Manika Champ
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ABC Journalist based in Launceston, Tasmania. Reporting for @ABCHobart & @ABCNorthernTasmania. Email: [email protected]
Launceston, Tasmania
Joined October 2011
We are continuing to monitor the #tsunami event after a volcanic eruption near #Tonga. Land threat warning still current for Lord Howe & Norfolk Is, marine threat warning still current for parts of Qld, NSW, Vic & Tas. Will be in place for several hours. https://t.co/4vdBUsHiKf
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Tonga's Hunga Tonga volcano just had one of the most violent volcano eruptions ever captured on satellite.
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Natalie Maher, daughter of Veronica Corstorphine, found guilty of mother's murder https://t.co/bOkPbSzj6L via @ABCaustralia
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Cleo Smith found alive by WA police in Carnarvon https://t.co/Ospney77c8 via @ABCaustralia
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WA Police find missing four-year-old girl Cleo Smith in a locked house in Carnarvon, and say a 36-year-old man with "no family connection" is in custody and being questioned by detectives.
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A shortage of forensic psychiatrists in Tasmania is creating delays in a court system already dealing with a significant backlog. There’s only one permanent public psychiatrist for the entire state. #politas
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Elizabeth turns up to court over and over again in the hope that the case against her son's alleged killer finally progresses. But she says she's instead "bearing witness to a sloppy system masquer...
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'The golden list, my man': Bachelor in Paradise star loses property licence over stolen database
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A prominent Hobart property agent and reality television star who stole a client database from his former employer loses his property agent licence after a magistrate rules he is not a fit and proper...
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Tw: sexual abuse #breaking a prestigious northern Tasmanian private school is being sued by one of its former boarders who alleges he was sexually abused by other students during his time in the school's boarding house. #politas @abchobart
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The man, who was a boarder at Launceston Church Grammar School in the 1960s and 70s alleges he reported the abuse, but nothing was done.
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🗝️ Keys to the city! 🔑 🇦🇺🏊 Aussie swim star Ariarne Titmus was given the keys to the City of Launceston today, becoming the first woman to receive the honour. 🥇🥇🥈🥉 📰 Read more: https://t.co/mzZXBAELbq 📸 ABC Northern Tas / @ManikaDadson
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"Sometimes it's not just as easy as 'well, let's do an audition and try to find people of different ethnicities', it's really about taking a look at why traditionally those people have not engaged with your company..."
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A Tasmanian theatre company has apologised after failing to cast people of colour in roles specifically written to be diverse, and says any offence caused was not intentional.
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Premier Peter Gutwein has announced the closure of the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Says events of last week shows the centre will continue to be stigmatised and constrained #politas
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Todd Hodgetts gives us the best interview of the Paralympic Games 🙌 #Tokyo2020 | #Paralympics | https://t.co/ZcHji9zpZU
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The ABC’s @ManikaDadson tells me this magnificent golf course will be unavailable to the public this weekend as it plays host to the #AFL bubble. @Barnbougle will be closed. Lost Farm will remain open.
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Huge for little Lonnie!! ❤️🖤
Tasmania will host two AFL elimination finals in the first week of the final series next weekend. This will be the first time finals will be played in Tassie. Both games are in Launceston. 🏈 Swans take on GWS on Saturday 🏈 Bulldogs play Essendon on Sunday
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Three Arthur-Pieman 4WD tracks on Tasmania's west coast to stay shut, government says
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An almost decade-long battle over 4WD tracks on Tasmania's West Coast has come to an end with the state Liberal government conceding that three controversial tracks it promised to reopen will stay...
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Have you been identified as a close contact of the #covid case that was in #hotelquarantine at #Launceston in #Tasmania? Looking to speak with someone about their experience with the contact tracing. @abchobart
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Tasmania has recorded a new case of COVID-19, the first in 100s of days. It was a 31yo man travelling from NSW to Launceston. He didn't have an approved pass so was sent to hotel quarantine where he was tested. He has since left the state @abchobart
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#BREAKING: New case of COVID-19 recorded in Tasmania. Traveller who recently arrived from NSW. They did NOT spend time in the community #covid19tas
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