Hobart, Australia News

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May.

THREE Tasmanians have made the BRW Rich List for 2012, but they trail the world's richest woman Gina Rinehart by a country mile.

Residents have been spoilt for choice with a number of new players in the market.

KIDS as young as four are wandering suburban Hobart streets late at night without adult supervision, prompting calls for action from welfare advocates.

PACK LEADERS: The Australian tap dance event Tap Dogs in full flight. Tap Dogs is coming to Hobart to perform at the Derwent Entertainment Centre in August.

AS cost-of-living pressures bite hard on Tasmanians, a national survey has revealed that Hobart residents may be better off than they think.

THERE will be a lot of deep thinking going on in Hobart next week when the city hosts a major psychiatry conference, which organisers predict will pump millions into the economy.

Last week's 74m sale of a version of Munch's The Scream was nothing. The first day of a new sale at Christies in New York this week saw an astonishing $388.5m lavished upon post-war and contemporary art.

EDMOND ROY: In farm paddocks across Australia, large dogs are now working essentially as bodyguards to protect sheep, goats and even chickens.

As the sun started to set in Hobart, Australia -- where I was performing that night -- I became sadder and sadder.

HOBART country band The Wolfe Brothers rocked Australia's Got Talent again last night and now they're banking on their Tassie fans to help them take another step towards the $250,000 first prize.

TASMANIA'S struggling economy will face a shortfall of half a billion dollars in federal funding over the next three financial years.

Meet legendary drug agent Don Ferrarone as he fights the drug war along the Mexican border.

SIX Tasmanian tourism projects have been included on a list of 80 investment-ready developments the Federal Government is pitching to overseas developers.

The Australian Greens have chosen a former merchant banker-turned winemaker and conservationist to fill retiring leader Bob Brown's Tasmanian Senate seat.

House prices tumbled 1.1 percent in the first three months of the year, eating into the wealth of many Australians.

BRIGHTON'S new and only GP will see his first patients today when the local clinic opens for the first time in 10 months.