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Almost half of the public servants identified in Tasmania's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry are still employed and under internal investigation, six months after the release of the inquiry's report.

Hobart's kunanyi/Mt Wellington attracts more than 400,000 visitors per year, most who drive up a winding road to reach its summit. A review of transport options and the park's management will soon kick off — and will likely include talk of a cable-car.

Fight to Live is a new film charting Bec Rawlings's path from a difficult childhood in Launceston to becoming a bare-knuckle boxing world champion. Along the way, it also tackles head-on the issue of domestic violence.

When Cathy Wills came to the small Tasmanian town of Gladstone, nothing much ever happened. That was until she revamped the local pub.

Cafe owner Rachel Power says her hope of benefiting from a 2023 budget promise aimed at helping small businesses has been dashed, as the bill remains stuck in parliament.

The much-awaited two brand new Spirit of Tasmania ferries are due in the third quarter of this year, but with its Finnish shipbuilder in financial trouble and other problems of money and logistics, it has been anything but smooth sailing.

The number of children currently in youth detention in Tasmania is the highest it's been in a decade, and low staffing levels means those at the centre are increasingly being left in isolation. 

After drawing a blank using DNA matching, police release a facial reconstruction of a man whose skeletal remains were found on a grassy hill overlooking a beach in Tasmania — with authorities saying the bones could have been there for up to 50 years.

Tasmanian police have increased patrols around schools after reports of students being approached by a man outside southern Tasmanian school grounds in recent days. They have urged the public to report any suspicious activity.

A Tasmanian teenager has scored a speaking role in what's shaping up to be this year's biggest Hollywood blockbuster, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, despite only auditioning as an extra. 

Last week it was announced six deaths at a major Tasmanian hospital would be investigated over allegations of falsifying death certificates — authorities have now widened the probe to include another 63 deaths.

A Tasmanian court has heard audio from triple-0 calls, documenting the moment an ex-butcher broke into his home and attacked his wife with a knife, before neighbours intervened after hearing the victim's screams.

Since the Great Depression, begging for money has been illegal in Tasmania but now there is a push to, as one expert says, "tackle social issues in a rational, mature and modern way".

A local media organisation has been reported to Equal Opportunity Tasmania, following concerns from the multicultural community that it did not do enough to moderate comments on a recent post.

With a cap on international students each university can have announced by the Federal government, Tasmania's university is asking staff how it can save money.

Virgin staff dancing at the boarding gate, a call from Richard Branson announcing they'd all won a free cruise, passengers wearing hats and filmed celebrating — but this winner says due to a change in itinerary, to claim her prize will cost her thousands.

The Medical Board of Australia has suspended Dr Peter Renshaw's medical practitioner registration. It comes after an investigation was launched into allegations he falsified death certificates.

The parents of Ashton Jones, who was 34 when he was stabbed to death by a neighbour, tell the Supreme Court in Hobart of their grief.

A statue of divisive colonial-era figure William Crowther has stood in central Hobart since 1889, that was until one night this week when it was toppled. Video has surfaced showing people carrying out the act.

Scientists last year raised the alarm — twice — about the fate of Tasmania's endangered Maugean skate after its population was found to have declined by 47 per cent. But while the salmon industry maintains that all's well, it has also asked for a shift in goal posts to redefine a 'healthy' harbour to a 'viable' one.

International student Devarshi Deka had high hopes when he came to Australia. But an alleged assault has left him unable to walk, and his family is appealing for support so returning to India isn't his only option. 

Hundreds of people attend a meeting to oppose the construction of the Tasmania Devils AFL high-performance centre on parklands in Hobart's eastern shore, but the mayor warns a potential poll of all voters could cost $200,000.

Feral cats outnumber two endangered bird species on King Island two to one — but conservationists are hopeful AI-powered poison traps will help keep the birds going.

A colonial-era statue honouring a former premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man is vandalised on the eve of a tribunal decision on its planned removal.

Six deaths that occurred inside a major Tasmanian hospital will now be re-examined by the state coroner — with a nurse and midwife instrumental in bringing on the investigation asking: "Why does it take until nurses speak up, for there to be truth, justice, and accountability?"