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The Tasmanian Premier stood up in parliament and refused to rule out a switch from stamp duty to a land tax on the family home, but a hasty statement shortly afterwards saying there were no such plans has economists scratching their heads.

One of the people instrumental in the examination of the notorious Don Dale youth prison in Darwin says Tasmania's government should "learn from the example" of how the Northern Territory went against the recommendations of a damning royal commission into its facility for young offenders.

Conservationists have raised issues about the history of a Canadian company putting in a $1.1 billion bid to take over Tasmanian salmon farmer Tassal.

Venita Brown is unable to leave hospital after recovering from a stroke because the place she and her partner James Paul have been living — an industrial shed in southern Tasmania — has been deemed unsuitable.