SA and Tasmania brace for blue victory at March 15 elections

Christian Kerr discovers the archetypal Tasmanian Greens politician - the kind to guarantee this Greens birthplace remains the poorest state in our land: Strewth is much taken by Braddon contender Philip Nicholas , as summarised by the ABC's ...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Tasmania and South Austrlaia to vote out their Labor governments. Source: News Corp Australia PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has urged Tasmania and South Australia to make the change to Liberal state ...

, ( 8:29am ) ANYONE looking at Tasmania must conclude the ­island state is a political and economic basket case. Unfortunately, the preposterous Hare-Clark voting system Tasmanians have adopted to elect the 25 members of its House of ...

Botha will miss the crucial Shield clash with Tasmania Source: Daniel Kalisz / SOUTH Australian captain Johan Botha has withdrawn his appeal against a one-match ban for ball tampering and will miss the Redbacks crucial Sheffield Shield ...

Tasmania Police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was last seen at her home in southern Tasmania yesterday afternoon. Emily Peachtree was last seen by her mother at Cygnet just after 4:00pm (AEDT) yesterday afternoon, wearing a black shirt, ...

New Brisbane Lions coach Justin Leppitsch will do well to prevent their AFL season-opener becoming a case of Lions to the slaughter. No one outside Brisbane will give them any chance of beating reigning premier Hawthorn on March 22 in Launceston. ...

Tasmanian firefighters working to control and quell a fire at a coal mine at Morwell, Victoria. Source: News Corp Australia WITH little or no fanfare a team of Tasmanian firefighters has been working to help bring the massive 1000ha ...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott was right last week to describe foresters as the ''ultimate conservationists''. He said he would seek to delist 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest marked for World Heritage protection. Those working in the timber ...

, ( 5:03am ) Maurice Newman, chairman of Tony Abbott's highly influential Business Advisory Council, on the ruination of Tasmania by the Left: Tasmania is also a stronghold of the Greens. Its politics are a reflection of voters ...