved a motion on black lung disease while breastfeeding her weeks-old…
On May 8, 1945, after six years of unimaginable horror, the world released its breath as Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered…
START-UP: Hi Oscar co-founders Jeremy Webb and Dan Broughton. Picture: Supplied An Australian-owned ride-share app has launched in Launceston. Hi…
In a graveyard in a Northern Midlands town, there lives a species of native orchid that exists nowhere else in…
BOAG’S WARRIOR: Redmond with a suit of armour he made out of Boag’s Red tins. Devotion to the beer is…
DARK AND DANGEROUS: Ideas festival curator Laura Kroetsch. Picture: Supplied Dark Mofo launches on Thursday with its gathering of the…
Ogoh-Ogoh at Dark Mofo 2018. Picture: Dark Mofo Australia’s coolest and coldest festival kicks off on Thursday and runs until…
A Launceston woman thinks she has found an innovative solution to the housing crisis: sleeping pods. Kirsten Ritchie, founder of Strike…
Read the full story with interactive elements on The Examiner website A Legislative Council Inquiry into the future of the…
A Launceston couple has been raising three children in tents after being evicted from a public housing property. Leah and…
A couple raising three children in tents at Mt Pleasant said they were overwhelmed with gratitude for the caring community.…
Aaron Chen is one of five comedians in the Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow, along with Georgie Carroll, Blake Freeman, Ben Knight,…
At last count, the number of people waiting for public housing was the highest it had been for a year.…
Last financial year, 292 new social housing dwellings constructed by the state government were made available to disadvantaged Tasmanians. However,…
Tasmanian potato growers say Simplot is not paying them enough for their vegetables, as they negotiate a new contract with…
Derby house prices have shot up since the development of its trails, and its quick acceleration from sleepy small town…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was tight-lipped on whether the government would wipe Tasmania’s housing debt in a visit to the North and…
Deputy Labor leader Michelle O’Byrne has called for an independent investigation into an $120,000 grant given to the Laughs of…
PART ONE Photosensitivity is a rare condition that, if you haven’t heard of it, sounds like something out of science…
Get rid of fixed-term leases, freeze rent costs, and let renters have pets. That’s how the Tenants’ Union of Tasmania…
Tasmania is the most unaffordable state, relative to income, to rent or buy a house. With the Select Committee on…
A man who bought a property without knowing there was a risk of landslide at the site is calling for…
When Trish Goss uses the phrase “you’re not going to beat me”, she isn’t referring to her battle with cancer,…
Homeless Tasmanians have been taking up offers of shelter from strangers, or inappropriate friends and family, and this has created…
In the lobby of the Charles Mantra Hotel, senator Helen Polley’s media advisor returns from the front counter with two…
On March 30, 1975, Carol Maney woke up on a hospital gurney. She was hazy and confused, utterly disconnected from…
Tasmania Police lockdowns of entire suburbs and towns in the north of the state have generated debate among justice and…
What does it mean to be a man? It’s become a fraught question in the #MeToo era. Stories of men’s…
On any given night in Tasmania, about 1600 people experience homelessness. And that number is only increasing. As Shelter Tas…
A single mother believes a fire in her home could have been prevented if police had acted faster. Taylor Burnie,…
Dorset mayor Greg Howard is celebrating a $40 million election promise from Bass Liberal candidate Bridget Archer, which all but…
The quality of the Sideling road is a major factor in stopping people from moving to Scottsdale and surrounding towns,…
Dorset mayor Greg Howard says there is only one matter he’s been bringing up with the major parties pre-election: the…
Hundreds of people, standing in silence, hands clasped, with their heads bowed and their eyes closed, as candles flickered orange across…
Wendy Askew will be the fourth woman to represent the Tasmanian Liberal Party on a federal level, across both houses,…
Much has been made of the international artists that Mona Foma has brought to Launceston. With hip-hop/RnB icon Neneh Cherry,…
The story on The Examiner website, titled Forced adoption: stolen babies, family secrets, unsolved mysteries, has not been published in print…
Tasmania experienced the hottest, driest January on record – but only 12 days into February, snow has fallen. Snow flurries were…
Analysis from the University of Tasmania’s Fire Centre has found only 3 per cent of the destruction from the 2019…
What is surely Launceston’s staunchest holdout of a bygone era has somehow become one of the city’s coolest venues. The…
In Tasmania’s ancient, human-scarred landscape, the only constant is change. For blacksmith Pete Mattila, that change is a source of inspiration.…
One Miena woman who stayed behind to help this season’s firefighting efforts also lived through the 1967 Black Tuesday fires…
See the article and photo gallery here. In the blackened, Central Highlands town of Miena, everyday life has taken on…
A volunteer firefighter has marked his 50th birthday battling the Great Pine Tier blaze in the Central Highlands. Andrew Nisbet – affectionately…
On a weekend night, Zac Van Tienen can most likely be found at Flamingos Dance Bar, Hobart. But you probably wouldn’t…
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald. This month, after a mini-launch last year in Tasmania’s second-biggest city, Mona Foma…
The company behind the proposed Bell Bay veneer processing mill has defended itself against accusations of human rights abuses and…
Mona Foma’s late-night party, Faux Mo, will run into the early hours of January 18-19. With the tagline ‘small town,…
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