Category Archives: King Island Courier

KING Islanders are again mobilising to oppose oil and gas exploration in Bass Strait.

GROUP 6 Metals Limited advised the Australian Stock Exchange that the recent Share Purchase Plan announced to ASX in November last year which offered eligible G6M shareholders the opportunity to apply for up to A$30,000 of additional shares, per eligible shareholder, without incurring brokerage or transaction costs raised $4.5 million.

TRACEY Collyer started exporting e-waste a few years ago when she was sending her car to Melbourne.

LAST Saturday, Australia’s Mixed 2 km Relay team, Stewart McSweyn, Abbey Caldwell, Oliver Hoare, Jessica Hull, raced into Australian athletics history taking the bronze medal behind Kenya and Ethiopia at the 44th World Athletics Cross Country Championships.

SHARP Airlines will review its direct Hobart to King Island services with the State Government’s subsidy set to end in April.

KING Island is suffering from the housing shortage that is rapidly reaching crisis level throughout Tasmania.

A SMALL small but mighty King Island wind turbine, which has alone produced more 10,000 MWh of clean electricity since being installed more than two decades ago, will receive a life-extending makeover this month.

LAST Friday Robyn Williams retired after 33 years working for Tasmania Police at the Currie Police Station.

KING Island will be celebrated as “one of the most spectacular places on earth” through music, art, food and wine in next month’s Moonbird Fesitival.

LAST week a boat was spotted on the previously closed Currie Harbour slip and the community speculated and celebrated.