The sale of Tasmania’s biggest farm to the UK’s largest forestry investor has been given the green light. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers agreed to the $100 million plus offer from the Tasmanian Natural Asset Trust, which is managed by the UK’s Gresham House, to buy Rushy Lagoon. The sprawling property, near Cape Portland, on the…
A Hong Kong tour group on an aurora-chasing boat ride near an island in Australia saved two fellow city residents who went missing while scuba diving, in a dramatic rescue the agency said “shone light on the brilliance of humanity”. WWPKG Tours detailed the rescue on Sunday in a Facebook post and commended tour group…
A Tasmanian man has lost a discrimination claim and subsequent appeal against the dating apps Tinder and Hinge, which banned him because he was a convicted child sex offender. Child safety advocate Kathryn Fordyce has applauded the rulings and the bans imposed by the dating apps, which she says have been used by paedophiles to…
When Mary Wang, a 27-year-old Chinese woman living in the West Australian capital of Perth, heard that thousands of anti-immigration protesters would be marching across the country late last month, she immediately cancelled plans to leave the house. Wang, who works in IT, was planning to continue her volunteer work teaching the elderly how to…