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A new $64m facility planned for the Port of Burnie will load ships twice as fast and give Tasmanian miners the green light to bump up exports. DETAILS >>
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A Tasmanian indigenous man has asked Canberra to make Robbins Island a protected area as a wind farm plan pushes ahead. LATEST >>
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Tasmanian urban and rural schools and colleges are regularly struggling to find enough relief teachers to cover absent staff, the Australian Education Union has warned.
There are less than three days until polls close in the local government by-elections brought on by the resignation of three mayors, but fewer than half of the ratepayers have cast a vote.
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