Fonterra’s Mainland IPO milks investor thirst for new ideas
The guts of the business is to take milk from Australia and New Zealand farms, turn it into cheese and butter, and sell it ...
Egg-laying mammal — feared locally extinct after wildfire — rediscovered in Australia
Echidnas are egg-laying, insect-eating mammals native to Australia, according to the Australian Museum. The country has only one species, the short-beaked echidna, which can be found throughout the ...
Native mistletoe blossoms as positive parasite across mainland Australia
Australian mistletoe has gone from being viewed as a parasite harming native trees to being a Robin Hood figure in the ...
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Tasmania records 10 straight quarters of interstate losses, with over 5,400 moving to the mainland
Tasmania has recorded another quarter of population loss due to people moving interstate, with a total of 5,472 residents ...
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Getting Around Tasmania
To get to Tasmania from mainland Australia, you can take a Spirit of Tasmania ferry from Melbourne to Devonport. Most ferries depart at 7:30 p.m. daily, but select days have sailings at 9 a.m ...
Old botanical surveys help researchers track how plants on Australia's islands are changing
More than 8,000 continental islands sit just off the coast of Australia, many of them uninhabited and unspoiled. For ...