How to tell if a book is valuable
Are you a book lover? Do you have a teetering tower of tomes on your bedside table? Maybe…
Op shop purchase of The Hobbit could be worth tens of thousands if verified as first edition Tolkien
A Tasmanian woman is trying to sell what she says is a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien’s The…
Travel discounts: Qatar Airways flights, Yasawa Island Resort Fiji, Phantom of the Opera Sydney, Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, and Tasmania tours
With only 18 Beachfront Bures scattered among swaying palms, Yasawa Island Resort and Spa offers a rare kind…
Only private mental health clinic in southern Tas could close
The only private mental health clinic in southern Tasmania could be shut at the end of the month…
Hospital in the Home program helping young man with agoraphobia who ‘cut himself off from the world’
Tom French went from being a teenager who loved the outdoors to a young adult who could not…
Breakers beat Jack Jumpers to get back to winning ways
Rob Baker picked up two fouls in the opening 90 seconds of the contest, the big forward’s departure…
Tasracing sacks chief thoroughbred steward for ‘conduct-related matters’ days into employment
Tasracing has sacked its newly appointed chief thoroughbred steward for “conduct-related matters” that occurred just days into their…
Art courier Laurie Burgess grows his collection as he travels Australia delivering to galleries
Laurie Burgess is not just any courier. About 20 years ago, he made the decision to move only…
Wildlife Photographer Pleads Guilty to Trespassing on Private Island to Photograph Rare Parrots
Orange-bellied parrot photographed in Melaleuca, Southwest Conservation Area in Tasmania, Australia by JJ Harrison (Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA…
Calls to reform Australia’s pension age as labourers consider early retirement due to injury
In Australia, the pension age was lifted from 65 to 67 in 2023. For some manual workers, it’s…
Australians are moving to Tasmania to escape climate change, but the island state is not immune
Jack Taylor can still vividly remember the day when the air around him became too hot to breathe.…
Tasmania’s only large-scale private mental health clinic, the Hobart Clinic, to close inpatient site by end of October
Tasmania’s only large-scale private mental health clinic will be closing down its main site, after years of bleeding…