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Vehicleentry to this car park is from Argyle Street (between Collins and Liverpool streets), with pedestrian access from Wellington Court and Wellington Centre. There are eight disabled access parking spaces that are all located in close proximity to the elevators. There are 1155 parking bays, with a height restriction of 2 metres.

Access directly to the Wellington Centre and Royal Hobart Hospital via the skybridge is available on Level 3 of the Woolworths side of the car park. There are additional accessible parking spaces and pay stations located at the walkway to these services.

The City of Hobart operates a free wheelchair hire scheme for people shopping in the city centre for a few hours. For enquiries about wheelchair availability please phone 03 6238 2780. More information about accessible transport options within the City of Hobart is available on our accessible transport and parking page.

Vehicle entry to this car park is from Victoria Street, with pedestrian entry available from Victoria and Murray Streets, and Centrepoint Shopping Centre. There are 16 disabled parking spaces all in close proximity to the elevators. There are 782 parking bays, with a height restriction of 2.1 metres.

Vehicle entry to this car park is from Melville Street (between Elizabeth and Murray Streets), with pedestrian available from from Melville and Bathurst Streets. There are 10 disabled parking spaces all in close proximity to the elevators.

Short-term parking is available in the following car parks around Hobart. The payment method for these car parks is either by voucher or meter. You can find out more about these payment methods on the how to pay for parking page.

Information about the City of Hobart's parking fees and charges can be found on the fees and charges page. Note that prices are subject to change dependent on the services provided by the City of Hobart throughout the year.

City of Hobart's Pensioner Voucher Scheme makes parking cheaper for all pension card holders in our city. The scheme offers a book of parking vouchers to eligible Pension Card holders.

The Patient Assisted Travel Scheme (PATS) allows eligible patients and/or their families to park in any of the City of Hobart's multi-storey car parks for a reduced fee while using certain facilities.

Information on accessible transport options available in the City of Hobart, including parking, wheelchair hire and pensioner concession vouchers can be found on our accessible transport and parking page.

You will be required to provide your full name, email address and contact phone number in order to be placed on a wait list. You will also need to nominate for which car park/s you are seeking long-term monthly parking.

The City of Hobart acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal People as the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of lutruwita, Tasmania. We pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and to their Elders past, present and emerging.

One of my visitors, while reading the article onHow to Register a Domain Name, was puzzled bythe concept of domain name parking. This article explains what it means and describes the situations when you may want or need to parkyour domain name as well as its downsides.

To ensure that we are all talking about the same thing when I say "domain name", let me briefly mention it refers to aname like "thesitewizard.com". Loosely speaking, it's the address of your website. Normally, if someone wants toset up a site,he/she will need to pay a small annual fee to registera domain name. The latter can then be"pointed" to a website containingthe content that the person wants to display. Whenever visitors type that address into a browser, they will be broughtto the site. For example, if you were to type "thesitewizard.com" into your browser, you will be brought to the main page of this website.

Very often, when people "buy" a domain name, they are only just starting out on a new website. Since getting a domain is thefirst step of many in creating a website,most people don't have any site at the time they register the domain. As such, they can'tpoint the domain name anywhere.

Domain name registrars, the companies through which you register a domain, work around this problem by allowing you to pointthe domain to a dummy web page. When visitors type the address of a domain that has been "parked" in this way, they will see this placeholderweb page. The content placed on the dummy web page varies from registrar to registrar, and it's possiblethat some registrars place advertisements or links to themselves on your parked domain. (Note that you will not earn money fromthose advertisements. You will only earn from theadvertisements you place yourself on your website.)

There are of course other situations which might lead you to want to park your domain. For example, if you were buying many domain namesbecause you think you might want toreserve them for future use,or because you can't decide between the different permutations of names andwant to take precautionsagainst those names being "stolen", then it's likely that you will want to park those domains temporarily till you either decide what todo with them or till you actually get a website ready for those domains.

In general, most people reading this article needn't worry about this section. For the majority, getting a domain name is justa precursor to starting a website, and as such, the domain name is rarely parked for long (usually only until you sign up with aweb host and point your domain name there).When it's parked for such a short period, that temporary dummy web page on your parked domain doesn't really matter since it will notbe associated with your domain for long.

However, if you're parking yourdomain name for a long period of time, you may want to scrutinize the content of the placeholderweb page used by your registrar for your domain. After all, that web page is now associated with your domain, and your reputation.While it will be obvious to any seasoned web surfer when he/she encounters such a page that it's just a parked domain web page,less web-savvy Internet users may think that page is really part of a website you created. The recommendations and links placed onthat page may appear to be endorsements of those products by you. Remember, since the design of the page was not made by you, there'sno guarantee that advertisements look like adverts. If the registrar is unscrupulous, they may make the ads seem like genuinerecommendations from you. People who trust you, on reading your page, may fall lock, stock and barrel for the things said there.

Now, I'm not saying that any registrar does these things. My only experience with domain parking on one of my own domains dateback many years. My memory is vague about the whole thing, and all I remember is the distaste I felt about the page and the haste withwhich I quickly pointed my domain away, to my own dummy web page (which is a completely blank page). But I'm probably hypersensitiveto such things, and most people have thicker skins. (And I actually don't even remember what the page contained, or which registrar/domainit was, so for all you know, it was some harmless thing that irked me because I was in a bad mood.)

Although my main domains (that have actual websites attached to them) are placed onweb hosts I trust, I also have web hostingaccounts on other web hosts for my playsites, including one that offers virtually "unlimited" everything. For reasons given in the articleThe Myth of "Unlimited" in WebHosting, I don't really rely on such "unlimited" web hosts for anything serious. But, in my opinion, they are useful for one majorthing: unlimited domain hosting for my test sites. Manyof them allow you to place an unlimited number of domains/websites on a single account.

In view of this, whenever I get a domain name that I think I might want to develop in the future, Ibuy it andpoint it tomy account at that web host. It doesn't cost me anything to point it there since that account allows me to host asmany domains as I want at no extra charge. I simply create a blank page (actually, just an empty file with a zero file size)for those domains.

I know the people whomonetize all their domains will probably think thatit's a great waste of opportunity to point the domains to blank pages. They are probably right, of course. But I only have so muchtime, and developing new websites and maintaining existing ones take a lot of time (for me, anyway). And I want to make sure thatwhen I actually get around to developing those new sites, the domains will still be available for me to use. The only way toensure that is to buy the domains now, when they are still for sale. Otherwise when I'm finally ready to work on the sites, theymay already be sold to someone else. And since I want to avoid the various registrars' parking pages, I use theseempty pages instead.

In any case, if you're considering getting a domain, or starting a website, you may want to continue by reading the following articles. (There aremany other relevant ones on thesitewizard.com, but these should get you started, as well as point you in the right direction.)

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Entry height is 2.2 metres. There are 11 accessible parking spaces on Level 1, and 12 accessible spaces on Level 6 of the car park for RTA Mobility Parking Permit holders. Car spaces on Level 6 also have direct wheelchair access to lifts.

The Sydney Opera House honours our First Nations by fostering a shared sense of belonging for all Australians, and we acknowledge the Gadigal, traditional custodians of Tubowgule, the land on which the Opera House stands.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Conservatives who aren't happy that Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination are mining, mining for something to knock him out of that spot. So they're looking into his time as a high-profile real estate developer, and one issue they're hoping to exploit is Trump's support for eminent domain, as NPR's Joel Rose explains.JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: Eminent domain is generally not a big campaign issue. When the city forces someone to sell the property, it's usually to make way for something uncontroversial like a school or a road, but not always.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Trump supports eminent domain abuse because he can make millions, while we lose our property rates.ROSE: That's an attack ad paid for by Club for Growth. It started airing last week in the early caucus state of Iowa. The ad refers to a controversial Supreme Court decision from 2005 that allowed a city in Connecticut to force the sale of a private home so that a big pharmaceutical company to put up a new office building. Most Republicans blasted that ruling as an assault on property rights. Donald Trump? Not so much.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)DONALD TRUMP: I happen to agree with it 100 percent.ROSE: That's Trump on Fox News in 2005, and it's not the only time he's defended eminent domain. In the most famous case, Trump himself was the developer who stood to benefit. This happened back in the 1990s, but it still drives conservatives nuts. David Boaz is with the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank in Washington.DAVID BOAZ: This guy's a bully. Using the power of government to take a widow's property is pretty much the definition of a bully.ROSE: The widow in this story is Vera Coking. She had raised her family in a three-story house near the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. Trump wanted the property to build a limousine parking lot for one his casinos, but Coking didn't want to leave, as she told ABC.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)VERA COKING: I didn't want to sell because I was so close to the beach, and I loved the place.ROSE: Trump reportedly offered her a million dollars, but Coking wouldn't budge. So Trump's allies at the state's casino reinvestment authority tried to seize the property, pay her a fraction of what private developers had offered and turn it over to Trump.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)COKING: I almost had a heart attack. I almost died. How could anybody come out and say, we're going take your home away from you?ROSE: Trump wasn't shy about defending the effort to oust Coking. He told ABC her house was ugly.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)TRUMP: Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees that property. They're staring at this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good.DANA BERLINER: It was absolutely outrageous to be taking a woman's home for a casino limousine parking lot. That was crazy.ROSE: Dana Berliner is a lawyer at the Institute for Justice, the nonprofit law firm that represented Vera Coking in her legal battle with the state.BERLINER: She had bright blonde hair, and she wore very large glasses usually with rhinestones on them. She was not the kind of person to go away quietly.ROSE: Coking's side won the court case. She's still alive but not available for interviews. Her family eventually sold the house at auction. Trump's campaign did not respond to requests for comment for this story, but he defended the concept of eminent domain as a necessary evil on ABC.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)TRUMP: You want to live in a city where you can't build schools? Do you want to live in a city where you can't build roads or highways?ROSE: There were two other hold-outs on Vera Coking's block. They did eventually reach deals with Trump's casino. Neither of them wanted to talk on tape for this story, but both told me they have no hard feelings against Donald Trump and actually respect him as a businessman. Still, David Boaz at the Cato Institute thinks Trump's position on eminent domain should make conservative primary voters think twice.BOAZ: If you really do believe that Donald Trump is a guy who believes in small government and free enterprise and the Constitution then this ought to shake your understanding in that way.ROSE: Boaz says this is one of several issues that might cause conservative voters to peel away from Donald Trump in droves. But there's no sign that's happening yet. Joel Rose, NPR News, New York.

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