3:18 PM AEDT | THE last thing that one Barossa winemaker wants is a kick in the butt.
It is not the possibility of personal injury or a dislike of the Americanism associated with the saying.
For Grant Burge it...
3:17 PM AEDT | Christmas is a time of family and friends, of fine foods and celebrating together. It is never too soon to start making delicious things and storing them in the lead up to Christmas.
3:06 PM AEDT | To dear Santa,
I like your whiskers. I will leave you some cake. You will be able to see our christmas lights that my daddy put up.
- JARRAH SMITH, 2, Riverside.
dearest Santa,
to the...
3:04 PM AEDT | The Tasmania Fire Service cannot stress enough to people who live in areas at high risk of bushfire, to be prepared.
"It must be recognised that in limited cases, some buildings, due to their constr...
3:02 PM AEDT | Over the last two bushfire seasons the Tasmania Fire Service has distributed a free DVD, Bushfire - Prepare To Survive, to home owners throughout the State whose properties are at risk from bushfire.
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3:02 PM AEDT | As the bushfire season approaches, the Tasmania Fire Service is making preparations, and acting chief officer Mike Brown is urging Tasmanians whose homes are in or within 100m of bushland to do the sa...
3:00 PM AEDT | TWO people have been killed in a car crash on the Bass Highway west of Devonport. Police say the first fatality was an elderly woman who died at the scene. An elderly man died later . . .
2:47 PM AEDT | Economists say that while the Reserve Bank has moved rates to the "easy" side of neutral, more cuts are likely. JORDAN CHONG reports
SYDNEY - The Reserve Bank of Australia has shifted official...
2:43 PM AEDT | Metcash profit drop; Oil prices dive; Chinese investment.
2:23 PM AEDT | WORKERS affected by the upcoming water and sewerage reforms will meet their union today in Launceston.
The Australian Services Union will establish a set of key principles to ensure that the conti...
2:22 PM AEDT | Jail for bat death; Chicks protest at KFC.
2:19 PM AEDT | STARGAZERS might have noticed an unusual smiley face formation of the moon, Venus and Jupiter in Northern skies on Monday night.
Martin George, of the Launceston Planetarium at the Queen Victoria Mu...
12:48 PM AEDT | Sadly I have received a letter from the general manager of the Australian Maritime College on the decommissioning of the Beauty Point pool.
The pool is to be converted into an applied laboratory for ...
12:48 PM AEDT | Seal deaths: The issue of seal killing is very sad. Seals are bashed to death for meat and fur. I believe that seal killing should be banned in all areas of the world.
It is heartbreaking to see imag...
12:48 PM AEDT | By DAVE PITMAN, Australian Education Union Northern regional organiser IT MAY well be the festive season but it also appears to be the season for some teacher bashing from the likes of Rupert M...
12:45 PM AEDT | We constantly hear pensioners' complaints of being unable to cope financially on the pension. My grandmother is on the pension and she seems to cope quite well.
Of course, she doesn't smoke, ...
12:44 PM AEDT | TAKE time out this morning from the celebrations of tumbling petrol prices and interest rates, and keep an eye on the credit card.
Australians are asking "what crisis?" because there seems to be mon...
12:42 PM AEDT | Pirates foiled; Bombers praised; Suspensions.
12:42 PM AEDT | CHICAGO - Police have arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson in the shooting deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew.
William Balfour, 27, was arrested yes...
12:40 PM AEDT | CHICAGO - US President-elect Barack Obama has nominated his former political rival Hillary Clinton for the post of US Secretary of State and has persuaded Defence Secretary Robert Gates to stay on, bu...