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…
Fears for endangered Tasmanian crayfish species after ‘unauthorised’ earthworks
A creek in northern Tasmanian known to be home to the endangered giant freshwater crayfish has sustained “serious…
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…
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…
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…
Couple’s shock after finding rare glowing animal on Aussie road: ‘What’s that?’
During a late-night drive to lull their two kids to sleep, an Aussie couple were “shocked” by an…
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…
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…
Beaker Street Science Photography prize – in pictures | Science
Finalists for 2025 will be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 to 31 August…