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Aussie school students are planning to skip class and join a global climate strike

Bunbury student strike leaders BellaBurgemeister and Lachlan Kelly say they're doing it to show politicians that urgent action is needed.







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How to make a compost shower



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Poo-eating beetles and charcoal used by WA farmer to combat climate change

An innovative West Australian farmer uses charcoal and exotic dung beetles to boost soil fertility and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from his cattle, and international researchers are taking note.




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Lithium mine expansion opens, as growth tipped to trump trade wars

Owners of the world's largest lithium mine predict production can top 2 million tonnes if expansion projects get the green light.





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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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Anna Bagshaw is working to help soldiers transition to civilian life.



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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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Tasmania news: Dozens of little penguins found dead, boat death findings to be handed down

DAILY BRIEFING: More than 30 little penguins are found dead near Wynyard, a family raises money for their three-year-old daughter's cancer treatment and a coroner hands down his findings into four boating deaths.





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Tasmanian Labor Party vows never to make 'mistake' of working with Greens again

Opposition Leader Rebecca White vows to ditch the Greens as party faithful meet in Burnie for Labor's first Tasmanian gathering since suffering a bruising federal election defeat.




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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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Tasmania news: Escapee not dangerous police say, call to end 'mind-blowing' wildlife cull

DAILY BRIEFING: Police are still looking for escapee Jake Mark Pearce, the Greens want an end to wildlife culls after six permits were issued to kill platypus.




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Tasmania news: Tattooist murder trial begins, hundreds of Temco jobs threatened

DAILY BRIEFING: A trial gets underway for the alleged murder of Dwayne Davies who was shot more than two years ago, 300 jobs at Temco are at risk and the cause of penguin deaths is identified.




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Physical abuse, use of chemical restraints among complaints to aged care watchdog in Tasmania

When Jane Rankin-Reid moved her mum Shirlee into an aged care home in Hobart, she hoped she'd live out her twilight years in comfort and dignity. But the elderly woman's life soon became a nightmare.




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Tasmanian news: Speaker Sue Hickey pauses parliament over pay row, police officer to plead guilty over strip search

DAILY BRIEFING: Tasmania's Speaker pauses parliament as tensions run high over her bid for a pay rise, and a police officer charged over the strip search of an 11-year-old boy indicates she'll plead guilty.




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Tasmanians celebrate gender law milestone

Controversial new laws allowing people to amend the gender on their birth certificate without reassignment surgery have come into effect, allowing people like Francene Jacques to be "buried an old woman".




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Hungry seals to cop water spray deterrent under new Tassal application

Tasmania's largest salmon producer applies for a research permit to trial spraying water on seals to move them away from fish farming pens, but the Greens say the proposal raises serious animal welfare concerns.






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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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Burnie Show into its hundredth year, thanks to generations of farming families

A typical show day for Gary Clarke involves getting up early to wash and blow-dry his Hereford cattle before the crowds arrive. It is dedication like this which has helped the humble Burnie Show reach its 100th year.





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Tulips are a tourist attraction



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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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Accused Claremont serial killer pleads guilty to historic attacks on women

The accused Claremont serial killer, Bradley Edwards, has pleaded guilty to attacks on two women in the years leading up to the disappearance of Sarah Spiers.








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Flinders Island's young entrepreneurs grow adventure tourism and foodie haven to keep economy moving

Tourism operators on one of Tasmania's breathtaking islands are riding a wave of untapped beauty and are reeling in visitors with locally grown produce.




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'Renoir' recovered in museum audit turned out to have pixels

Staff working in a government building in Tasmania thought they struck gold when they found an artwork by Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the office walls, but museum curators were able to confirm it was a reproduction when they magnified the image and saw there were pixels.




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Arborists at Calstock

Climb a 40 metre elm tree to see arborists at work at Deloraine's historic Calstock






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Daryl Deutscher runs a rare turkey farm at Dadswell's Bridge in western Victoria.




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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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Sentinel turkeys keep us one step ahead of flu, providing blood for up-to-date vaccines

Turkeys bred on a farm in western Victoria are at the centre of the global fight to improve the flu vaccine.






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Mayor agrees to apologise for introducing MP Emma Kealy as 'best-looking politician in Victoria'

Hindmarsh Shire mayor Ron Ismay comes under criticism for using sexist language when introducing the Nationals MP Emma Kealy at an event in Nhill in western Victoria, later saying it "was not that big of a deal".




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Rain salesman says his business is attracting investors, but experts say his claims don't stack up

A man who claims he can make it rain is building a following in the Victorian grain belt, where a group of farmers have paid for rainfall between May and October.