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For more than a month, adult little penguins from a colony on Tasmania's east coast have not been coming ashore to feed their young, leading to chick deaths. Experts believe sea temperatures have ...

Tanya Plibersek’s renewed attempt to create a federal Environment Protection Agency inflames tensions in WA, a state that ...

Two interstate hikers were rescued on Friday morning from a mountainside in Freycinet National Park, on Tasmania's east coast. They were walking when they got into trouble and were "unable to ...

For Maggie Mackellar, writing was never in her plans. She initially wanted to be a vet or mountain climber before eventually ...

Wild weather is expected to continue through the weekend, with ongoing thunderstorms on the east coast and a tropical cyclone ...

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Millions on the east coast are hunkering down for a weekend of wild weather ... A total of 1.8million lightning strikes were ...

The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for the Environment and WaterThe Hon Malarndirri McCarthy, Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator for the ...

From an island in the Bass Strait to Tasmania's famous East Coast, here are seven hobby farms that could be your forever home ...

Despite injuries continuing to wreak havoc with its NBL title defence, Tasmania coach Scott Roth is determined his ...