Show your colours

ARE you keen to show your true colours on Australia Day? What better way than snapping this colourful cap? You can get your very own for just $1 when you buy a copy of tomorrow's Sunday Tasmanian. One cap per original token while stocks last. Cap...

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Masses flow to MOFO

CROWDS came from all directions to enjoy the third day of MONA FOMA. Hundreds flocked to the sold-out MOFO Eastern Shore performance at the Rosny Barn last night. Indian tabla player Bickram Ghosh, who has played with the late George Harrison and Ravi...

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Bridges Bros blaze 'suspicious'

The full impact of the overnight blaze (inset) becomes clear in the morning light. Picture: KIM EISZELE POLICE believe a $10 million fire in Hobart's CBD early this morning was deliberately lit. Fire crews were called to Bridges Brothers, between...

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Big slump in full-time jobs

TASMANIA'S unemployment rate took a 0.6 per cent horror jump to 7.3 per cent in December as a result of a large loss of full-time jobs particularly among men. The Australian Bureau of Statistics seasonally adjusted figures showed a jump from 16,700...

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New hurdle to forests peace

FEDERAL Environment Minister Tony Burke fears the Tasmanian Forest Agreement may fall apart if the Legislative Council prevents a World Heritage nomination going ahead by the end of this month. Mr Burke turned up the pressure on the Legislative Council...

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Cameras will see you: police

PETTY criminals, graffiti vandals and those responsible for anti-social behaviour have been warned: you will be caught. Big brother is watching and his view has just improved dramatically with the roll-out of 20 hi-tech cameras in Glenorchy and five...

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Pledge to restart city's heart

THE Hobart City Council has vowed to turn the CBD into a magnet for tourists, families and residents in 2013. Amid concerns from retailers that opening on weekends and public holidays is too costly when the CBD looks like a ghost town, Lord Mayor Damon...

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Teen hurt in gorge tumble

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl was taken to hospital with a dislocated knee last night after falling down an embankment at Launceston's Cataract Gorge. Police were called out at 8.30pm and arrived to find the teen about 500m from the suspension bridge towards the...

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All eyes on Glenorchy crime

FROM GRAFFITI bandits to seasoned criminals, those doing the wrong thing are now on notice -- the police are always watching. Glenorchy Mayor Stuart Slade today turned on 16 fixed CCTV cameras and four mobile camera units designed to keep the city safe....

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Tassie blaze menace returns

WARNING NOTE: TFS station officer and public information officer Phil Douglas addresses yesterday's community meeting at Ellendale. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE FIREFIGHTERS are going from house to house to work out which properties can be defended, as...

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My name's been cleared

THE Nubeena shop owners at the centre of profiteering allegations have had their names cleared by Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading and the Australian Federal Police. Everyday Nubeena shop owners Branko and Roza Alilovic had been the subject of a social...

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Cherry export coup for Tassie

ALMOST half the production of one of Tasmania's biggest cherry growers is now being exported to China. From tomorrow, 20 tonnes of quality cherries will be sent daily to Beijing and Shanghai from Reid Fruits Packing sheds at Huonville. After months...

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Standing by to sizzle

AFTER sweating through record-breaking temperatures earlier in the month, the mercury is set to rise again in Hobart this week, with a top of 30C forecast for Thursday. Today the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a maximum temperature for Hobart of...

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Upper House inquiry opens

LEGISLATIVE councillors will be able to vote on each of the 295 lots to be reserved under Tasmania's forest peace deal. From today, the Upper House begins three days of public hearings into the Tasmanian Forests Agreement Bill, which was passed by the...

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Recall likely as nation hots up

SOME of the interstate firefighters helping fight Tasmania's devastating bushfires may be sent home as temperatures rise in their home states. Dozens of firefighters have been sent to Tasmania from across the country after the state's worst fires in...

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Rebuild could take years

Bushfire Recovery Co-ordinator Michael Stevens, left, and recovery taskforce chairman Damian Bugg, QC, outside the Executive Building in Hobart today. Picture: MATT THOMPSON THE head of the Tasmanian Bushfire Recovery Taskforce says it could take...

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Unit fire sparks arson inquiry

AN arson investigation has opened after an overnight fire in the Launceston suburb of Ravenswood. Fire crews were called to the blaze at a unit in Pioneer Parade about 10.50pm yesterday. The unit was badly damaged but no one was home at the time. ...

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Tributes flow for fallen fireman

A VICTORIAN man who died while fighting bushfires in Tasmania has been described as a remarkable person. Peter Ronald Cramer, 61, from Tyers in Victoria's Gippsland region, died yesterday while assisting backburning operations at Taranna, east of Hobart,...

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Behold, bloomin' beauties

IN among tree-lined streets and leafy gardens, the community of Claremont was last night putting the finishing touches ahead of this weekend's 21st Lily and Summer Flower Show. Between 100 and 130 exhibitors from around the state are expected to display...

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Festival expects lots of folk

Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs of the Stiff Gins. THE tiny town of Cygnet will come alive today as thousands of music fans roll in for the 31st annual Cygnet Folk Festival. More than 110 acts are set to perform during the weekend of the festival,...

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Gamble that put us on map

WHEN it comes to attractions in Hobart, one venture stands out above the rest literally. It was a tall order for Tasmania when the Federal Group proposed Australia's first casino be built on our shores, but luckily the vote in favour of Wrest Point...

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