6+ hour, 17+ min ago  (322+ words) TasPorts has donated 20 refurbished iPhones to a Hobart crisis service, giving women and children leaving family violence access to phones that can’t be tracked by an abuser. The phones went to Jireh House, a Tasmanian service that provides safe housing…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (263+ words) Two isolated towns on Tasmania’s West Coast have been connected to the state’s fibre network, in an upgrade the federal government says will deliver more reliable, higher-capacity internet. Zeehan and Tullah are now linked to Tasmania’s existing fibre network, giving…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (723+ words) Tasmania is set to get its first new undersea fibre optic cable to the mainland in more than 20 years, through a new deal between local tech company Firmus and cable builder SUBCO. The cable, named Bernacchi-1 after Tasmanian-raised Antarctic explorer…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (11+ words) Community members were 'blown away' by the size of the space...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (319+ words) A hardware fault knocked out mobile services in Queenstown this week, the latest in a string of Telstra outages plaguing Tasmania’s West Coast. The West Coast Council has called the “ongoing and widespread” outages unacceptable and demanded immediate action. “When…...

10+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (348+ words) A young Tasmanian man and previously convicted sex offender has failed in his bid to overturn bans from popular dating apps Tinder and Hinge. Alex McGeary claimed Match Group discriminated against him on the basis of an ‘irrelevant criminal record…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (207+ words) Hobart councillors have backed in a plan to install secure collection boxes at four council sites to gather donated mobile phones for domestic violence survivors. The council is partnering with national charity DV Safe Phone, which refurbishes old devices and…...