On any given night, while the majority of us are tucked up nice and warm in our beds there are over 8,000 people sleeping rough in improvised dwellings, tents or outdoors.  The majority of people facing homelessness are living in cars, on the couches of friends or family, or in overcrowded, temporary or unsuitable accommodation or caravan parks. This year Robbie Nicholson is making it his...

The Circular Head RSL Subbranch has benefited from a project completed by John Findlater Junior, who has spent the better part of a year working hard to turn one of the club’s plain timber tables into an iconic piece of local history. John, who makes replicas of service medals for the families of returned veterans, was in Circular Head to pick up some medals when he enquired about the...

The Circular Head Pony Club will take on the best of the state after being crowned district champions at the Prince Phillip Mounted Games in Inglis. Team member Elyse Poke gives us all the details. On May 16 Inglis Pony Club hosted the North West Prince Phillip Mounted Games. For Circular Head Pony Club the A division consisted of David Gardiner, Jemima Gardiner, Britney Arnold, Elyse Poke and...

Smithton High School students Kelsey Williams, Hunter Woolley and Ashton Monson along with youth mentor Selina Colgrave, Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation’s Luke Grey, Lesley and Ros Dick and Cheryl Marshall joined Claire and Dean from Aboriginal Heritage Tasmania on the trip of a lifetime recently, taking a helicopter flight into remote, untouched areas of the west coast to view aboriginal...

Last week young women from Project O in Smithton and Wynyard were working with former Australian of the Year and domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty to develop skills in advocacy and agency. Project O is a primary prevention initiative which has run for six years in five states and territories, enabling young women to lead change in remote and disadvantaged communities affected by gender...