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25.01.2022 Wishing everyone a safe and happy Easter - hope you get to enjoy some sunshine in the backyard #happyeaster #staylocalstayconnected #

25.01.2022 Three Greater Hobart residents are fine-tuning their leadership skills in the community sector by participating in the fourth annual Emerging Community Leaders program. Developed by the Tasmanian Community Fund, the program improves leadership skills in the community sector, particularly in rural and regional areas. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4208

24.01.2022 The internationally loved Tasmanian television series ‘Aussie Lobster Men’ has returned to TV screens for a third series this month. This season of the show will explore the unprecedented and challenging time for Tasmania’s rock lobster industry due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It will not only show the tales of life at sea, but also the resilience of Tasmanians working in the industry as they navigate the challenges.... Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4541

24.01.2022 The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens are preparing to welcome the community back through its gates with a number of projects underway behind the scenes. The Gardens received a stimulus package from the Tasmanian Government’s Public Building Maintenance Fund, which was developed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with $302,000 allocated to cover six essential maintenance projects. Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4324

22.01.2022 JACQUI and Nat Gray are fighting to introduce laws in Tasmania to allow people suffering from a terminal illness the right to choose how, where, when and with whom they end their life, following their mother, Diane Gray’s 11-month battle with cancer. Diane had just turned 58 when she died in hospital late 2019 with her two daughters by her side after being diagnosed with stage IV gastric cancer late 2018. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4431

21.01.2022 North Hobart will get its swing on with the Hobart Jazz Club delivering its 16th annual Hot August Jazz Festival on Sunday 30 August in numerous venues from noon until midnight. The festival will be the first live music festival in Tasmania since COVID-19 restrictions and has been given the sub-title of come out and play. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4535

20.01.2022 A development application has been lodged by Tasmanian company Ornatas for the construction of the world’s first rock lobster hatchery at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Taroona research laboratory site. If approved, the site will put Tasmania at the cutting edge of aquaculture by commercialising world-leading research that enables tropical rock lobster production on a commercial scale. Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4332... Photo credit: Fraser Johnston

19.01.2022 Hobart pubs and clubs have been poured a lifeline in the form of an initiative by Carlton & United Breweries and the Australia Hotels Association to help them survive the Coronavirus crisis. The ‘For the Love of Your Local’ campaign encourages Tasmanians to support their local and buy a pint of either Cascade Draught or Great Norther Super Crisp, with the cash going to the venue immediately. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4308

19.01.2022 A COMMUNITY organisation that provides professional attire for low income women to help support their job-search and interviews has received a $10,000 CommBank Staff Community Grant after being nominated by CommBank employee Annette Roberts. Dress for Success received the grant on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic where it had to shift its face-to-face services to online. READ FULL STORY: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4552

19.01.2022 Hobart City Mission has launched an Emergency Relief Appeal to fund the unprecedented demand for its services through the Coronavirus pandemic. The Appeal will raise funds for HCM’s Emergency Relief program that provides food packs, food vouchers and other support to people struggling to make ends meet. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4328

19.01.2022 More than 70 Tasmanian artists and creative organisations will share in more than $1.5 million in State Government funding through its arts, screen and music funds. Among those that received funding for the first stage of the Cultural and Creative Industries Stimulus Package was the Van Diemen’s Band. The Van Diemen’s Band received $36,000 in funding for a new music project tilted ‘The Song of the Birds’ in collaboration with the Youth Chorale of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra... and screen technology manufacturer Ignite Digi. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4455

14.01.2022 Tasmania Fire Service, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service and Sustainable Timber Tasmania are all partners in the state’s Fuel Reduction Program, which covers areas of both public and private land, to mitigate bushfire risk across the state. Our Fuel Reduction Program strategically reduces the risk in areas that provide the most protection to our communities, program manager Dr Louise Mendel said. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4251

14.01.2022 Working It Out (WIO), Tasmania’s gender, sexuality and intersex status support and education service, is offering a special Tasmanian COVID-19 initiative, ‘Working It Out Together’. The program draws on the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people and provides a mechanism for people to support each other. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4427

13.01.2022 A group of well-known Tasmanian GP clinics have issued an urgent appeal to patients don’t delay your GP visit because of COVID-19. General Practice Plus, which operates five clinics across Hobart and surrounding suburbs, has seen a 43 per cent decline of in-clinic appointments over the past month. Doctor Abby Rundle, who works out of the Cascade Road clinic in South Hobart, said people should not be avoiding seeing their doctors because of COVID-19, with General Practice Pl...us having launched a ‘don’t delay your GP visit’ campaign. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4310

12.01.2022 Hobart bicycle delivery service ShifterCargo has continued to pedal through the COVID-19 crisis to deliver goods for individuals and business. Shifter Cargo is a cargo bike courier service established by Tim Stredwick that offers an alternative to moving freight around an urban area to provide more ‘people’ space. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4265

09.01.2022 HOBART’S DarkLab has created an alternative outdoor market for locals to sell and purchase fresh produce at ‘In The Hanging Garden’s’ central Cathedral. The Hanging Garden Green Grocer was created as a way to support Tasmanian producers and the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The market opened on 20 May and will operate four days a week, with the site having been redesigned specifically to accommodate the endeavour.... https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4386

09.01.2022 Not even the ice-cold temperatures of the River Derwent could keep these thrill seekers at bay, with members of the Winter Ocean and Sea Swimming Association (WOSSA) braving the winter chill The WOSSA was established about four years ago and is a spin-off of the summer group, the Taroona Ocean and Sea Swimming Association (TOSSA), although with a few twists. Every Sunday, the group members, aptly titled the WOSSAs, gather on a beach at Taroona at 8:15am and take the plunge in...to the chilly waters. Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4358 Caption: From left, WOSSA members captain Stuart Tanner, former ABC newsreader Peter Gee, former Premier David Bartlett and other members doing the WOSSA salute.

09.01.2022 RESEARCHERS are celebrating the recent successful deployment of the University of Tasmania’s state-of-the-art Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) ‘nupiri muka’ in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica. During its second Antarctic summer, nupiri muka completed six missions, including a 60-kilometre round-trip along the sea floor beneath a sea-ice barrier adjacent to Thwaites Glacier, a significant source of Antarctic mass loss and sea-level rise. Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4253

07.01.2022 The Cancer Council Tasmania has launched its new Future Fund, with the aim to raise $10 million in 10 years Cancer Council of Tasmania chief executive officer Penny Egan said the COVID-19 pandemic had severely impacted the organisation. Cancer doesn’t retreat, she said.... https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4429

07.01.2022 The City of Hobart’s Hobart Together initiative is helping Hobartians feel connected, thanks to its stories of kindness and support being shared on an online, interactive message board. As part of the City’s Resilient Hobart program, a series of web pages containing useful information, advice and support resources was launched as the first stage of Hobart Together. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4330

03.01.2022 Grace Holliday and Chloe Moore have used their time in isolation to sew ISO cuddle bears to give to people living with disability who are still isolating because they’re at increased risk from COVID-19. Eleven-year-old Grace and 12-year-old Chloe met through sewing lessons at Frangipani Fabrics in North Hobart and later made plans for the ISO bears project via ZOOM. Read full story here: https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4457

02.01.2022 The streets around Hobart are quiet at this time of year, with families, flatmates and friends staying safe at home with lights and heating high and with a hot drink to guard against the cold winter outside. Elsewhere, a dedicated group of caring volunteers have been preparing to spend the night away from their loved ones to serve the less fortunate who don’t have a place to call home. On most nights, more than 50 people wait in the cold and dark for Loui’s Van to arrive to d...istribute winter clothes, a warm welcome and a hot meal. https://hobartobserver.com.au/?p=4447