Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Indigenous Tasmanians sign deal to run commercial abalone fishery

A ground-breaking deal signed to provide Aboriginal Tasmanians with access to a commercial abalone fishery is being hailed as a step towards resetting relationships and cultural practices.

ABC News

Vics declare behind as runs flow in Shield

Aggressive batting from both sides has given hope that a result can be produced in the Sheffield Shield encounter between Victoria and Tasmania.

AAP

Hundreds of dead eels wash up in Tasmania's north, despite million-dollar bypass

As the smell of rotten fish spreads along the Tamar river bank, locals are wondering whether a million-dollar bypass for local eels is a "waste of public money".

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hobart tops country in opioids in latest wastewater drug monitoring report

A new drug report finds Hobart is Australia's capital city with the highest consumption of the highly addictive and commonly abused opioids, oxycodone and fentanyl. Though the numbers appear worrying, experts have an explanation.

ABC News

Tasmania's Shield tail hits out at Vics

Tasmania have built a strong first innings total in the crucial Sheffield Shield match against Victoria after their lower-order came to the rescue.

AAP

Dark Mofo reveals headline acts for 2022

Tasmania's controversial Dark Mofo festival has announced a "reincarnation" for 2022, with Kim Gordon among its headline acts.

AAP

Glover Art Prize organisers defend artist against claims she broke entry rule

The Glover Art Prize is hit by claims the Hanger's Choice winner broke the rules. Some critics say it doesn't feature a Tasmanian landscape. But organisers have defended the artist.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Supercars champions Ambrose and Tander to drive Gen3 car ahead of Tasmania test

Supercars will host a full blown test of its Gen3 machinery at Symmons Plains after champions Marcos Ambrose and Garth Tander demonstrate the cars at the Tasmania SuperSprint.

Autosport

Gen3 Supercars to test at Symmons Plains

The Gen3 Supercars will take part in a proper test at Symmons Plains in the week following the Tasmania SuperSprint.

Motorsport

McDermott lifts Tigers against Victoria

Tasmania are well placed in their vital Sheffield Shield match against Victoria despite final-over heartbreak for top-scorer Ben McDermott.

AAP

Cruise ship return cannot come fast enough for Tasmanian retailers after COVID crisis

Before COVID, cruise ship tourism contributed $100 million a year to the Tasmanian economy and supported around 400 jobs — but the return of ships might still be a way off.

ABC News

Tiffany Skeggs breaks her silence about years of abuse at the hands of notorious paedophile James Griffin

In May 2019, Tiffany Skeggs went to police to report childhood sexual abuse. She never imagined that step would be the beginnings of Tasmania's version of a royal commission.

ABC News

Ambrose, Tander to sample Gen3 Supercars

Supercars legends Marcos Ambrose and Garth Tander will cut demonstration laps in the Gen3 prototypes in Tasmania later this month.

Motorsport

Tasmania reports 923 new virus cases

Tasmania has recorded 923 new COVID-19 infections, as active cases rise to 6674.

AAP

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Pressure mounts on federal government to cut fuel excise – as it happened

This blog is now closed

ABC News

Tasmania's child vaccination rate stalls, in the face of Omicron sub-variant BA.2

Tasmania has one of the world's highest vaccination rates, but many young children are still unvaccinated. So, why has progress stalled? And what could the ramifications be for the rest of the population?

AAP

JackJumpers stay in hunt for NBL finals

The Tasmania JackJumpers have moved to within one win of fifth-placed Illawarra after holding on for an 81-77 NBL home win over the Hawks

ABC News

Childhood abuse advocates praise Peter Gutwein's disclosure, call for derisive MPs to own shameful behaviour

The Tasmanian leader's disclosure that he was a victim of child sexual assault could have a "huge impact" on other victim-survivors, a support group says, amid calls for Liberals who groaned in parliament to apologise.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Nation records 16 Covid deaths; 25% of assessed Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley properties uninhabitable after floods – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

‘Really worth a crack’: bringing Tasmania’s giant kelp forests back from the brink

Reseeding a half-hectare of seabed with microscopic giant kelp is a modest start to an ambitious aim: rebuilding an entire ecosystem

AAP

Tas group plans hay run for NSW farmers

A group of volunteers in Tasmania is planning a 2000km hay run for farmers in northern NSW hit by devastating floods.

ABC News

Victorian rider dies on Tasmania's Maydena mountain-bike trail

A 29-year-old Victorian man, described as an experienced rider, dies after a crash at a popular Tasmanian mountain-biking trail, despite efforts by onlookers to save him.

AAP

JackJumpers ease past Taipans in NBL

The Tasmania JackJumpers have cruised to a 85-69 win over the Taipans in Cairns to put more pressure on the NBL's top four.

ABC News

The Loop: Police officer found not guilty of murder, Tasmanian Premier speaks about sexual assault, a Great Moscow misunderstanding

Finish your week in The Loop.

ABC News

Glover Art Prize 2022 winner is Tasmanian Jennifer Riddle with a tribute to her sister, Wanderings of the Past and Now

Twenty-two years ago, Jennifer Riddle's dying sister encouraged her to pick up a paintbrush, and she has just won Australia's most prestigious landscape art award.

1 … 112 113 114 115

People

James Geoffrey Griffin

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Commission of Inquiry

38 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.