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The grieving daughter of an 80-year-old woman who died while in the care of ambulance paramedics while waiting to be admitted to Royal Hobart Hospital says "nothing was done until she died … then suddenly 10 people came and were giving her CPR".

Twenty three years ago, Peg Putt dragged a rickety old camp chair out of her garage and smuggled it into the Tasmanian parliament. She did it as a protest for democracy — and this week's victory has left her "quite emotional".

Tasmania's Premier goes on the offensive at those who question his plan to spend an estimated $375 million of taxpayer money on a new Hobart stadium in order to launch a local AFL team, as a federal Liberal colleague says he has reservations over the cost.

The Tasmanian government and AFL have reached an in-principle agreement on commercial terms for the island state's 19th licence bid.

Inside Parliament House in Hobart, the debate focused on the public sector pay offer, cost of living and inflation — but outside, where thousands of striking workers gathered, there was far more at stake than the annual percentage increase.

Thousands of public sector workers, including teachers, have held strikes across Tasmania in their battle for improved pay and conditions.

Zoe Duncan did not get to hear the apology to child sexual abuse victims in Tasmania on Tuesday. Instead, her family carried her photo and heard words which, while welcomed, will "mean nothing without action".

Premier Jeremy Rockliff and others have delivered a historic apology from Tasmania's parliament to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions, almost two years to the day since the government announced an investigation into the allegations.

The last remaining Australian-owned major salmon producer is set to be bought by seafood giant Cooke Aquaculture — and some say the Canadian company's environmental record is a worrying sign for what's to come.

Despite leaving his job at the Launceston General Hospital at the end of the 90s, Lawrence Donaldson is passionate about cultural change at the institution.

Business groups are calling on the Tasmanian government to offer a financial lifeline to hundreds of small and medium businesses that could soon face a doubling of their power bills.