Tasmania's State Emergency Service provides update Monday, September 2
#LIVE: Tasmania SES is providing an update on the severe weather impacting the state.
Follow all of Monday's updates in our live blog: https://tinyurl.com/2adh6b54
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Worst of flooding 'yet to come' as Tasmania battens down the hatches
Tasmanians have been told to expect further flooding and high winds as a second cold front approaches the state.
🎥 Jano Gibson | ABC News
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Premier Jeremy Rockliff to speak on the severe weather across Tasmania
#LIVE: Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff is about to hold a press conference about the severe weather.
Live updates: https://shorturl.at/5bT61
This tree fell down on Tina Grant's house in George Town, in the north of the state.
Mic Hael captured this burst water pipe in Launceston during the wild weather.
Tasmanian SES update regarding wild weather
Tasmania SES is currently providing a LIVE update on Tasmania's severe weather.
When news is breaking, stay in the know. Download the ABC NEWS app: https://ab.co/abcnewsapp
Will the Tasmanian government last the full four-year term? | ABC Tassie Cast
It has been less than six months since the state election where voters gave the government a whack at the polls.
Now one minister has lost a portfolio and the Jacqui Lambie Network providing the government some stability has imploded. Will the Rockliff government manage to last the full four-year term?
Listen to ABC TassieCast on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
‘Appalling conditions’ at Royal Hobart Hospital maternity ward, union claims | ABC News
Tasmania's health department says it has been unable to corroborate a claim from the state's nursing and midwifery union that a baby died as a result of understaffing in the Royal Hobart Hospital's maternity ward.
Is the Jacqui Lambie Network imploding? | ABC News
If you've paid any attention to Australian politics in the past decade, you've likely heard of Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie – but is her name’s sake party already imploding?
Oh no!
The well-known little blue boat in Montrose Bay has lost its mooring, spotted caught up against the Montrose boardwalk earlier today.
A reminder that there is currently a severe weather warning for the entire state due to damaging winds.
A cold front is forecast to cross Tasmania this evening and is expected to bring very strong northwesterly winds across the state today and westerly winds tomorrow.
A series of fronts will cross Tasmania during this week, with total accumulated rainfall likely to be greater than 100mm in parts of these catchments and widespread minor flooding is possible.
🎥: Tania Tonks.
For the latest weather warnings: www.bom.gov.au/tas
For the latest listen to ABC Radio Hobart on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff has accepted Michael Ferguson’s resignation as infrastructure minister over the bungled rollout of new Spirit of Tasmania vessels.
Is Tasmania "heading off a financial cliff"?
The state's financial position is on track to "become worse than that of any other state or territory over the next three years", and the deterioration is "entirely attributable" to state government policy, an independent review of the state's finances has found.
To unpack what all of this means, state political reporter Adam Langenberg hoped on this week's episode of the ABC TassieCast podcast with Airlie Ward.
Listen to ABC TassieCast on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
A new language and literacy screening tool is part of a plan to improve Australian students' literacy
For many children, problems with language and literacy often do not show up until after they start learning to read.
But an innovative screening tool can be used on children as young as three to identify issues with language and literacy.
🎤 Fiona Blackwood | ABC News
More: https://shorturl.at/Nkfcj
If you had the chance, what would you tell your future self?
Ahead of an overseas move, Hobart singer Dana Badcock shares what she would tell her future self if she had the opportunity with ABC Local Radio Hobart's Ryk Goddard.
Listen live to ABC Radio Hobart on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
Vision: Supplied.
The proposed AFL stadium for Hobart is a bit like pineapple on pizza. Some love it, some hate it and others can take it or leave it.
In this week's TassieCast episode, Airlie Ward unpacks this divisive issue with ABC sports reporter Chris Rowbottom.
Listen to ABC TassieCast on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
Bring your pet to work
A program promoting pets in the workplace says having dogs and cats in the office improves staff productivity, increases collaboration and alleviates stress and anxiety.
Women's connection with Antarctica
Antarctica was once a forbidden place for women. Now a new interactive exhibition showcases the connection women have with the coldest, driest and windiest continent on the planet.
🎥 Jano Gibson | ABC News
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Increasing wealth divide hurting young Australians
Rapidly growing house prices and sluggish wage growth means many young people have given up on the idea of ever becoming home owners.
It's left working couples like Erin and Jack seeing themselves as 'forever renters'.
🎥 Fiona Blackwood | @abcnews_au
Gruelling 170km walk in steps of cannibal convict Alexander Pearce
Would you be up for this? 🏕️
Almost two centuries on from the death of notorious convict cannibal Alexander Pearce, six plucky and experienced walkers retraced his steps through some of the harshest Tasmanian country in the south-west of the state.
More: https://shorturl.at/kd4J0
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"The support I have gotten from people, from my community, I appreciate this with my whole heart."
A tearful Devarshi Deka has thanked the community, and his friends and family for their support and advocacy that helped him secure permanent residency in Australia and, with it, ongoing health care.
An alleged assault in Hobart last year left Mr Deka, an international student from India, a paraplegic.
🎤 Jano Gibson for ABC News
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