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On March 30, 1975, Carol Maney woke up on a hospital gurney. She was hazy and confused, utterly disconnected from…
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 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…
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,…
Tasmanian sparkling wine festival Effervescence has closed for its fifth year. Twenty-four events around the state over the course of a…
After 11 months delay, Tasmanian women are set to be able to access a surgical abortion service. Hampton Park Womens Health…
To outsiders, Tasmania can already seem like a fantastical place. Alien landscapes sprout all over the central highlands, with cushion…
With all the late night study sessions, last-minute assignment writing, and just general stress that comes with uni, we put…
Originally published through Global Hobo.
At the Men’s Shed building on Lockhart Street, Adelong, change is in the air. Instead of the usual bunch of…
A NEW five-year NSW Wild Dog Management Strategy that identifies specific actions to minimise wild dog impacts in the state…
The National Parks and Wildlife Service has been under a storm of criticism from local farmers for not funding a…
Tumut has the twelfth highest rate of domestic violence related assaults per head of population in NSW, the latest statistics…
Longtime Tumut resident Harold ‘Wom’ Oddy has, as of Saturday, lived 100 years on this Earth. For much of that…
Local landholders and agency representatives filled the Golf Club on Wednesday night to hear from Dr Guy Ballard, DPI wild…
The votes have been finalised and the preferences allocated, and you officially have your first ever Snowy Valleys Council: Bruce…
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of Page 2 in this paper that the offence of ‘steal…
This interview was done as part of a series on Monash alumni, published through the School of Media, Film, and…
This week’s episode of investigate ABC program ‘Four Corners’ focused on dodgy practices in the waste and recycling industry. The…
Twelve months ago, Leonie Denhert had her hands full running her successful contract cleaning business. She lived in her own…
Audrey McKenzie has served on local government in Tumut for 24 years. She said the stakes have never been higher…
John Larter’s primary occupation as Tumut’s leading paramedic comes through in his priorities for the new Snowy Valleys Council. The…
Tumut is in the midst of a health crisis. There is no issue with the health professionals that currently work…
Andrianna Benjamin started her first business when she was 13. Owning and running her own shoe store, while completing her…
Robert and Shirley Giddings have brought a bit of cheer in this gloomy winter to Broughton Street, and all it…
It was packed house at Club Tumut on Monday afternoon as local residents seized the opportunity to air their complaints…
Rail trails and fees debated at Tumbarumba meeting Residents also wanted to know where the candidates stood on the…
Tumut Family Medical Centre Practice Manager Janette Wilson said she hopes the recent focus on health has helped the community…
Those who attended the public meeting with Federal Shadow Health Minister Catherine King on Monday have mixed feelings about how…
Cabramurra Public School will not close even though plans to remove the town’s permanent workforce remain in place, the NSW…
For over a year now, Khancoban has been without a General Store. It closed its doors in February 2016, and…
Top two take clear lead Saturday was a historic day in Tumut, Tumbarumba and surrounds. It was the first time…
Tumut Public School Tournament of Minds Coach Roslyn Castle said there were “a few tears” last weekend, after the girls…
Local health services have been pursuing government avenues to get a full-time anaesthetist in Tumut for months now, and so…
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of Page 2 in this paper that the offence of…
Julia Ham is a suitable candidate for the Snowy Valleys based on location alone: she lives smack-bang in the middle,…
Bruce Wright is a familiar face for just about everybody in Tumbarumba. He’s been a member of the Rotary Club…
An anti-merger protest in Tumbarumba on Thursday saw hundreds of people gather in the Memorial Hall for a public meeting,…
Cate Cross’s working and community history reads like an ‘100 ways to care for others’ guide. Before moving to Tumut…
Former Tumut Shire Councillor Margaret Isselmann has decided her work on council isn’t quite done yet – she’s nominated again…
No one knows the importance of a good family – or the corrosive effect of the lack of one –…
Tumbarumba’s Save Our Shire group will speak in person with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian today (Tuesday), in a meeting secured…
For Batlow resident and businessman Cor Smit, the Tumut-Tumbarumba council merger is an opportunity. He believes this whole region has…
You can never have too much of a good thing. Just ask Geoff Pritchard: after 17 years total on the…
Notably more people participate in voluntary work in the Snowy Valleys than the NSW and Australian averages, data from the…
Half of all workers reliant on forest industry A new, in-depth study of the region’s forest industry has concluded…
The independent review into the decision to place former Tumut parish priest Father Brian Hassett next to a Canberra primary…
The Adelong Men’s Shed is in crisis, according to the man synonymous with its name, Ian Elliott. He started the…
A post in the Facebook group ‘Tumutians’ asking for local legends has drawn over 100 comments, as current and former…
The National Parks and Wildlife Service arranged for a trapper to work at Beryl Ryan’s Talbingo property last weekend and…
NSW Shadow Attorney-General Paul Lynch has taken up the issue of steadily eroding court services in the Tumut area with…
Another Tumut-area farmer has spoken up against the inaction of authorities to do something about the wild dogs wreaking havoc…
Break and enter dwellings are up 200 per cent in Tumut, according to the latest statistics from the NSW Bureau…
The Tumut Takes 2 performers have pulled off a phenomenal feat. Months of rehearsing and a packed calendar of fundraising…
The planning stages for a new Tumut Hospital will begin this year, with the NSW government responding to decades of…
Originally published through Global Hobo. I’ve been on this train for 28 hours and have spent countless more jolting across…
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE IN THIS STORY Beryl Ryan of Boraig Station, Talbingo, has lost all of the lambs she had…
Originally published through Global Hobo.
The Snowy Hydro team has been left a little bewildered by the media attention surrounding a senate estimates session last…
There was cause for celebration in Batlow last week: the growers that make up the Batlow Fruit Cooperative unanimously voted…
Visy’s automation department is capable of producing and selling an impressive array of machines. Their robots can package goods; form,…
The $50 million expansion of Tumut’s Visy Pulp and Paper Mill has been completed, and all they are waiting for…
Batlow apple grower Greg Mouat said he was as shocked as the rest of the country to see the wastage…
Excavation works are due to begin near Tantangara Dam in “four to five weeks,” Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad told…
One hundred per cent of the growers that make up the Batlow Fruit Cooperative, known as Batlow Apples, have voted…
We were staying in a nomad camp in the middle of the steppe. There were about 10 bottles of vodka…
A Canberra woman, at the end of her life and suffering from dementia, has donated her overlocker sewing machine to…
Goobarragandra farmer Lindsay Buckley has lost 12 sheep in two weeks to wild dogs. His is one of the worst-hit…
Batlow Apples has been a cooperative for 96 years, remaining grower owned and operated in all that time. However, the…
The board of the Batlow Fruit Cooperative – known as Batlow Apples – is recommending to its members that the…
Five hundred jobs are expected to come to the region starting from next year, with the construction of an expansion…
Turnbull drops in to Talbingo Residents of Talbingo were surprised with an uncommon site up in the mountains on Thursday:…
Fractured parish critical of church process: Archbishop here for meeting to discuss Father Brian Hassett About 100 members of the Tumut…
Father Brian Hassett (right), former Tumut parish priest, pictured here with former Tumut mayor John Larter. TIMELINE OF EVENTS 1990…
The autumn leaves are starting to turn in Canberra, and for Secretary of the Department of Education and Training, Dr…
