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Get your glam on: win tickets to see Elton John live in concert
We have two tickets to give away to the Elton Rocket Man John concert at York Park in Launceston, Saturday 8 December. Head to the Statewide Mornings page for all the details.

The ABC Giving Tree 20 years strong
The ABC Giving Tree has been officially launched by Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting. Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon made a surprise announcement, pledging that the Tasmanian Government will match, dollar for dollar, the total money raised by the Giving Tree. Get all the details of the Giving Tree for 2007 and watch the gifts grow on the Giving Tree Webcam.

ABC Giving Tree

Join in with the 2007 ABC Local Radio Giving Tree Appeal

Cricket

Join ABC Grandstand for a summer of cricket

Nights with Annie Warburton

Here's a great new forum for Annie to add last-minute details about guests and programs

Podcasts

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Features

• Connecting people through radio [28/11/2007]
• Lights, cameras and Ricky Ponting launch the ABC Giving Tree for 2007 [14/11/2007]
• The popularity of model trains still on track! [08/11/2007]
• Building connections across the globe; Hobart's International Wall of Friendship turns 15 [07/11/2007]
• Tasmanian magpies aren't just black and white [06/11/2007]
• Little devils help out a Tassie icon [05/11/2007]
• Ponting leads Tasmania to masterpiece victory over SA [02/11/2007]
• Traffic lights turn green in Hobart [02/11/2007]

more local features...

News headlines

• Call for Tasmania to host Ashes test
• Wielangta logging ban to be lifted
• More dentists, more patients
• Forest protester fined
• Fire permits period begins
• Ponting backs Hobart for extra Ashes Test
• Claims of Elwick bio-breach 'storm in a teacup': Premier
• Tasmania pushing Rudd on hospital funding

more state news...

• Quadriplegic wins $9m BlueScope compo
• All 56 on Turkish plane killed in crash
• SA murder probe: second arrest, body found in Vic
• Qld Nationals call for Truss, Joyce to lead

more national news...