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Jan 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier |Louise Miolin
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Kim Napier |Brooke Van Nooten |Rachel Edwards
Tasmania has a housing crisis. But why, and more importantly, what should we do about it? It's a topic we talk about a lot on ABC Local Radio, but this time we're doing it a bit differently. Tasmania Mornings presenter, Leon Compton, and ABC Northern Tasmania Breakfast presenter, Kim Napier, held a forum in Launceston to put a spotlight on the question: Is Tasmania's housing crisis a choice?
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
Are you ever too old to play sport? Obviously the answer is no!As interest in the Olympics reaches fever pitch worldwide, we wanted to shine a light on how sport and physical activity can benefit older people in our own community. Former national team badminton player Geraldine Brown has played several Masters events over the years and won many gold medals.
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May 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
Do you own a cat? Is it an outside cat or inside cat? Waratah-Wynyard mayor Mary Duniam would like to see cats prohibited from coastal zones where penguins and plovers nest. Jaana Dielenberg is a spokesperson for the Biodiversity Council and she says cats can seriously damage animal habitats, irrespective of whether they are killing successfully. She told Kim Napier on ABC Radio Northern Tasmania Breakfast that cats carry a lot of risk for humans and native fauna alike.
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May 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
A lot of fuss is made around the liberation of being an empty nester — all that freedom, not to mention a cleaner house. But for some parents, rather than break out the champagne and turn their child's bedroom into a home gym, they struggle with feelings of loss and anxiety. Empty nest syndrome refers to the grief experienced by parents when one or all their children have left the family home to live elsewhere.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
Do you know about ghost signs? Do you have any in your neighbourhood? Ghost signs are often hand-painted advertising banners that have stayed untouched in public spaces, even if the brands they're promoting no longer exist. Photographer Brady Michaels has travelled over 40,000 kilometres to find ghost signs and says Launceston is one of the best places in Australia to spot them.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lucie Cutting |Kim Napier
The oldest-known wombat in the world is shuffling toward his mid-30s, exceeding the average wild wombat's age by an estimated 20 years. The marsupial — called Wain, and also known as Mr Wine — started life at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania but has spent most of his life in Japan. Found as an orphan in November 1989, Wain spent a brief period in care in northern Tasmania before being sent overseas to mark a long-standing relationship between Tasmania's City of Launceston and Ikeda in Japan.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
"My mum was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1950 when she was pregnant with me. She went to hospital when I was two months old. "The next time I would see her, I was three."This is the story of my mum Margaret Booker and her separation from both her mother and father for eight long years, when they were admitted to hospital in the 1950s in Tasmania with tuberculosis (TB). Her story is common.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
Can animals be used to predict the outcome of events? We placed a red box for Labor and a blue box for the Liberals in the enclosure of Banduka the Sri Lankan leopard at Tasmania Zoo, in the hope of testing his prediction skills. Which ever box Banduka mauled to pieces first would indicate who would lead Tasmania's next government. Local radio presenters Andre Leslie and Kim Napier stood safely outside the cage and called the action.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Napier
In short: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder can result in severe depression, mood swings and fatigue. Millions of women around the world have the disorder but many struggle to find help. What's next? Treatment is available for PMDD, with Women's Health Tasmania running workshops where people can share their experiences.
