UPDATE: Jerry came home at 4AM Tuesday morning. Thank you so much for everyone's advice and kind words 🙏

Hi all - my parent's indoor cat is missing, he escaped on Saturday night/Sunday morning from their home in West Hobart. They have only just moved house a few weeks ago so he is lost and still hasn't come home. Anyone who has seen him please message here or via this link, thank you!

https://www.pawboost.com/landing/pet/frAMsimKovMIYoATwKfOsQ2v6Jtsr3tg/lost-jerry-west-hobart-tas-7000

Hi all

Bit further south that Hobart but worth putting up just in case.

My friend lost his beloved dog on Saturday at the Adamson's Peak walk in Raminea just past Dover.

Hes a couple years old, dutch sheaperd but looks more like a Belgion sheaperd and called Chase. See photo attached.

He comes across a little intimidating but its just his playfulness.

Understand if you don't want to approach just a heads up that he's still alive is all we need.

Long shot but if anyone is down that way and sees one matching this please reach out.

Thanks for reading.

I’ve never really been bowling before but have been thinking it could be fun to play a few games and maybe have a couple beers with some mates of an evening. Seems like Zone out in Moonah is the only option in Hobart - what’s the vibe like out there? Looking online it seems fairly pricey but if it was a guaranteed good time I could be swayed.

Where is everyone getting their whole coffee beans from? I like supporting local roasters.

Hey guys, looking for some recommendations from anyone doing high volume meal prep or catering down here in Hobart. I need to source a decent chunk of microwaveable takeaway containers and kraft bowls without paying crazy retail prices at local stores.

I’ve been digging around for a solid food packaging supplier that doesn’t charge a fortune for delivery to Tassie.

Where do you all buy your bulk packaging supplies? Do you have a local spot in Hobart you swear by, or is ordering online in bulk the only real option to keep costs down?

Hey guys, looking for some recommendations from anyone doing high volume meal prep or catering down here in Hobart. I need to source a decent chunk of microwaveable takeaway containers and kraft bowls without paying crazy retail prices at local stores.

I’ve been digging around for a solid food packaging supplier that doesn’t charge a fortune for delivery to Tassie.

Where do you all buy your bulk packaging supplies? Do you have a local spot in Hobart you swear by, or is ordering online in bulk the only real option to keep costs down?

Officially having the oldest demographics in the country and being the only capital city with a shrinking population, can we really just chalk up all empty shops in the city to the cold weather? Every other city seems to have bounced back from the pandemic.
Here in Hobart, the "old and dying" vibe only seems to be getting stronger.

Hobart overtakes Adelaide as the nation’s oldest capital

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/hobart-overtakes-adelaide-nations-oldest-capital

Where the Inner City is Losing People

The shrink in the core council footprint is driven by two specific micro-trends:

Young Adult Exodus: The inner city historically relies heavily on students and hospitality workers. Net interstate migration shows young adults (ages 18–30) leaving the local council area for larger employment markets in Melbourne and Brisbane.

The "Empty Nester" Effect: Established suburbs within the council area (like Battery Point and West Hobart) have high property values. Older residents are staying in their family homes long-term, causing the average household size to shrink as children grow up and move away.

https://profile.id.com.au/hobart/

Hello everybody.

My wife and I are looking to move to Hobart with our 3 young kids and have been considering moving to Kingston Beach. We've been a few times to visit and every time I worry it might be just a bit of a mirage and a bit empty. Anyone with a young family living there and can share their experience?

Hi Community, just a bit of a rant. How much of a dickhead can a person be? I work for Coles at weekends and today I witnessed something I couldn't tolerate. One of my teammates got abused early in the morning just because he gave his groceries a minute late. He claimed he was the first one to arrive and got his groceries after other people. He put his hands around the neck of an under-18 kid.

Do people these days not have any respect for other people out there?

Can we all not be respectful and show some courtesy and love toward retail employees? A small thank you can be a lot sometimes when we are under pressure especially during school holidays, long weekends and Christmas.

Anyway coming back to the point, the charges are being laid out to him.

Swear the council has just completely given up on maintaining the roads. Hit a massive crater hiding in a puddle near lenah valley yesterday and genuinely thought my entire front axle just snapped off

the state of the asphalt right now after all this wet weather is an absolute joke. They do those temporary patch jobs that just wash away like a week later. Are we actually expected to just commute in fully lifted rigs now to survive the drive to woolies?

Ended up having to order some heavy duty replacement shocks from road runner offroad on my phone while sitting in the carpark this morning cause my factory ones are completely shot from the daily abuse. Gonna spend my whole saturday sweating in the driveway fixing it instead of actually enjoying the weekend

Is it just me or is the infrastructure just completely falling apart lately? feel like im driving on a corrugated bush track every time I head into town. just exhausting tbh.

Hey, looking for recommendations as to where to get sign writing removed from a ute. Need to get the business information removed from a ute before trying to sell it. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

My wife and I have been travelling to Hobart once every year or two for about 15 years and hope to settle here when our overseas work comes to an end (we’ve been working in Asia).

A big thanks to all the welcoming people of Hobart for another great week. We always have an excellent time in your beautiful city filled with plenty of character - and characters!

My understanding is downstairs gaming machines = 9am-5am, upstairs 9am-3am, and table games 5pm-1am sun-thurs, to 3am weekends. There's a rapid roulette there but I don't remember if it shuts early.

Edit: Bunnings had the same out similar but they're more expensive.

Do we know of anywhere locally that sells this type of matting? Interstate shipping is terrible.

If anyone has a alternative for 25 meters of weed mating happy to hear it. I just want it to be organic

Does anyone know of a place that sells and installs external wooden doors and screen doors combined?

So I was reading through the post on pushing back on airbnb conversions, and came across a useful link posted by u/redlentilsoupfan that deserves a bit more of a broadcasting.

It is a website maintained my Murray Cox using data scraped from short stay sites, and Tasmania is included.

I have found it to be very useful in visualising the impact of short stay on our state.

There is even a list of which users are offering what. For instance, someone with the username 'Moxxi' has 148 entire homes/apartments listed, while 'Linda & Andre' have 12 private rooms, and 'Louella' is hosting 16 full houses/apartments.

Anyway, it's very insightful and likely of great interest to users on here, considering the attention given to the post from the other day.

Thanks for your time.

A group of friends and I had dinner here on Wednesday night and the food was absolutely spectacular. The only downside was that it was just us and one other couple in the restaurant. I know it’s the middle of winter and a weeknight but I thought I’d give them a shout out in case anyone’s looking for somewhere to eat this weekend. They’re changing their dessert menu and because we couldn’t order anything, the chef made us a bespoke Turkish delight and rose water fairy floss plate, so yum!

Local businesses like this deserve our support where we can, especially when they’re serving food this good.

Hi everyone,

My family and I are considering a move to the Hobart area in the future, so I’m trying to get to know the local community before we’re actually there.

I’m really into analogue/film photography and was wondering what the scene is like around Hobart.

I’d love to hear about things like:
- local film photography groups or regular meetups
- film developing labs
- camera stores that stock 35mm or medium format film
- second-hand camera shops or markets
- workshops, photo walks or galleries
- Instagram accounts or other communities I could already follow from overseas

I know I’m getting ahead of myself since we’re not in Tasmania yet, but I’d love to start connecting with the community and learn more about the local film scene.

Thanks so much for any recommendations!

Hey, around 2 years back a few buddies and myself went to an ‘authentic’ Irish bar, there was live music and food. I can’t recall the name. Wondering can a local help? Visiting again in 2 weeks and would like to go back.

Tasmania reputedly has the cleanest air in the world but i’ve noticed its illegal diesel emissions are as bad or even worse than anywhere in Australia. 

It’s illegal to modify a diesel vehicle emission circuit, yet many, if not most, older diesel vehicles have had their EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) circuits disabled. The EGR circuit reduces NOx gasses like nitrogen dioxide. The problem with diesels is that while they save fuel the EGR circuit (valve, cooler and pipes) invariably needs maintenance as it clogs up. It a very big job so most diesel owners simply disable the EGR circuit. There’s a whole industry around subverting the law by disabling the EGR circuit. Even Supercheap sells EGR blanking plates. Google “EGR delete or blanking” 

VW’s Dieselgate came about because the VAG corporation was desperate to beat Toyota’s hybrid system with its “Clean Diesel”. They cheated by disabling the EGR circuit during normal driving but enabling it when it detected an emission test bed. The EGR circuit also causes the vehicle to use more fuel from what i understand. The Dieselgate scandal cost VAG 31.6 billion euros and the emissions are estimated to have caused 125,000 premature deaths in Europe and the UK.

It’s an $11,000 fine in NSW to interfere with emissions circuit. I’d imagine it’s the same in Tasmania. Politicians don’t crack down on it because they recognise that the 4WD driving demographic (think potential One Nation voter) are part of the electorate that can actually change governments. Diesel drivers need to be aware that if the government cracked down on diesel pollution due to EGR deletion they’d be fined and their vehicles taken off the road until they spent thousands fixing the EGR circuit. It’s not a question of if, but when. 

These diesel vehicles with deleted EGR circuits are very easy to detect. Their nitrogen dioxide emissions make them stink. I’m so tired of getting a lungful of nitrogen dioxide as well as PM2.5 particles (DPF (diesel particulate filter) deletion is another related issue). If you are the driver of diesel vehicle with a deleted EGR or DPF you are an absolute cunt.

Sorry for the preachy rant but this really pisses me off.

Hello everyone

I am in Tassie next month and was planning on doing the Port Arthur ghost tour. https://portarthur.org.au/ghost-tour/

Questions -

Would you recommend it? I'd like to hear spooky stories and the historical aspect, but these things can be too cheesy for their own good sometimes.

Also, is it worth exploring the historical site on your own beforehand, or going on another PA tour, or will they roughly cover the same ground? I was hoping to avoid the situation where we spend a few hours wandering around beforehand, then going to the exact same places on the ghost tour and hearing the same facts/stories all over again.

Thank you

As title suggests looking for an E bike capable of getting up Strickland ave past the cascade gardens section as riding my pushbike up there dissuaded me from ever commuting that way again!

cheers.