The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Rockliff

The Tasmanian Premier stood up in parliament and refused to rule out a switch from stamp duty to a land tax on the family home, but a hasty statement shortly afterwards saying there were no such plans has economists scratching their heads.

One of the people instrumental in the examination of the notorious Don Dale youth prison in Darwin says Tasmania's government should "learn from the example" of how the Northern Territory went against the recommendations of a damning royal commission into its facility for young offenders.

The only pharmacy in a remote Tasmanian tourism town is struggling to stay open as it grapples with tragedy and a worker shortage.

Tasmania will have its first female police commissioner when a decorated officer with more than three decades of experience assumes the top job this year.

A last-minute proposal from the state government to improve working conditions for Tasmania's nurses fails to stop a strike from going ahead at the Launceston General Hospital.

Layla was only in year 8 when she found herself on the streets. It was an incident she does not want to detail that prompted her to seek a different path — to a place where she now helps other young people in Tasmania.

An exhausted workforce, staffing levels below safe minimums and nurses feeling like they are unable to give patients the care they need: This is the picture nurses have painted of the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Tasmania's Police Minister Jacquie Petrusma has walked away from politics, the fourth cabinet member to quit the state government this year.

Tasmanian Police Minister Jacquie Petrusma is resigning from state parliament for "personal and family reasons", the fourth Liberal to go this year — with the Premier deflecting questions of "instability".