Trucks, cars, buses and bikes; Tasmanian road users are diverse, but they all want the same thing … safer, more efficient ways to get about. So what is being proposed across Hobart, Launceston and the North West?

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Do you know someone who deserves to be celebrated? We want to recognise their work in the community with the ABC Hobart Community Spirit Awards.

This week is your last chance to nominate someone you know, or yourself, across one of our five categories: Community Champion, Community Project or Event, Multicultural Community Cohesion, Community in Social Media or Above & Beyond School Community Project.

Nominations close midnight Thursday 22 April – nominate here today.

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Now that the COVID vaccination timeline has been pulled back, do local GPs think they can get the job done? Ryk Goddard speaks to a Hobart GP on Breakfast to find out how Tasmania is now placed for the vaccine roll-out. 

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We are so excited to be returning to Agfest this year, and Saturdays' Joel Rheinberger wants you to join him there for a live Q&A with Gardening Australia’s Tino Carnevale.

We have five Saturday Agfest double passes to give away – for your chance to win just tune in to Saturdays and Sundays this weekend and listen out for your cue to call.

We’ll be broadcasting all the action live from Agfest across Mornings with Leon Compton 8.30 – 11am Friday 7 May and on Saturdays with Joel Rheinberger 8.30 – 11am Saturday 8 May.

Join us there or tune in on 936AM, listen live here or download the ABC listen app.

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Tasmania's major political parties have officially launched their election campaigns, with the Liberals spruiking their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and Labor promoting its plans to overhaul health and housing.

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If you’re not attending Anzac Day services and events in person, you can still pay your respects via the ABC’s coverage of Hobart's Dawn Service and Anzac Day march on ABC TV and iview, ABC Radio Hobart and ABC Hobart  Facebook page.

If you’re planning to Light Up the Dawn, make sure you download the ABC listen app so you can listen to the radio, or the ABC iview app to watch ABC TV live from your mobile phone.  

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Abebea Behraki spent 27 years in a Sudanese refugee camp. These days she's cooking up a storm at a social enterprise kitchen breaking down employment barriers for older migrants.

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A Tasmanian council will lobby the state government to rename a bridge, named after a man with a legacy of massacring Aboriginal people.

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Some nights, deciding what to make feels like a bigger battle than cooking. Maybe you don't have the energy to cook up a storm and want to get creative with a supermarket BBQ chicken instead? Whether you're in the mood for pasta, salad or a chicken and rice bowl, these recipes will have you saying "winner, winner, chicken dinner!"

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