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Labor wants mental health answers - Tasmania's Health Minister says the government is rock solid committed to an extra 25 mental health beds in southern Tasmania, after facing accusati ...

Second shark attack at north Qld island - A girl has been attacked by a shark at the same Queensland island where a Tasmanian mother was mauled less than 24 hours earlier.A rescue helicopter f ...

New alliance helps to keep guns off streets - The founder of the Alannah and Madeline foundation, set up to honour his two daughters murdered in the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, is concerned gu ...

Strawberry perpetrators 'should do time' - So-called "food terrorists" will face 10 to 15 years behind bars after the government rushed tough new penalties through parliament.The gove ...

Coles, Woolworths announce milk levy - Customers will pay more for home-branded milk at Coles and Woolworths stores, with the levy to be passed on to dairy farmers gripped by drought.The su ...

Bellamy defends Storm from Shark attack - Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy says Cronulla's verbal attack on his team is laughable, adding further spice to their NRL preliminary final on Friday ni ...

PM vows crackdown on food tampering "grubs" - Tasmania Police is investigating three more deliberate metal contaminations in Woolworths fruit. Supermarket giant Woolworths is taking the extraor ...

Woolworths pulls sewing needles from sale - Supermarket giant Woolworths has taken the extraordinary step of withdrawing sewing needles from its shelves nationally following the fruit tampering ...

Shark attack - An off-duty emergency doctor has helped save the life of a Tasmanian tourist bitten by a shark in Queensland's Whitsundays. The quick-thinking medi ...

Tasmanian boy finds metal pin in apple - A nine-year-old Tasmanian boy has reportedly found a metal pin inside an apple.Police were told of the alleged contamination incident on Wednesday aft ...

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