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Bruce Lehrmann and the allegedly stolen Toyota Prado

‘Odd and bizarre’: SUV owner speaks after Bruce Lehrmann accused of stealing car

The Toyota Prado owner claimed her “pride and joy” was returned with the keys and a full tank of fuel just hours after it went missing.

  • Riley Walter and Michaela Whitbourn

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Achey, fakey art: One of the so-called Picassos in the toilet cubicle at Mona.

Mona’s ‘priceless’ toilet cubicle Picassos? They’re forged

The controversy around the Ladies Lounge, a conceptual women-only space at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, has taken yet another turn.

  • Karl Quinn
Willie Smith’s Apple Farm’s annual Mid Winter Festival is a kind of mini Burning Man, with an effigy of Big Willie set alight.

The cosiest destination in the world to visit in winter

Is the Apple Isle the cosiest place in the world to experience winter? Like good cider, the events are spiced up with a little bit of Tasmanian crazy.

  • Lee Tulloch
Aerial footage of Macquarie Point, a former industrial site that sits behind the Hobart port. Supplied by Stuart Gibson.
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Drone fly-over video of Mac Point

Aerial footage of Macquarie Point, a former industrial site that sits behind the Hobart port. Supplied by Stuart Gibson.

The architects behind Marriott International's first Luxury Collection hotel in Australia have reinvented, beautifully and sensitively, a former hospital.

Review: Perfect score for this unique Tasmanian hotel

This beautiful property celebrates its buildings' origins while cleverly incorporating the new and the luxurious.

  • Trudi Jenkins
Artist Jeewan Suwel.

Henry Jones Art Hotel artist-in-residence program: The Hobart hotel that takes art to heart

A Hobart hotel is making art its point of difference...

  • Jim Darby
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Created and performed by Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, takara nipaluna (walking Hobart) launched in February 2022.

Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart

This 90-minute experience highlights and honours the place, presence and stories of First Nations people in a city that has historically excluded them.

  • Elspeth Callender
Winemaker Nick Glaetzer has transformed an old ice factory on the edge of Hobart's CBD into Tasmania's first urban winery and tasting room.

Hobart urban wineries: Cellar doors within the Tasmanian capital city

Tasmania is known for its fresh produce and its gourmet, farm-to-table eating. What's most surprising is that this from-the-source experience is also available in the middle of Hobart.

  • Ben Groundwater
MONA's High Tea for Two is the museum's new - and secretive - experience for women only.

MONA Ladies Lounge high tea: Inside the secretive new, women-only experience

Secrets are hidden behind a jade-draped cube at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art.

  • Catherine Marshall
MACq01 at the waterfront with the former Henry Jones industrial complex (now housing the Henry Jones Art Hotel) behind.

MACq01 hotel review, Hobart, Tasmania: History in the making

With the mid-December opening of Hobart's Tasman, the highly-rated MACq01 has been presented with some serious competition.

  • Jim Darby

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