Devonport
Mother lashes out during Hillcrest jumping castle court hearing
The mother of one of the six children killed in a primary school jumping castle tragedy has directed her anger at the owner of the company accused of workplace safety breaches over the incident.
- by Ethan James
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Nine places you must stop on Tasmania’s Tasting Trail
The Apple Isle is a place of plenty for the food, wine and beer, the cheese and chocolate, and country hospitality.
- by Jim Darby
Devonport family’s double heartache revealed at son’s funeral
There was even more sadness at the Christmas Eve funeral of 12-year-old Jye Sheehan in Devonport, as news emerged of the serious injuries the boy’s father had sustained in a separate accident.
- by Nina Hendy
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Zane remembered as a gamer, dinosaur lover and ‘the man of the house’
The young mother of Zane Mellor has given an emotional tribute to her 12-year-old son, who died in last week’s Devonport jumping castle tragedy.
- by Nina Hendy
Devonport jumping castle tragedy claims sixth life
Police confirmed another child had died of his injuries at Royal Hobart Hospital on Sunday.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Three children fight for life as details emerge about Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy
Immediate family members have kept watch by the children’s bedside since the tragedy occurred at Devonport’s Hillcrest Primary School on Thursday.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Cassandra Morgan
PM Morrison and wife Jenny visit Devonport school tragedy site
The PM and his wife have visited Hillcrest Primary School to mourn the loss of the five children who died in a tragic accident there.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Cassandra Morgan
‘Australia is one with them’: PM arrives in Tasmania after Hillcrest jumping castle tragedy
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised close to $1 million for trauma counselling for the Devonport community after the shocking jumping castle tragedy.
- by James Massola
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Victims identified as tributes flow for five who died in Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy
Tasmania Police on Friday named the children who died as Addison Stewart, 11, Zane Mellor, 12, Jye Sheehan, 12, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, 12, and Peter Dodt, 12.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola, Ashleigh McMillan and Cassandra Morgan
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Five children dead, several critical after jumping castle blown into air at Tasmanian primary school
Five children have died and another four are in a critical condition after falling from a jumping castle that was blown into the air at a primary school in Devonport.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Marta Pascual Juanola
Two dead, one injured in ‘confronting’ Tasmanian shooting
Two men have died and a woman has been hospitalised after a shooting at a home on Tasmania’s north coast where two young children were present.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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