Tasmania News

Leanne Rowe is an Australian, living in Tasmania. She was involved in a serious car crash and after recovering from her injuries, she found she had developed what sounds like a French accent.

Dunalley - Raging brushfires in parts of the Australian island of Tasmania have destroyed nearly 100 homes, stranding thousands of residents and claiming at least one life.

Sydney - There’s no doubt about it, politicians live in a different world. So do most of the other mainstream participants in public debates about tobacco, both for and against. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Tasmania’s latest approach.

Weymouth - A huge crab has just been spared becoming someone's supper after being caught. In reality, not just one person's supper, but more along the lines of feeding a crowd.

Glenorchy - A $30 million upgrade all came crashing down on Saturday courtesy of a rogue rabbit blamed for digging holes found on a racecourse in Glenorchy, Tasmania.

Hobart - A coroner has called on the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses to review the ban on blood transfusions after a death under circumstances he described as "graphically illustrating the consequence of rigid adherence to that doctrine."

UNESCO recently added five prison sites to its World Heritage List, all located in the Australian island and state of Tasmania.

It has emerged that a Family Court in Australia ruled in January that two girls, aged eight and 10, must spend every other weekend with their father, at present on the Sexual Offenders Register because of a child pornography conviction.

A population of Tasmanian devils living in northwestern Tasmania has shown to be immune to a severe facial cancer disease that has decimated the species.

The puzzler over who was responsible for crop circles in Tasmania was put to rest with the recent discovery that Wallabies, who after eating some of the poppy crops, hop around in circles in the fields.