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Annie was living alone in the coastal Tasmanian community of George Town when strange things started to happen in her yard. “I found my Christmas lights were cut … there were things that were going missing,” she said. She was concerned about a man who had moved in with her next-door neighbour, so she started…
An artificial intelligence (AI) company will become Tasmania’s biggest power user if its ambitions to establish three “AI factories” in the state come to fruition. Singapore-based Firmus Technologies is building an AI factory in the Launceston suburb of St Leonards, which is expected to be operational early next year. Firmus has said the factory will…
To secure a good spot at her local library’s bustling baby and toddler sessions, mum of two Jasmin has to arrive at least half an hour early. But the Melton mother, aged 31, said the early arrival, 15-minute drive and search for a parking spot were worth it for the benefits to her children, aged…
An oversized concrete football sporting a cowboy hat sits in the middle of an open-air plaza, as a DJ pumps out bangers. Chants of “Nippon, Nippon” reverberate through the thick heat of a Dallas summer evening, and a man dressed in a glorious homemade cardboard armour concoction revs up the crowd. A Japanese supporter enjoys…
Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education for the first time in schools, workplaces, universities and homes. Japanese media reports that the plan is designed to promote public understanding and awareness of gender and sexual diversity in the country, which has not legalised same-sex marriage. The draft program reportedly notes that LGBTQIA+ people…
Walk through Sebastia today and the layers of history are visible everywhere. The West Bank town sits alongside an ancient mound whose stones have been shaped by the Israelite Kingdom, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Crusaders and the Ottomans. Beneath them, tradition holds, lies the tomb of Saint John the Baptist. The Palestinian…
The opportunity to start a business that had Indigenous employment and training at its centre was something Wonnarua man Scott Franks couldn’t turn down. It was a proposal that appealed to his cultural obligations and meant he could turn a profit while helping other First Nations people get a leg up. “[Indigenous people] establish a…
Australian travellers who collectively lost millions of dollars after their travel agency collapsed are calling on the federal government to overhaul consumer protections in the travel sector. Melbourne-based agency AVG Travels, which sold discounted international tour packages to Asia, Europe and Africa, was placed into liquidation in May. New documents lodged with ASIC show the…
Customers were still being encouraged to proceed with Dashdot’s property investment services just days before the buyer’s agency entered voluntary liquidation, according to emails and messages obtained by ABC News. The communications do not prove any wrongdoing occurred. But they raise fresh questions about what was happening inside the company in the weeks before its…
On the first day of the epic fundraising bike ride that professor Richard Scolyer undertook just 11 weeks before he died of brain cancer, he realised one leg of the route fell short of his 100-kilometre-per-day goal. So, he just kept riding. Loading… The fact the route he’d just finished was a climb from Tasmania’s…