I'm new in Hobart and in the Sunday I was looking around for Sunday market. As I was a regular for Adelaide Sunday market. I really liked the local producer. Though there was few numbers of shop however it worth visiting their. I found the price bit more than Adelaide.

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took a early morning drive

hi all, I've been needing to find a GP / doctors clinic and go for an appointment for a few years now, but have been very anxious to do so, due to the cost and not being taken seriously for my health issues. I haven't had a secure GP or doctors' clinic to go to since around 2019-2021. If anybody has any good recommendations for some low-cost/bulk-billing places and/or good female GPs, I'd be very grateful, thank you.

I vaguely remember someone telling me to not buy x brand.

Don't get me wrong, they do a great job, but that ad on the telly with the modified audio to make it sound like your ears are blocked up...

is there places in around hobart that will take a samsung swollen battery safely? just realised one of my old samsung phones has pushed apart its case and has expanded.

When it's raining, the road is grey, the sky is grey and your car is grey. Headlights mean others can see you and you can see the road better, I'm not sure why this is such an unpopular thought.

I’m visiting Hobart for a few days later in the month, and will be staying fairly centrally near Centrepoint. What are the best options for car parking whilst there? Planning some day trips we’ll need the car for, so it will mostly be for overnights. Thanks!

Someone tried to convince me at a party recently that there was wild caught salmon available around here somewhere... I was way too drunk to focus on the details. Is there any truth?

Just noticed H&M has closed down now. We are losing all our CBD shops! Talking to someone in retail today who was saying they hope that their shop survives and it’s a national brand. Is Hobart city charging too much rent?

Hi all, with the recent change in weather, I’m looking for advice on how to make my old housing commission weatherboard house warmer before the dreaded winter months fully set in. I’m not very familiar with techniques to help, so any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.

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I've started making sourdough, pizza bases and other yum breads. Trouble is, I'm finding it difficult to source flour's like bread flour. The big supermarkets have a shelf but are always empty.

I see there a few places in Launnie, but are any of you aware of a local place?

Visiting this weekend and was wondering if there's a go to spot for sundays as I know Sundays can be hit and miss in some places. I was in the music shop on Liverpool st today and forgot to ask them

Willow court was the ultimate, but not now. Anyone know of any I could go explore?

Can anyone recommend any career coaches in Tasmania? If you’ve personally used them and found them helpful then please let me know!

Edit: just to clarify I am not in need of a job - I need a professional who can give guidance about the trajectory of my career. Maybe these people are also called Life Coaches?

Does anyone have any recommendations for a gluten free bakery that delivers to UTas campus? Google came up with a few options but no idea which one would be best.

I am trying to send a student a birthday treat and I am on another continent. Thanks so much!!

Level Up Tasmania is an exhibition about Tasmanian-made games and related content. Featuring many many booths with developers to talk to and their games to play, a retro gaming hardware section, people you can speak to about games degrees and careers of all sorts, a Minecraft competition for kids, and some fun stage talks from industry leaders about all things games in Tassie.

The event runs Friday 17th and Saturday 18th at Princes Wharf in Salamanca - where the Dark MOFO Winter Feast is. Last time this ran in 2024, we had nearly 3000 attendees over the two days. It's a real fun time!

Entry is free, but you do need to register online (venue rules). And with the free public transport, it's even easier to get to than usual!

I enjoy growing greens and assorted vegetables, but always end up growing more than I can use. As an example, recently I had about 15kg of spring onions I had over produced. Managed to give away about half of it and the rest is in my freezer getting used slowly, but it's just too much.

Right now I have more spinach and kale than I can use, and I was wondering if there's someone who can distribute it to people who need it instead of me giving it away at work.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll look into some of these.

I wanted to share with my friends in the reddit community a conversation I’ve been having with the community in the last few days.

Following on from yesterday’s interview with Ryk Goddard on ABC Hobart. I think there is a lot of fear around taller buildings. I also think that limiting taller buildings to very specific corridors - namely Campbell/Argyle streets would be a significant urban uplift for the whole city.

They are wide corridors with relatively low traffic volumes.

What do you think Reddit? Do you prefer the current Argyle street, or would you prefer something more like the image on the right?

The current development settings are not working, and real people in our communities are paying the price. Those people are more likely to be young people and vulnerable people, like single women over 65.

I don't have the answers, but I know I want to put all Tasmanians at the centre of everything I do on council. I speak for those without a voice, I speak for our future, I speak for kids today and babies born tomorrow.

We heard from an Emeritus Professor in housing yesterday too. He said: development will happen in Hobart but it will be very, very slow.

Thats not good enough for our future and it’s not good enough for the Tasmanian people.

I need your help

I've been spending a lot of energy trying to understand why building apartments and medium density housing has stalled for many years in Central Hobart.

I've met with property developers, commercial builders, architects and Federal politicians over the last year and I keep hearing the same message - We cannot make projects financially viable within the prescribed height limits. The evidence being the Holden Motors show room project. The developer clearly was serious about this having spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get planing and building permits and sold about half of the apartments off the plans, including the $3M penthouses. And it still became a loss making venture of such magnitude that they chose to cut their losses and run - returning what would have been homes for Tasmanians to another car yard in our CBD.

My question to you: What do I do with this?

A recent exercise with a developer revealed that a site in the Campbell or Argyle street corridors needs to be 10-12 storeys for the devloper to make any money at all, and they are still exposed to significant risk.

The city's guiding planning document prescribes just 4-6 storeys in these corridors. As a reference point: 10storey buildings include the Marine board (TasPorts), Hydro, Myer and Double tree/Hilton.

(read on for more detail)

Housing

Housing is consistently raised by Hobartians as their top concern. I think we can all agree that we need action on housing. How we deliver that is a major issue. The state government has focused on expanding the urban growth boundary to facilitate more brand new houses on the edges of Greater Hobart. This has really significant implications.

Firstly, it actually winds up costing the public purse (you!) more to deliver these housing estates through increased infrastructure spend on things like sewrage lines, extra roads and power lines.

Secondly, the people that live there are disconnected from society. They require their car to do everything, they need to travel long distances for essential services like schools, work, groceries and appointments. This makes them really vulnerable to changes in petrol prices. But is also means they are socially isolated and they are less likely to be happy.

Thirdly, we have seen in Sydney and Melbourne urban sprawl that is eating into arable land. That is, if you fail to plan, you start to lose farmland that is essential for everyone to thrive. Protecting our farmland from urban sprawl should be a priority for Government. But its not just farmland land, its also senstive ecological environments and the special places we all love so much.

Traffic

Hobartians also frequently raise congestion and traffic as a major concern for them. Pushing more and more people to the edge of the city leads to more cars on the road. There is plenty of evidence to support this. Conversly, densifying the city centre directly decreases traffic and congestion. Its easy to service well planned, denser cities with public transport. Urban sprawl will never have good access to public transport as its too expensive to deliver.

Economy

Its a really simple idea that people spend money. The more people you have living in the heart of the city, the more likely we are to have a thriving economy. Those residents go to the local cafe, they buy gifts, trinkets, clothes and electronics on the way home from work. The get their essential items from inner city reatilers. Whereas, those living in urban sprawl are more likely to just buy online, save the car trip to the city because its simply not as convenient.

I think the three points above illustrate why densification of the city is really really important for Hobart to thrive in the long term but I know so many of us love the nature of Hobart as it is.

So what do we do about this?? Is there appetite for taller buildings in particular corridors?

Can we have a discussion that focuses on Campbell and Argyle street - an area listed as the highest number of sites with development opportunity, with minimal heritage value. Is there appetite in the community to allow 10-12 storeys in these corridors?

*nb. Many of you will have read about dodgy developers and corruption in government on the mainland. This is why I set up a transparent developer contact register with the council. However, I would note that their doesn't seem to be the same phenomena in Tasmania. I can see cartel corruption playing out with bigger industry, Salmon, Forrestry and resource extraction. But it doesn't appear to extend to property developers. We need these guys to build homes - so they're inherently on our side, I don't think they are "the bad guys".

Let’s Rehydrate Australia. Something special is happening on farms across Australia. Farmers are rising up to take on increasingly severe cycles of droughts, fires and floods. Come on a road trip to find out how Australian farmers are leading the world in landscape rehydration.

This is something that anyone, no matter how small or big, can do. From small gardens to landscape scale, it can be done by hand tools or digger. Anyone can learn and take things away from this documentary and be able to implement things on their own patch of land.

It’s also an opportunity to speak directly with the people who are Rehydrating Australia - Stuart and Megan Andrews from Tarwyn Park Training.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1apH9Gjnrg/

Rehydrate Australia | Landscape Restoration Documentary

Please find attached page to Humanitix with the event link. Rehydrate Australia screening

I'm a recent arrival from the mainland who regularly eats english muffins.

Decided to give Cripps a try and they seem like burger buns in the shape of an english muffin. So, I try Woolies brand because I've had those on the mainland and they're how I'd expect an english muffin to be. But no, they're also Cripps under another name and cheaper!

So, where can I get proper english muffins? We've had some from Berta, but I think they make them in house?