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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | James Dunlevie |Adam Holmes |Susan Oong
Tasmania's governor has granted Premier Jeremy Rockliff an early election, stating that she "is satisfied that there is no real possibility that an alternative government can be formed". Governor Barbara Baker has announced Saturday July 19 as the date. Live updates, reactions and contributions from ABC readers. A sample of the comments coming in tonight:>>> Pretty rich of the greens to claim they didn’t want the election when all they had to do was not back the No Confidence motion.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Adam Holmes |Susan Oong
Tony Santi died in a motorbike crash near Collinsvale in Hobart in 1976, aged 19. It was a traumatic time for his family. "You learn to live with the grief rather than move on," his brother John Santi told ABC Radio Hobart. It's a grief his family has lived with for almost half a century, visiting his gravesite each Christmas. But on Saturday, they discovered something previously unknown about Tony.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
Riley Grining was skippering a cruise around Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour on Sunday when he received a call to help stop a pod of pilot whales from stranding themselves on a beach. The night before, the remote wilderness area was lashed with high winds blowing at up to 74 kilometres per hour, but even still, Mr Grining said it was unusual to see the mostly offshore species within the shelter of the harbour.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
Concept designs for a proposed $5 million ferry terminal upgrade at Bellerive have been released. The terminal will include indoor waiting areas, improved seating for a larger number of passengers, bicycle storage options and be fully accessible, artist impressions released on Sunday show.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
The Tasmanian public is being asked to provide feedback on a cashless gaming system, in a bid to address problem gambling in the state. From late next year, all gamblers using an electronic gaming machine (EGM), or poker machine, in Tasmania will need to register to play. That means for the first time, players will be able to track their spend on gaming machines; an important step, advocates say, for minimising the harm to Tasmanians and their families that can result from problem gambling.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
Sam Ralph says he felt a real sense of excitement when a sprawling green hub for his community was proposed three years ago. "When the City Heart was introduced, I felt proud to be a Clarence resident," he said. The urban green belt on Hobart's eastern shore is roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, and would create a network of walking paths and bike lanes that access the city's commercial and business hub at Rosny.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong |Eliza Kloser
One night in November 1972 a lone Tasmanian politician was sitting in the members' lounge at Parliament House in Hobart when a bullet was fired through the window from outside. The bullet, which left a hole still visible today, lodged into a door frame. While the motive remains unclear as to why a shot was fired, one insider said it could have been prompted by a number of highly contentious issues in society at the time.
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May 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
In short: Newly-elected Jacqui Lambie MPs Andrew Jenner, Rebekah Pentland and Miriam Beswick have spoken publicly for the first time since signing a deal with the Liberals to help them form government. Mr Jenner has expressed some regrets about the deal that was signed, saying it "wasn't the best". What's next? Parliament returns next week, and Mr Jenner has warned if the government gets "difficult", the JLN members will want go back to the negotiating table.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Susan Oong
More than half of Australian parents with teenagers say social media use is their top concern when it comes to their child's wellbeing. But interestingly, that's not what teenagers are most worried about. In a tally of the key issues that teens say most concern them, social media and tech ranked at a lowly 24 in the list compiled by online youth support service ReachOut. So why the disparity?
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Emma Siossian |Daniel Franklin |Susan Oong |Sharon Gordon
Loading... Each Christmas, Janet Gunn lovingly creates a pound cake based on an old family recipe included in a 1930s cookbook that was first owned by her grandmother. It's a simple fruit cake recipe — a pound of fruit, a pound of flour, butter and so on — that has become an enduring food tradition for the family. During World War II, Janet's mother made the same cake and had it delivered by the Red Cross to her father, who was serving in New Guinea.
