Chill on Antarctic cuts

CHINA'S long-term involvement with Hobart's Antarctic gateway could be jeopardised if Australia's program on the icy continent is not adequately funded, supporters fear. The Australian Antarctic Division's operating budget was cut this year by 8 per...

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Sandy Bay markets proposed

TWO different markets have been proposed for the Long Beach Reserve area at Sandy Bay. A monthly beachside market and a night market have been put forward by separate proponents, who envisage 40 to 50 stalls and entertainment. Hobart City Council aldermen...

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Workers leave a lasting trail

Three Capes Track construction supervisor Albert Thompson with the view over Arthurs Peak to the Tasman Peninsula. Pictures: SAM ROSEWARNE LOGAN Higgins reckons he has got the best job in the world. The 27-year-old from West Hobart also says he...

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Reggie still smiling

Reggie Sorensen, with children Lucas, 4, and Mia, 6, is trying to stay positive despite health problems. Picture: RICHARD GOSLING HER positive nature on Big Brother made her much loved, and Reggie Sorensen (nee Bird) is using that same attitude...

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Chance to quiz Denison candidates

RESIDENTS of the federal seat of Denison will get a chance to grill the main candidates for the hotly contested seat at a forum organised by a national organisation devoted to increasing political engagement. OurSay and the University of Melbourne are...

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The promise of good, clean fun

SLIP, SLOP, SPLAT: Nick Gill gets down and dirty. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES MUD, glorious mud. That's what Nugent farmer Lindsay White is promising by the tractor-load at the inaugural Raw Challenge event at his Redbanks property on November 2,...

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Growth pledge wins support

TONY Abbott's plan for Tasmania has been given a tentative thumbs up by the Sunday Tasmanian's citizens jury. The Coalition's growth plan for Tasmania, which includes $38 million of funding for an extension of the Hobart International Airport runway,...

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Tall ships in voyage of history

Tasmanian Sail Training Association chairman Rob Thomas, on board the Lady Nelson, is looking forward to the tall ships spectacular along the Hobart waterfront. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES THE spirit of high seas adventure will descend on Hobart's...

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Demand for super vegie grows

Sampling some kale are, from left, Houston's Farm's Vanessa Ford and Estelle Blackwell, with food scientist Hazel MacTavish-West. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN SALES of leafy super-vegetable kale are flourishing, with Tasmanian producer Houston's Farm struggling...

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Hobart dines out on circus

Cast members rehearse for the Hobart's Only Theatre Restaurant show on August 31. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE ROLL up, roll up, but be warned -- this is not your regular circus. It is, in fact, Hobart's Only Theatre Restaurant, performing a circus-inspired...

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Community's heart beats on

TUCKED away in suburbs across the state, Tasmania's network of 34 neighbourhood houses are on the front line of the state's financial crisis. Most of the houses are under increasing pressure to meet demand and staff say promised extra funding can't...

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Forestry funding in balance

AS the fate of the final $100 million of the $420 million Tasmanian Forestry Agreement hangs in the balance, Deputy Premier Bryan Green has launched a blistering attack on his Liberal Party opponents, describing their plans to thwart the deal as the...

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Welfare agencies overrun

TASMANIA'S welfare and charity operators are overwhelmed with demand as more Tasmanians are pushed into poverty. The need is so great agencies are turning people away. Paying the power bill or even just putting food on the table is becoming a challenge...

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The rise and fall of John Gay

JOHN Gay first came to the public's attention when he fronted the Royal Commission into the Edmund Rouse bribery scandal in 1991. The brash, no-nonsense boss of Gunns Kilndried Timber Industries was ordered to present his 1989 work diary, but turned...

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Curtain rises on music of night

Brett Budgeon as the Phantom and Allison Farrow as Christine. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN THE Phantom of the Opera is here, with the curtain going up on the big-budget Tasmanian premiere at Hobart's Theatre Royal tonight. With bigger box-office returns...

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Abbott pledges jobs incentive

Tony Abbott, centre, with State Liberal leader Will Hodgman, left, and Braddon Liberal candidate Brett Whiteley announces his jobs plan for Tasmania. Pictures:CHRIS KIDD TASMANIAN jobseekers are being targeted by the Coalition, with Tony Abbott...

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Campaign to get Lily walking

LILY Parremore has only the 12th known Australian case of the rare Pallister-Killian Syndrome. Because of her chromosomal disorder, 22-month-old Lily is only able to sit and play for short periods. She is unable to walk, crawl or roll over without help....

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Cuts raise business hopes

HOME loan customers are celebrating after the big banks passed on the Reserve Bank's 0.25 per cent cut to official interest rates yesterday. Three of the four major banks shrugged off recent tardiness to announce they would cut their standard variable...

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State's hospital horror

ALMOST four patients a day on average waited for more than 24 hours to get a hospital bed in Tasmania's public emergency departments, new figures reveal. The Mercury last week revealed 169 Royal Hobart Hospital emergency department patients a year waited...

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Robbery at TOTE

A 38-YEAR-OLD Glenorchy man has been arrested by police after a brazen daylight robbery at the TOTE agency at Moonah yesterday. The bearded man was captured on CCTV as he had a conversation with an attendant. Police say the man threatened a female...

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Taking the plunge for charity

GOING over the top in the name of charity is all in a day's policing for Commissioner Darren Hine. Next month, Mr Hine will join 60 others to abseil down Wrest Point Casino's 60m tower to raise funds for Royal Hobart Hospital's Research Foundation....

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Hatchet attacker paroled

A SCHOOLBOY who tried to kill a fellow student in a hatchet attack is set to be released from youth detention four years after being imprisoned for attempted murder. The 19-year-old, who has served half of an eight-year sentence, has been granted parole...

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More forest action ahead

ENVIRONMENTAL groups have vowed to continue protests despite calls from Greens Leader Nick McKim to give forest peace a chance. Green groups have rejected Mr McKim's calls, in the Sunday Tasmanian yesterday, to stop protests in the lead-up to a final...

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Waste boss blasts scare tactics

UNOFFICIAL: One of the signs warning about water quality due to the Copping C Cell waste facility. Picture: KIM EISZELE PROPONENTS of the proposed Copping C Cell waste facility east of Hobart have asked that signs making claims about it be removed...

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Bell Bay in fight for survival

A DARK cloud hangs over the future of Bell Bay Aluminium smelter, with an economic storm looming similar to the one that flattened the state's woodchip industry. About 500 workers' jobs are in jeopardy, despite the smelter benefiting from a generous...

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Disaster data made easy

KNOWN as "ERIC", a new computer tool that will help authorities react better to emergencies was officially launched yesterday. Developed by the CSIRO, the Emergency Response Intelligence Capability collects data and displays it on a map-based interface...

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Gifts from sublime to ridiculous

WHAT more could a future king of England want? The Northern Territory's gift to the newborn Prince George of Cambridge is a baby crocodile named George, while Tasmania is sending some leather booties and making a donation to charity. NT Chief Minister...

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Cop accused of lying sacked

A POLICE officer accused of making a false statement over a 2011 triple shooting in Devonport has been sacked. The 45-year-old Launceston constable had been suspended on full pay since October 2011 pending an investigation into allegations he gave a...

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Hobart marina plan to set sail

MARINA PLAN: The proposed extension of the Derwent Sailing Squadron marina. Image: BURBURY CONSULTING AN expanded floating marina to be built near Wrest Point will help satisfy a growing demand for yachting berths in Hobart, the Derwent Sailing...

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Fine over illegal abalone

A PROMINENT Tasmanian abalone exporter has been convicted and fined more than $7000 in the Hobart Magistrates Court on two counts of taking undersized shellfish. Mark Shane Daft, 50, of Tas Live Abalone Pty Ltd, had pleaded guilty to the charges that...

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Accused ruled fit for trial

A MAN accused of the hammer murders of two academics at Mountain River last December has been found fit to stand trial, a court has heard. Nicolau Francisco Soares, 27, of Western Australia, is accused of killing his mother, Delys Weston, 62, and health...

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World welcomes future king

THE United Kingdom has welcomed a future king with the announcement that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have a baby boy. He was born at 4.24pm local time (1.24am AEST) and weighs 8 lbs 6oz or 3800 grams. Prince William was present at the...

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Tassie's winter peak

OCCUPANCY BOOST: Dark MOFO Festival provided a 24.4 per cent boost in occupancy rates. THE verdict is in. Hobart's two signature winter events, the Festival of Voices and newcomer Dark MOFO, have transformed the city's cultural landscape and been...

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National push on public holidays

MOVES to reduce the number of public holidays could threaten the viability of some of the state's iconic events, organisers say. The Australian Industry Group has reopened the public holiday debate saying they should be capped at 11 as part of a raft...

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Hopes to salvage Viking boat

ONE of the biggest drawcards from February's Australian Wooden Boat Festival is now languishing at Franklin in need of some TLC. The 11-tonne pine and oak Viking boat Rusich made a 13,500 nautical mile journey from the Volga to the Derwent for the festival....

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Fading snaps tell migrant tales

FOR the past 38 years, Nicola Goc has been enchanted by her mother-in-law's tales of migration from Poland after World War II. A cherished biscuit tin full of old black and white photographs offers a pictorial essay of the emotion-charged pilgrimage,...

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New wave of Daves

SAVED: Dave Noonan shows off his namesake and new arrival David Xander Moore - the son of Mel and Matt Moore, who were swayed for the name of their newborn by the "Save Dave" campaign. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN DAVID Xander Moore was born into this world...

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120km/h gales roar in

TASMANIA Police reported no damage from the strong wind that buffeted the south of the state yesterday. The Bureau of Meteorology's severe weather warning and advice to residents to secure loose items around the home was downgraded at 4pm. Senior forecaster...

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$185m jewel of the North

The site for a planned $185 million eco-development at Musselroe Bay. A $185 million eco-development slated for the state's far northeast coast, which includes a golf course, five-star accommodation and its own air strip, has been hailed as a boon...

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One dead in two-vehicle crash

A MALE motorcyclist has died following a collision with a car near Penguin this morning. The two-vehicle crash was reported just after 7.30am on rural Cuprona Rd. The road has been closed while investigations are carried out and the scene is cleared....

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Pedestrian trial begins

SPACE: Morgan Ross, left, and Bronte Wilson have room to move in Liverpool St. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES MOTORISTS beware -- a trial reduction of Liverpool St from two lanes of traffic to one between Elizabeth and Murray streets began yesterday....

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Journey to bottom of the sea

NEW DISCOVERIES: Neville Barrett with the robot sub that is exploring the sea bed off Tasmania. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES THE great age of exploration is not over in Australia. Late last week, the research vessel Challenger returned to Hobart...

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