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House-sitting on the rise for older people in financial stress or on verge of homelessness

Sue Prince turned to house-sitting when her home was repossessed but advocates say the trend could be hiding the true picture of homelessness in Australia.




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Meet the Western Australians who took on the Mongol Derby, the world's toughest horse race

Imagine navigating a 1,000km journey across the vast Mongolian wilderness atop a feisty horse, racing 40 others to finish first.




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Capel mother Cassandra Doohan murdered baby Anastasia Hand days after tip-off over injuries

Child protection authorities were tipped off about the mistreatment of baby Anastasia Hand 16 days before her mother violently and fatally shook the infant at the family's home south of Perth, a court is told.




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Mother Cassandra Doohan who murdered her baby Anastasia Hand fails to avoid life jail term

A judge has ruled a young West Australian mother who violently shook her baby daughter to death must serve a life jail term, with at least 13 years behind bars before she can be released.





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Seller of The Big Issue in Bunbury struggles to sell street mag due to 'tough economic times'

The Big Issue has been helping disadvantaged and homeless people earn an income for almost 30 years, but one seller says a recent price increase has triggered a drop in sales and income.






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The Big Issue Price has increased to $9




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Knickers the giant steer makes a packet for Blue Tree Project in brief return to limelight

One year on, 2018's most unlikely internet sensation, Knickers the giant steer, has put his big hoof forward for a good cause, raising more than $14,000 in the process.




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Coffee catch-up at the Bunbury RSL



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After serving as a soldier for 17 years, Dane Greenstreet left the army



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Dane Greenstreet serving in the Australian Army for almost 17 years before being medically discharged.




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WA mother says Curtin University camp was inappropriate when it allowed teenagers to change behind bushes

A WA university has removed an activity from a camp for high schoolers after a mother complained that teenagers were told to change out of wet clothing behind a bush.




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The Nightingale roots horror in Tasmania's colonial history with a tale of revenge

In Jennifer Kent's award-winning follow-up to the Babadook, a young convict woman teams up with a young Aboriginal man for revenge in 19th century Tasmania.



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Damon Herriman in The Nightingale




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Baykali Ganambarr and Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale




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Aisling Franciosi stands with horse in The Nightingale




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Sam Claflin in The Nightingale




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Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale




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How can one half of Tasmania be inundated with rain while the other half is dry?

Tasmania's east coast is experiencing some of its driest conditions on record, but in the west there has been record high winter rainfall. How can the weather vary so much in such a small state?




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Mother of boating victim condemns lax marine safety legislation

The mother of one of four men who died on a fishing trip on waters near Hobart says she is disappointed the investigating coroner did not recommend changes to Tasmania's marine safety legislation.




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Heavy smokers 'will spend $10,000 a year', with addicts saying tax hike won't stop them

Alice says the tobacco tax increase won't act as an incentive to break the addiction because smoking already has a "hold" on her life.




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Aurora Australis visible from Tasmania leaves southern lights chasers in awe

Aurora chasers around Tasmania are treated to a spectacular display of the southern lights in conditions described as "just perfect".




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Tasmania News: Conman who posed as TV producer jailed, Tasmanians sandbag ahead of severe weather

DAILY BRIEFING: A Launceston man who posed as a television producer is jailed for fraud, and heavy rain falls across the state.




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Croissants are 30 per cent pure butter, so these producers are making sure it's good

Australians love and will pay top prices for proper coffee, stinky cheese, and top-of-the-range wines and olive oils. Now butter has joined that list.




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Beekeepers preparing for pollination keen to put shocker season behind them

The heat is on beekeepers to deliver healthy hives for pollination this spring and into the summer.






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Tulips proving popular with tourists in north west Tasmania but it's the soil where the real work is going on

Tourists flock to this tulip farm to see the flowers, but it is under the ground where the serious farming is happening.




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Inside the working farm that inspired the father of Australian colonial art, John Glover

When Carol Westmore bought a farm near Launceston 15 years ago, she inadvertently embarked on a mammoth heritage-restoration project.







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Blood from Daryl Deutscher's Dadswells Bridge rare turkeys is being used to improve the global flu vaccine.








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The Debt

...at the heart of all this is -a disastrously skewed mission that ends up with the three young agents and their prisoner trapped in an East Berlin flat, dumped by their own colleagues and the Americans...




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Movie Review: The Ides of March

Beware The Ides of March? Not unless you want to miss a cracking new Clooney film!




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The Ides of March

George Clooney returns to the directors chair, and delivers an entertaining drama about the darker side of politics.




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The Kid with a Bike

The Kid with a Bike is a spare film, with only two main characters and runs for only 88 minutes, but by the end we are so tense from watching the title character, Cyril (Thomas Doret), and his near disastrous progress through the film that when my mother and I have a minor drama in the car park that we become almost hysterical with laughter, so tightly wound has the story made us.




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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Swedish bestseller makes its English-language film debut in a stylish and impressive work from David Fincher.




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The Adventures of Tintin

Ah, what more could the vanished, sweet child in us all want?




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The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep saves the day with an extraordinary performance in an otherwise disappointing biopic of the British PM.





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Movie Review - The Artist

A sweethearted romantic Hollywood tale told with the affectation of being black and white and silent.




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The Artist

It may be silent, but Michel Hazanavicius' creation has a wonderful voice and sings a song in celebration of cinema.