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• The stadium report came as no surprise to a government that had made up its mind

  The fate of Hobart's proposed stadium was never tied to the planning commission's report. Not when the government had long already made up its mind. 2025-09-17 20:46:13

• The three big reasons the planning commission rejected the stadium

  The Tasmanian Planning Commission described the Hobart stadium as a "singular, large, bulky monolith" with "optimism bias" in the government's cost-benefit figures. What does this mean for the stadium? 2025-09-17 05:29:54

• Tasmania's only large-scale private mental health clinic to close after 40 years

  The Hobart Clinic, which employs 100 people and has provided private mental health services for Tasmanians for 40 years, will close its inpatient site by the end of October, citing financial woes. 2025-09-17 03:55:36

• Major threat to Australian grains industry found in imported nappy pants

  Authorities are investigating how khapra beetle, the number-one-priority pest for the grains industry, entered Australia. 2025-09-17 01:31:02

• Hobart's planned AFL stadium 'too big, too costly', report finds

  The proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium in Hobart should not proceed, a long-awaited assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommends. 2025-09-16 23:31:48