Social welfare groups and Tasmania's peak tourism body are puzzled by the singling out of Battery Point, one of the state's most prestigious suburbs, in a review of short-stay accommodation rules.

Social welfare groups and Tasmania's peak tourism body are puzzled by the singling out of Battery Point, one of the state's most prestigious suburbs, in a review of short-stay accommodation rules.

All eyes will be on Canada this weekend, as G7 leaders try to avert an emerging trade war with the United States and prevent the unravelling on the global trade system.

All eyes will be on Canada this weekend, as G7 leaders try to avert an emerging trade war with the United States and prevent the unravelling on the global trade system.

An instructor for a private operator about to take over public bus services in Sydney's inner west has been hit and killed during a training exercise, leaving colleagues in a "state of shock".