On the final Parliamentary sitting day for 2016, the backpacker tax looks set to pass after the Greens agreed to support the Coalition's 15% backpacker tax rate... however, significant concessions have been made by the Government. 

Keith Rice, CEO Primary Employers Tasmania, spoke to Louise Saunders on ABC Drive.

Backpacker tax looks set to pass at 15% after Govt and Greens deal

A passenger on Virgin flight VA702 into Hobart experienced what was described as "failed flaps" when the plane from Brisbane landed in Hobart.

Nick O'Brien spoke to Louise Saunders on ABC Hobart Drive  about the experience 

Virgin was contacted for comment

Passenger praises calm pilot after "failed flaps" on landing

The breeding season continues for the orange bellied parrot and there are eggs in their nests which ornithologists say are a great start to the season.

Mark Holdsworth, President of Friends of the Orange Bellied Parrot spoke to Louise Saunders on Drive

Good start to the orange bellied parrot breeding season

Sequin Friday (aka Melanie Tait and Tali Aualiitia) make their live radio debut on ABC Drive with a cover of George Michael's "Faith"

Mixed by Dave Chalmers

Sequin Friday Debut Single

Somerset firefighter Craig Machen is paddling around Tasmania and raising money for Motor Neurone Disease in honour of a good friend of his. Not bad for someone who will have a hip replacement at the end of the year!

Craig is on day 7 of his trip and just arrived in Bicheno and spoke to Helen Shield on ABC Tasmania Drive

Keep up to date with Craig's travels here: https://www.facebook.com/CMP4MND/photos/a.1180024038714329.1073741827.1179994092050657/1276695849047147/?type=3&theater

Firefighter paddling around Tasmania to raise money for MND

There has been a lot of talk about the real estate boom in Tasmania. The Executive Director of the Housing Industry Association of Tasmania Rick Sassin says, "Tasmania is experiencing an unprecedented wave of house price increases which is raising our profile as a great state to invest and live in".
Investors are benefiting, and people wanting to move here are benefiting, but does that mean Tasmanian residents wanting a home to live in are being disadvantaged? Or can they win too?

Helen Shield spoke to Rick Sassin on ABC Drive

What does Tasmania's house price increase really mean?

Death can be a sensitive subject and it can sometimes feel hard to talk about it, especially when it comes to our wishes of what we want to happen to our body when we die. 

For some its a question of being buried or cremated but, there is another option - donating your body to science.

ABC's Tahlea Aualiitia explores what actually happens when someone donates their body to science... or in Tasmania's case the Body Bequest Program at the University of Tasmania.

What actually happens when you donate your body to science?

Peter Hobbins and the hisssstory of snake bite treatments

Rob Woolley, former Chairman of Bellamy's, announced his resignation today ahead of the extraordinary general meeting. 

Mr Woolley has been with Bellamy's since 2007.

Mr Woolley spoke to Louise Saunders on ABC Hobart Drive about his decision saying he had been considering his future with the company amidst mounting external pressures

Former Bellamy's chairman Rob Woolley explains resignation

Consultant ornithologist Mark Holdsworth talks to Louise Saunders on ABC Radio Hobart Drive about this year's OBP breeding season in Tasmania's south west.

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