Lucy Macdonald
Courts and Environment Reporter at ABC News (Australia)
ABC Hobart Reporter. [email protected]
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Gambling and hotel giant Federal Group flags opposition to Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium
3 days ago |
abc.net.au | Lucy Macdonald
Tasmanian hospitality giant Federal Group says Macquarie Point is not the right location for the proposed AFL stadium. The group owns two hotels in the precinct and the Wrest Point casino in the nearby Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay. Speaking to ABC Radio Hobart, executive general manager of corporate and regulatory affairs Daniel Hanna said the group had some "real concerns" about the proposed location. "It's one of the most iconic viewscapes in Hobart and indeed in Tasmania," Mr Hanna said.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Lucy Macdonald
As the red wave swept Tasmania on election night, it wasn't just the federal Labor Party that was celebrating the "extraordinary" result. Closely watching as the votes flowed in, sometimes side by side with the federal candidates, were members of the party's state team, experiencing by proxy something that they haven't for a long time — victory. Tasmanian Labor has been stuck in the political wilderness for more than a decade now.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Lucy Macdonald
There was shock on the ABC election panel when the results started coming in. "Remarkable" and "extraordinary" were some of the words used to describe what was happening in Tasmania on election night. It was something no-one saw coming — not the Liberals who thought they would defend their own seats and maybe, just maybe, pick up one, and not even Labor dared dream it would go this well. But when the music stopped, the Liberals were left without a single seat and a lot of questions to answer.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Lucy Macdonald
Northern Tasmania has dramatically swung to Labor in a surprise result that pushed out a well-liked local MP and turned a safe Liberal seat red. It means the federal Liberals won't hold a single one of the state's five lower house seats. Bass, which takes in Launceston and the state's north-east, and Braddon, which takes in the state's north-west and west coast were won by the Liberals in 2019. When the country voted in the Labor Party in 2022, voters in those seats stuck with the Liberals.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Lucy Macdonald
As the smallest state, Tasmania only has five seats in the House of Representatives. And experts say one of those, the Hobart-based seat of Clark, is likely to be won easily by independent Andrew Wilkie. Leaving four in play to varying degrees.
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