Manika Champ

A sheep bred in Tasmania for carpet wool is under threat of dying out in the next decade because people are opting for cheaper products, but a breeder has frozen ram semen to safeguard their future.

What was once a sheep paddock has now become one of Tasmania’s legendary racing circuits — where the legacy of driver John Youl continues to live on.

An ex-bodybuilder who waterboarded and suffocated the man he believed had stolen his $22,000 Nissan Patrol, resulting in the man’s death, is sentenced to 22 years’ jail for murder.

Tasmanian tax agent James Redmond Burrows was entrusted with very large sums of money by his clients but “deliberately and systematically betrayed that trust over a lengthy period”, a court has heard.