The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Tasmania's AFL chair focused despite stadium debate

Ongoing debate and political upheaval around Tasmania's entry to the AFL won't distract the new club's inaugural chair Grant O'Brien.

AAP · Jul 7, 2023

Paramedic's death prompts Ambulance Tasmania overhaul

A coroner has handed down 13 recommendations for Ambulance Tasmania after a paramedic with long-standing drug and mental health issues took his own life.

AAP · Jul 5, 2023

Tasmania trashed as 'Australia's most secretive state'

Tasmania has the highest rate of freedom of information refusals in the nation and average review request wait times have tripled in five years, analysis shows.

AAP · Jul 5, 2023

Tasmania Police Share CCTV Footage Of Last Time 14 Y.O. Girl Was Seen Before She Went Missing

The teenager has been missing for two months with police finding "no sign of her".

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 30, 2023

Police shift focus to waterfall in search for tourist

Crews are rappelling from a viewing platform to search around a waterfall for Belgian tourist Celine Cremer, missing in northwest Tasmania for almost two weeks.

AAP · Jun 30, 2023

Tasmania outlaws Nazi salute, symbol in 'clear message'

The island state has locked in reforms banning the Nazi salute and symbol in a move the government says sends a clear message against hate.

AAP · Jun 29, 2023

Visa overstayer secretly buried amid prosecution fears

A coroner could not determine what health issue killed a Malaysian woman who overstayed her visa and whose body was found buried on a Tasmanian property.

AAP · Jun 29, 2023

Missing Belgian woman feared dead in Tasmanian bush

Belgian tourist Celine Cremer couldn't have survived recent weather conditions while exposed in Tasmania's wilderness, police say.

AAP · Jun 28, 2023

Tasmania Police Share Heartbreaking Update In Search For Belgian Backpacker Céline Cremer

Céline Cremer has been missing in Tasmania's bushland for two weeks.

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 28, 2023

Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged

Rob Blakers says he was ‘surprised then furious’ that trees in foraging and feeding habitat for birds, whose numbers are down to just 750, were being destroyed

The Guardian - AU · Jun 27, 2023