Dive team joins kayaker search

THE search for missing Adelaide kayaker William McCallum is continuing today, with little hope of finding him alive. The police dive team is being briefed and will join the search in Port Esperance in the state's far south. The 27-year-old was last...

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Truck crash causes delays

The rolled truck on the Midland Highway at Bridgewater. Picture: LEIGH WINBURN A CRANE has been called in to clear a truck roll-over on the Midland Highway at Bridgewater. The truck rolled at the Weily Park roundabout -- on the East Derwent Highway...

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Abbott's Tassie sweetener

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has defended the Coalition's $16 million pledge to a privately owned Hobart business, saying "Tasmania is a special case". An Abbott-led government would make the co-investment in the Cadbury chocolate factory as part of...

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Ten guns stolen in North

POLICE are investigating two separate burglaries where firearms were stolen in the past 24 hours. Officers were called to the Mitre 10 hardware store at Longford, in northern Tasmania, early this morning after management discovered the business had...

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Greens focus on devil peril

The Tarkine is one of the last homes to populations of devils free of the deadly facial tumour disease which has wiped out as much as 80 per cent of the population. PROTECTING the contentious Tarkine region and its disease-free Tasmanian devils...

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Award for science star

Hobart geoscientist Dr Jo Whittaker, of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, has won the L'Oreal Women in Science fellowship. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE HOBART geoscientist Jo Whittaker has discovered chunks "left behind" about 100 million...

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Big Red Car heading south

GET ready to wiggle -- superstars of the pre-school set The Wiggles are coming back to Tasmania this year. The Wiggles will perform their brand new live show, Ready, Steady, Wiggle, in Hobart and Launceston in December. The tour also shares its name...

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Primrose house fire 'suspicious'

AN overnight house fire in the coastal hamlet of Primrose Sands is being treated as suspicious. The Tasmania Fire Service was alerted to the blaze, in Tasmania's south-east, about 2.15am today. Crews from Primrose Sands, Dodges Ferry, Midway Point...

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Collins in penalty rate push

FEDERAL minister Julie Collins has taken her campaign to the doorstep of Liberal Senator Eric Abetz's office in an effort to highlight the rights of shift workers. Ms Collins has taken her campaign into enemy territory, conducting her media doorstop...

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Honouring huts of high country

THERE are hidden jewels scattered among the mountains, valleys and plateaus of Tasmania's central highlands. They are the unique huts crafted of wood, brick and stone built by past generations to shield today's highland travellers from the harshest...

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