Reporter at @themercurycomau. Focusing on city life and transport in Tasmania. 📧: [email protected].

Hobart, Tasmania
Joined February 2016
I’ve finished up at @ExaminerOnline / @theadvocatetas and started a new gig at @themercurycomau last week. Please send whatever scoops you may have to [email protected] - I am not picky! 🗞
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With the two best-selling iPad apps in the world, Tassie software developer, Procreate, has had a stratospheric rise over the past decade. And now it’s plotting a move to a new Hobart HQ as part of an “ambitious” growth strategy themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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Why one of Hobart’s top pubs will be forced to close its doors themercury.com.au/news/tasma…
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Over the past 6 years, the nation’s biggest bus company has quietly built a Tassie empire, amassing a fleet larger than Metro’s. And it has plans for further growth, underpinned by a $10m capital investment program themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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Just as public confidence in Hobart’s public transport system has taken a nosedive, the state government is devising a long-term plan it says will bring about transit changes the likes of which the city has “never experienced before” #politas themercury.com.au/news/tasma…
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Macquarie St, Davey St upgrades: 100 parking spaces on chopping block as work set to begin themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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Metro Tasmania suspended bus services ‘a way off’ from being restored, review set for March themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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★ Growth Spurt ▫Tasmania’s population growth rate is projected to crack a significant milestone over the course of the next decade ▫@rg_inglis ★ #frontpagestoday #Tasmania @themercurycomau
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PM Anthony Albanese on the Tasmanian government’s business case for a new stadium at Macquarie Point, which hinges on a $240m funding contribution from the Commonwealth #politas
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RTI cameo from #politas hall of famer @rg_inglis A Tas Govt dept worried about only having 34 hours left to respond to two questions
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Tasmanian Liberal senator Wendy Askew is urging the state government to consider making nuclear power part of the island's energy mix - but the idea has been met with a lukewarm reception themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau #politas
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Bridget Archer: book reveals explosive claims about Morrison staffers themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
Premier spruiks ‘game-changer’ AFL stadium despite poll shock theaustralian.com.au/nation/… #afl #politas #auspol
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Services Australia has scrapped plans to move its Hobart operations into a major new CBD office development, putting the MONA-linked project under a cloud themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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The ALP's review of its 2022 federal election campaign has identified the party's underperformance in Tasmania as a key issue it needs to address in order to remain in power for more than one term themercury.com.au/news/polit… via @themercurycomau #politas
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I don't think I've commented on @AdamHolmes010 before and I like what I see. The beard is well trimmed and the ABC News rain jacket word with flair. #GenderBalancingClothingCommentary #ABCNationalNews
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A leaked report has probed the recruitment of six employees at a Tasmanian council and found that a third of its staff have experienced workplace bullying - but the council is refusing to release the full document themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
'If I wasn’t angry, I think I would be a f***ing psychopath': I spoke to Grace Tame about politics, trauma, the allure of Tasmania, and maintaining the rage themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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A Tim Tam-loving union official has been banned from sharing “foodstuffs” with teachers at Catholic schools. Catholic Education Tasmania has been commended - sarcastically - by the union for taking workplace safety “very seriously” themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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Brenda Hean disappeared without a trace in 1972 on her way to Canberra to generate support for the campaign to save Lake Pedder. Now, 50 years later, her descendants have taken it upon themselves to finish the job themercury.com.au/news/tasma… via @themercurycomau
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Bullying and discrimination rife in parliamentary, ministerial and MP's offices, report finds. #politas themercury.com.au/news/tasma…
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