Tasmania is home to six major outlaw motorcycle gangs with members spread across all corners of the state, although around 40 operate throughout Australia. SEE WHICH GANGS OPERATE IN TASSIE, AND WHERE THEY’RE BASED >>
Saving life and preventing suffering are noble goals, but when the two are in conflict, things get tricky. The proposed legislation introduced to parliament this week aims to reconcile the two sides.
Hundreds of Tasmanian FIFO workers are unlikely to see their families before close to Christmas, with the State Government refusing to budge on easing their quarantine restrictions. Read the Premier’s full response to FIFO workers >>
Border closures are keeping Tasmanian FIFO workers locked out of their state, their homes and away from their kids and families — while interstate ‘essential workers’ are let in. READ THEIR PLEA TO THE PREMIER >>
AUSTRALIAN troops faced unspeakable horrors on the beach and hills of the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. But they embodied a special temperament that helped them through the atrocious battlefield conditions.
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“THE sun shall turn to darkness, and the moon into blood, before the Lord comes.” That could be Sunday.
THE time is now. That much is clear to anyone. But it especially weighs on the mind of Colin Barnett. The state’s 29th Premier doesn’t want to waste what he calls one of the “three great periods” in our history.
JILL Meagher’s murderer Adrian Ernest Bayley has been convicted of raping three more women during secret trials spanning half a year. The untold story of his evil crimes can finally be revealed.
THEIR bite has twice the pressure of a regular dog’s and they have the training and intelligence to work in warzones. This is the ferocious side of man’s best friend.
POLICE are confident the conviction of Daniel Kelsall has prevented further killings, as it emerged he stalked another man and followed him to his front door just a week after murdering Morgan Huxley.
TO crack the case of the murder of Morgan Huxley, police had to hold every piece of his life up to the light- and the dating life of the comfortably single man suddenly became front page news.
GENGHIS Khan really, really didn’t want his body to be found. But now the 800-year-old murderous wall of deception he built up around his final resting place is starting to crumble.
AUSTRALIA’S weather could be about to get hotter and drier. Why? We’re on the cusp of another El Nino. Here’s how it may affect us.
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