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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