Anzac Day 2015: Record crowds attend services around Tasmania and other top stories

Anzac Day 2015: Record crowds attend services around Tasmania

Tens of thousands of people have attended Anzac parades and services around Tasmania this morning. Crowds lined the streets as current and former servicemen and women, along with relatives marched through the Hobart and Launceston CBDs to the ... >> view original

Interstate Ticketing - Launceston

... non-members prices are below. Fans based in Tasmania or members who wish to travel to the game can also purchase via the club or can book a custom travel package including flights, accommodation and tickets with AFL Travel at www.afltravel.com.au ... >> view original

Launceston Airport given all clear after bomb squad investigates abandoned car

Passengers were not allowed to disembark and the airport was cleared while the bomb squad inspected the car. "Look, I apologise for any disruption but certainly with this heightened threat level we currently have in Australia at the minute we had to ... >> view original

LIVE: Bontempelli out against Hawks

... game in almost 19 months when he faces the Western Bulldogs. Source: Ross Marsden / News Corp Australia. MARCUS Bontempelli is a late withdrawal for the Western Bulldogs as they prepare to face the reigning premier Hawthorn in Launceston today. >> view original

Tasmanian Government to pay Launceston sawmiller $1m to keep operating

A Launceston sawmiller will receive $1 million to stay in the timber sector rather than leave, in a record agreement struck under the Tasmanian Government's rejigged Regional Sawmiller Structural Adjustment Grants Program. Barbers Sawmill on Dowling ... >> view original

What is believed to be the world's biggest wasp nest has been found in ...

A 12-year-old boy has found what is believed to be the largest European wasp nest in the world, on a property at Karoola, north east of Launceston in Tasmania. Jordan Waddingham set out to discover the nest after his mother Stephanie complained about ... >> view original

Anzac Day 2015: Hundreds of thousands of people pay tribute to Anzacs

A crowd of 85,000 flocked to Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance to pay their respects to Australia's war dead, while up to 30,000 people attended the main Sydney dawn service in Martin Place. NSW Governor and former Defence chief David Hurley told the ... >> view original

School kids who urged Chinese president to visit Hobart invited as guests to China

Grade 6 students from Tasmania who wrote to Chinese president Xi Jinping have been invited by him to visit China. The students from Launceston's Scotch Oakburn College met the president during his historic visit to Tasmania late last year. They had ... >> view original

The Melbourne Rebels should relocate to Sydney.

Apart from the one or two Tests at ANZ Stadium annually, this means that western Sydney, the fastest growing region in Australia, will be starved of elite professional rugby and surely this situation cannot be good for the game. ... There are examples ... >> view original

TasWeekend: Hidden horror of war

Essentially, it was a conversation that has happened thousands of times in pubs across Australia in the 100 years since our first mass involvement in World War I. Back then when the men came home they called it shell shock. The Encyclopedia Britannica ... >> view original