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.
A program designed to help Tasmanians fill out government documents and connect them with legal resources has been suspended while it waits for funding.
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.
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.
Tasmania’s rural north-east is struggling with a GP shortage as its population ages and an increasing number of people are diagnosed with a chronic or mental illness.