Emergency doctor crisis at LGH and other top stories.

• Emergency doctor crisis at LGH

  The Launceston General Hospital has had to bring in mainland locums to work in its emergency department.NINE of the 11 clinicians employed at the Launceston General Hospital’s emergency department have left over the past month and locums are being brought in from the mainland at huge cost.Shadow health minister Rebecca White said six nurses from the LGH’s emergency department had also gone.“These contracted specialists have been offered less money and have decided to go elsewhere where their har..

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• Election 2016: Political ads a plenty

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Election 2016: Political ads a plenty The election campaign is ramping and so will the prevalence of political ads on TV. PT1M37S 620 349 Andrew Nikolic – ex-senior army officer, hard-right Tony Abbott loyalist and MP for economically challenged northern Tasmania – is a fighter. He's going to need to be.It is 15 years since an incumbent has been returned in Bass, which takes in Launceston and radiates through small towns in the north and north-e..

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• Orlando victims mourned in vigils across Australia

  

  Australians have gathered in parks, streets and halls across the country to hold candlelight vigils. Orlando victims mourned in vigils across Australia ALBURY: The Border remembered Orlando victims through songs, speeches and in silence at the vigil. Picture: Elenor TedenborgWAGGA: Samson Taylor-Harpey, Ella Taylor-Harpey, Isabella Taylor-Harpey and Gemma Saffery were among the 100-strong crowd at Thursday night's vigil.BALLARAT: Rachel Edgington Carolann Va..

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• State of the Nation | Sunday, June 19, 2016

  

  ▻LAUNCESTON: When Nicole Bassett, 15, had complained of a stomach bug her mother had never anticipated bitter news. Read more. ▻MT ISA: It's show ...

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• Power turned off in ladder-leading clash

  

  Mersey Leven Power go down to Clarence Mersey Leven Power’s top-of-the ladder challenge was an unsuccessful one, going down by 55 points to Clarence on Saturday, despite another big haul from Zoe Knight.QUICK KICK: Mersey Leven Power's Kristy Medcraft puts Clarence's Nicole Bresnehan under the pump during Saturday's match. Picture: Paul Scambler.A four goal to two second term allowed the visitors some breathing space after a tight start to the match at Wesley Vale, before a 4.0 to..

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• Bread and butter rules Braddon

  

  Brett Whiteley at the beach in Burnie on Tasmania's North-West coast. Picture: PETER MATHEWBRADDON is often seen as Tasmania’s “hard-knocks” electorate, a place where tough economic times often drive voters and the issues they see as important.Decades ago the North-West was viewed as socially conservative but the electorate and its demographic have changed greatly over the past two decades as more tree-changers arrive from outside the area and tourism replaces manufacturing and forestry as a mai..

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• Intense game ends in a draw

  Keepers save the day Devonport and Somerset played out a scoreless draw at Valley Road on Saturday during the round 12 Northern Championships action.CONTEST: Michael Dahya and Matthew Jordan. Picture: Brodie Weeding.In a game which was described as being ‘’intense’’ in the midfield, both teams had opportunities to impact the scoreboard throughout the contest. But the strong work of both goalkeepers, Tommy Pearce for the home team and Steven Treloar for the Sharks. ensured the sco..

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• Candidates back UTAS science hub

  

  A $400 million UTAS science hub could be an election bargaining chip to rival the redevelopment of the Royal Hobart Hospital with the Turnbull Government warning of a hung parliament.The University of Tasmania is proposing a relocated state-of-the-art science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) centre as its next move into the Hobart CBD.The “centre of excellence” could bring 4500 extra staff, researchers and students into the heart of the city.It is yet to attract federal funding pr..

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• Devonport strikes again

  

  Hobart’s Nicholas Drew, right, tries to get around Kingborough’s Keiron Dale. Picture: RICHARD JUPETHE efficient Devonport Strikers extended their lead to four points at the top of the NPL Tasmania ladder with a 2-0 win over South Hobart in yesterday’s top-of-the-table clash at Valley Rd.The Strikers had just six shots compared to South’s 29, but found the net twice to defeat South Hobart for the third time this season, twice in the league and in last week’s Lakoseljac Cup final.South dominated ..

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• From Channel 9 to Channel Nein

  

  The Voice judges, from left, Joel Madden, Jessie J, Benji Madden, Delta Goodrem and Ronan Keating. Picture: MARK METCALFE/GETTY IMAGESTHE Voice, The Footy Show and 60 Minutes could all be missing from Tasmanian TV screens from next month unless an eleventh-hour deal can be struck for Nine Network programs to be broadcast in the state.Nine has been left without an agreement for Tasmania two weeks out from the biggest shake-up of regional television in decades.The uncertainty comes after the netwo..

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