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Brian Allen

Josie Pinkerton in her UTAS women's jersey and while playing for Launceston Tornadoes this season (insert). Pictures by Brian Allen, supplied by Launceston Tornadoes 

Josie enjoying balancing act between basketball and study.

Former Launceston Tornadoes basketballers help get Pinkerton to club

Joe Colbrook

Ron Hulm gave the guest address at Longford's 2024 Anzac Day service. Picture by Joe Colbrook

Ron Hulm reflects on how times have changed since his stint in Vietnam.

'We were sent to do a job and we did it': Reflections of a 'Nasho'

Hamish Geale

Many Launceston residents have reported seeing low-flying drones near their homes. Pictures by Craig George, Shutterstock 

'A little creepy': Drones invading residential spaces

Emily Anderson

Jodie Ogilvie and Marea Ruddy put their hands up to organise a No More: National Rally Against Violence event in Orange. Picture by Carla Freedman

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Demonstrations will take place across Australia from April 26-28.

Regions shaken by domestic violence to join national anti-violence rallies

George Town's Jobi Ellis, Helen Green, wife of the late Rod, Beth Crane, wife of the late Gary, and Hillwood's Alistair Taylor. Pictures by Paul Scambler 

They were two of the most revered players of their time.

Saints, Sharks unite to honour NTFA football greats in memorial game

Josh Partridge

North Launceston's Jack Avent. Picture by Craig George

The league's two undefeated titans set to do battle.

How do North Launceston plan to be the last undefeated side in the TSL?

Hugh Bohane

Anglicare Tasmania, corner of Wellington and Elizabeth streets, Launceston.
Picture: Paul Scambler

Anglicare's Snapshot reveals low income earners' rental struggle

Anglicare: 'Low-income Launceston renters can't afford private rentals'

Saree Salter

Duncan Bailey

How Northern Tasmania commemorated Anzac Day 2024. Picture by Joe Colbrook

How Northern Tasmanian communities paid their respects.

Communities come together across Tasmania to remember the Anzacs

Carla Mascarenhas

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was delivering a sermon at a Wakeley church when he was allegedly attacked on April 15. Picture by Christ The Good Shepherd Church.

The Sydney bishop stabbed in church would like the video to be available.

'Not opposed': Bishop backs Musk over stabbing video removal notice

Hundreds of Longford residents paid their respects at the cenotaph at the dawn service and 11am memorial. Picture by Joe Colbrook

Overwhelming support for service personnel in Northern Midlands.

'Etched in the annals of history': Longford pays respect to the Anzacs

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: Tents at a short-term housing facility for arriving migrants and refugees in Spandau district on September 7, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin authorities erected the new tent camp, now with a capacity for 1,600 people, last week in a hasty effort to deal with new migrants, at least 300 of whom arrived by bus early this morning and more are expected today and in coming days. Approximately 20,000 migrants, mostly traveling via Hungary, arrived in Germany by train in the last 48 hours and a further 10,000 are expected today. Authorities are distributing them to registration centers and shelters nationwide. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: (Editors note: image was created with a fish-eye lens) Migrants are seen in an improvised dining hall at a refugee accomodation facility inside an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: A discarded shoe lies on the ground as refugees prepare to board busses at a refugee accomodation facility in an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: Refugees are seen in an improvised dormitory at a refugee accomodation facility in an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: Migrants are seen in an improvised dormitory at a refugee accomodation facility in an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: Migrants wait to board busses to other German cities outside a refugee accomodation facility in an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 07: Dima, 5, from Syria enjoys a meal at a refugee accomodation facility in an exhibition hall on September 7, 2015 in Munich, Germany. German authorities are expecting 10,000 migrants to arrive on trains today, mostly from Hungary via Austria, on top of the approximately 20,000 that have arrived in the last 48 hours. Germany is distributing the migrants across the country and is struggling to register and house them. Many of the migrants are coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and are reaching western Europe via the Balkans. (Photo by Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 07: Syrian refugee Sara Albree, aged three, waits with her family for a train to Vienna at Keleti station on September 7, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. As the migrant crisis in Europe continues an estimated 18000 people arrived in Germany over the weekend with thousands more following in their wake along the Balkan route. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

SZEGED, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 06: Migrants and refugees cross the border from Serbia into Hungary along the railway tracks close to the village of Roszke on September 6, 2015 in Szeged, Hungary.After days of confrontation and choas Hungary unexpectedly opened its borders with Austria allowing thousands of migrants to leave the country and travel onto Germany. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

SZEGED, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 06: Migrants and refugees celebrate as they cross the border from Serbia into Hungary along the railway tracks close to the village of Roszke on September 6, 2015 in Szeged, Hungary.After days of confrontation and choas Hungary unexpectedly opened its borders with Austria allowing thousands of migrants to leave the country and travel onto Germany. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

SZEGED, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 06: Hundreds of miigrants and refugees continue to cross the border from Serbia into Hungary along the railway tracks close to the village of Roszke on September 6, 2015 in Szeged, Hungary.After days of confrontation and choas Hungary unexpectedly opened its borders with Austria allowing thousands of migrants to leave the country and travel onto Germany. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

BICSKE, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 04: Migrants protest outside a train that they are refusing to leave for fear of being taken to a refugee camp from the train that has been held at Bicske station since yesterday on September 4, 2015 in Bicske, near Budapest, Hungary. According to the Hungarian authorities a record number of migrants from many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia are crossing the border from Serbia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called Balkans route has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The massive increase, said to be the largest migration of people since World War II, led Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to order Hungary's army to build a steel and barbed wire security barrier along its entire border with Serbia, after more than 100,000 asylum seekers from a variety of countries and war zones entered the country so far this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 03: Migrants enter the doors of Keleti station after it was reopened this morning in central Budapest on September 3, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. Although the station has reopened all international trains to Western Europe have bee cancelled. According to the Hungarian authorities a record number of migrants from many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia are crossing the border from Serbia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called Balkans route has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The massive increase, said to be the largest migration of people since World War II, led Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to order Hungary's army to build a steel and barbed wire security barrier along its entire border with Serbia, after more than 100,000 asylum seekers from a variety of countries and war zones entered the country so far this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 03: Migrants board a train in Keleti station after it was reopened this morning in central Budapest on September 3, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. Although the station has reopened all international trains to Western Europe have bee cancelled. According to the Hungarian authorities a record number of migrants from many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia are crossing the border from Serbia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called Balkans route has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The massive increase, said to be the largest migration of people since World War II, led Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to order Hungary's army to build a steel and barbed wire security barrier along its entire border with Serbia, after more than 100,000 asylum seekers from a variety of countries and war zones entered the country so far this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 02: Migrants sleep outside Keleti station which remains closed to them in central Budapest on September 2, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. The station was closed yesterday in what was said to be an attempt by the Hungarian government to uphold EU law and restore order after recent choatic scenes at the station as migrants attempted to board trains to other parts of Europe. According to the Hungarian authorities a record number of migrants from many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia are crossing the border from Serbia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called Balkans route has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The massive increase, said to be the largest migration of people since World War II, led Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to order Hungary's army to build a steel and barbed wire security barrier along its entire border with Serbia, after more than 100,000 asylum seekers from a variety of countries and war zones entered the country so far this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 27: A migrant mother and children from Syria seeking asylum in Germany lie huddled in blankets outside the Central Registration Office for Asylum Seekers (Zentrale Aufnahmestelle fuer Asylbewerber, or ZAA) of the State Office for Health and Social Services (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales, or LAGeSo) on August 27, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin office is one of many across Germany where migrants receive initial registration papers before they are sent to shelters while their asylum applications are processed. Germany is expecting to receive 800,000 migrants and refugees this year and is struggling to cope with the record number. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - SEPTEMBER 01: Migrants gather in the transit zone below Keleti station in central Budapest on September 1, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. The station was closed today and was said to be an attempt by the Hungarian government to uphold EU law and restore order after recent choatic scenes at the station. According to the Hungarian authorities a record number of migrants from many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia crossed the border from Serbia earlier this week, said to be due in part to the erection of a new fence that is due to be completed at the end of this month. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called Balkans route has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary. The massive increase, said to be the largest migration of people since World War II, led Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to order Hungary's army to build a steel and barbed wire security barrier along its entire border with Serbia, after more than 100,000 asylum seekers from a variety of countries and war zones entered the country so far this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

European asylum seekers | photos

This humanitarian crisis has not happened overnight but check out some recent images.

European asylum seekers | photos

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