The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Vulnerable veterans 'being left at risk'

Tasmania's isolation is a major challenge for organisations offering support to former defence personnel in the island state, a royal commission has been told.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

Eastside Lutheran College's former finance officer pleads to stealing over $144k from Tasmanian school

The former employee of a private school in Tasmania's south has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $150,000 from the college during the course of her employment.

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

Tasmanian rural council's $8.2m plan for agricultural town's main street met with tractor protest

It will add to the town's charm, they said. It will increase safety and "make a positive contribution to the overall street", they said. Well, if this Tasmanian local council thought their $8.2 million plan for Longford's main drag was going to be welcomed, a gaggle of grumpy farmers in…

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

Explorers uncover Australia's deepest known cave in southern Tasmania, breaking previous record by 4 metres

After more than six months of preparation and 14 hours underground, a group of cavers abseil, crawl, squeeze and climb more than 400 metres underground in southern Tasmania, uncovering Australia's deepest known cave.

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

Tasmanian government and UNESCO seemingly at odds over national park development: Greens

"Confused" is how Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O'Connor says she feels about the way the Tasmanian government is continuing to support development in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

Tasmanian cavers head underground in a bid to find Australia's new deepest cave

Imagine dangling from a rope "higher than tallest part of Sydney Harbour Bridge" — in the dark. Add to that squeezing through rocky gaps, deep underground. That's what a group of explorers are planning to do in order to prove Australia has a new deepest cave in southern Tasmania.

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022

Sailing down the Stuart Highway, Guts Touring revives the Blackfella/Whitefella spirit

In the year Midnight Oil plays its farewell tour, another group of musicians is taking inspiration from the Oils' iconic 1986 'Blackfella/Whitefella' tour with the Warumpi Band, touring from the Top End all the way down to Tasmania.

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022

National Labor launches Tas intervention

The national executive of the Labor Party has taken over the Tasmanian branch following years of dysfunction and poor results at the ballot box.

AAP · Jul 29, 2022

ALP national executive launches 'intervention' into Tasmanian Labor to repair branch

Years of damaging infighting and bitter spats culminate in Labor's Tasmanian branch being effectively taken over by the party's national executive, in order for it to "improve the culture" and reinstate "trust".

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022

Sexual assault reports in Tasmania skyrocket, ABS data shows

Tasmania sees a more than 50 per cent jump in the number of people reporting sexual assault compared to the year before, the largest percentage increase in the country.

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022