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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

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

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

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

Tasmanian man to walk from Launceston to Hobart to 'prove' the need for footpaths

A Tasmanian man will walk from Launceston to Hobart to raise awareness of his campaign to have a footpath installed along every road in the state. The group Tasmanians for Proper Footpaths has been lobbying state and local governments pressing its ... >> 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

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

Australian swimmers brave cold Tasmanian seas to prepare for English Channel

Tasmanian athletes Duncan Hall from Hobart and Julie Sladden from Launceston will brave the icy cold waters, strong tides, busy shipping traffic, and often fickle weather of the 34km English Channel in an all-Australian Relay 'One Direction' in late ... >> view original

TARGA: Changes await tarmac rally competitors in Tasmania

Targa Tasmania, Australia's premier tarmac rally, gets underway on Monday, April 27. And with ... Northern Tasmanian spectators shouldn't fear, however, as the Launceston Silverdome (home base for the first three legs of competition) will host a Targa ... >> view original

Launceston man promised to 'f--k up' woman before alleged double murder ...

A Launceston man accused of a double murder texted a friend he was going to "f--- up" one of the alleged victims four days before she died, a court has heard. Marco Daniel Rusterholz has pleaded not guilty to the August 2012 murders of Angela Maree ... >> view original