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The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Polls suggest Australia Indigenous Voice referendum will fail

Latest polls suggest the only state that backs the proposal to create Indigenous advisory body is Tasmania.

Al Jazeera

Controversial new Tasmanian AFL stadium could add $226m a year to economy, report finds

But a parliamentary committee says there has been no evidence to bolster the key assumptions underpinning the business case

The Guardian - AU

Australia rescues sick researcher from remote outpost in Antarctica

The researcher has been evacuated and is on a ship headed for Tasmania for treatment

Evening Standard

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Covid cycling boom has ended with just one-third of Australians riding in 2023

The Guardian - AU

Australia records warmest winter caused by global heating and sunny conditions

NSW, Queensland and Tasmania experienced hottest winters with spring likely to deliver hotter than average temperatures too

The Guardian - AU

The massacre of Tasmania’s forests could be stopped at any time. Where are Australia’s leaders?

The tallest flowering trees on Earth reduced to stumps and a fernery maybe millions of years old razed to the ground – and this butchery is condoned

The Guardian - AU

Unesco removes ‘hurtful’ document claiming Tasmanian Aboriginal people ‘extinct’

Inaccurate statement by the International Union for Conservation of Nature made as part of the 1982 process for world heritage status for Tasmanian wilderness area

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Australia’s $528m Antarctic icebreaker wider than initially designed as bridge impasse labelled ‘farcical’

Tasmania’s harbour master says RSV Nuyina’s dimensions significantly changed from original design and ‘windage area’ now too large

The Guardian - AU

Voice referendum date to be revealed in Adelaide as South Australia emerges as swing state

Guardian Australia analysis shows yes and no campaign advertising is focused more on SA, Tasmania and WA, and less on east coast states

The Guardian - AU

Disease in the dirt: how mange-causing mites decimated a Tasmanian wombat population

More than 80% of Australian mammals are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these unique, iconic creatures are under threat.

The Conversation

Giant old trees are still being logged in Tasmanian forests. We must find ways of better protecting them

The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a seedling over a century ago.

The Conversation

Tasmanian scene puts Canberra artist in finals of Gosford Art Prize

The work shows a bend in the beautiful Derwent River.

The Canberra Times

Morning Mail: All eyes on the Matildas, more scrutiny over consultants, anger as centuries-old tree felled in Tasmania

Australians hold their breath ahead of the World Cup semi-final; PwC in new disclosure revelations; PM urged to witness impacts of native logging

The Guardian - AU

‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

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Tasmanian church offers a conversion dream – with one eerie catch

The new owner of St Mary the Virgin, near Gretna, must tend to the adjoining graveyard, overseeing new burials and 400 graves

The Conversation

Rising seas and a great southern star: Aboriginal oral traditions stretch back more than 12,000 years

Content note: this article mentions genocide and acts of colonial violence against Aboriginal people.

The Guardian - AU

Future uncertain for key Tasmania to mainland power transmission link after $2bn cost blowout

Federal government in discussion with states after Marinus Link price tag increases, putting decarbonisation and energy goals at risk

Inverse

Scientists Just Scanned the Brain of an Animal That’s Been Extinct for 87 Years

Using a 140-year-old piece of brain tissue, we may know more about the Tasmanian tiger’s brain than before.

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The Guardian - AU

Sydney records hottest July as unseasonably warm weather set to persist across most of Australia

July records broken over the weekend in parts of NSW and Victoria as ‘almost the entire country’ 2-6C above average temperatures

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NSW police taskforce to investigate spate of shootings – as it happened

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WEKU

Rescue efforts are underway for dozens of whales beached along an Australia coast

The incident is reminiscent of one in September, in which some 200 pilot whales died after a pod stranded itself on the remote west coast of Tasmania, off Australia's southeastern coast.

The Guardian - AU

Global calls to revoke ‘misleading’ sustainable farming certification for salmon in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour

Letters sent to two accreditation schemes say pollution is contributing to the extinction of a critically endangered fish species

The Conversation

Queer disobedience and uncomfortable truths: your guide to the 2023 Miles Franklin shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist takes us from Sydney’s criminal underclass in the 1930s and the quiet waters of rural Tasmania in the 1940s to shopping for design objects in contemporary Japan.

AAP

Stadium pressure forces minority Tas govt into shuffle

Tasmania's premier is handing over health and tweaking cabinet roles as the Liberals govern in minority after two MPs walked to the cross bench.

AAP

Bob Brown to fight anti-logging protest criminal charge

Former federal Greens leader Bob Brown has pleaded not guilty to trespassing over a protest in Tasmania against logging in the habitat of a rare parrot.

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