The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

When does daylight saving end? Here's what time the clocks go back this weekend

Many Australians will be anticipating a Sunday sleep-in this weekend, with clocks to be wound back by one hour. But why do we still have daylight saving time?

ABC News · Mar 31, 2022

'Behemoth' Tasmanian irrigated property Vaucluse Estate expected to sell for more than $100 million

Vaucluse Estate is a massive mixed enterprise property with an equally huge history, and it is tipped to sell for more than $100 million.

ABC News · Mar 31, 2022

Director: I don't see guns in Australia

Justin Kurzel's controversial film starring Caleb Landry Jones looks at how one man traumatized Tasmania

Salon · Mar 30, 2022

Calstock, Woodbridge Georgian-era mansions with convict pasts on the market in Tasmania

Are you sick of the mainland and fancy a change to the country life? Well, two of Australia's oldest mansions, both with a convict past, are up for sale — but the prices being asked are anything but a steal.

ABC News · Mar 29, 2022

Tas posts record COVID-19 daily high

Tasmania has recorded 2324 new COVID-19 infections, the island state's highest daily figure since it reopened to mainland hotspots on December 15.

AAP · Mar 29, 2022

Ambulance Tasmania staff report depression, drug use, despondency in wellbeing survey

The vast majority of Tasmania's ambulance staff have trouble sleeping, large numbers are suffering from mental health conditions and many feel threatened by their bosses, documents obtained by the ABC reveal.

ABC News · Mar 28, 2022

Van Gisbergen: No mind games to passing

Shane van Gisbergen says his panel-rubbing passing moves in Tasmania were simply hard racing, rather than the product of any mental advantage.

Motorsport · Mar 28, 2022

$6m cocaine find in Tas shipping container

Police have seized 15 kilograms of cocaine worth about $6 million from a shipping container in Tasmania that arrived from Sydney.

AAP · Mar 28, 2022

Tasmania's Health Department apologises for incorrect COVID notifications — then issues corrections

Tasmania's Health Department issued an apology for sending out incorrect COVID notifications to people — and then corrected that apology three times.

ABC News · Mar 28, 2022

Cocaine haul worth $6 million seized by police in Bell Bay in northern Tasmania

Police seize $6 million worth of cocaine in northern Tasmania in one of the state's biggest-ever drug busts and the second this month.

ABC News · Mar 28, 2022