The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

The inquiry investigating child sexual abuse at Tasmania's only youth prison is told by a former female detainee she was preyed upon by male inmates and staff at the facility — and that the experience had left her "without words" to express herself.

While scientists are working on the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in the lab, one bush walker in the Adelaide Hills has spotted a creature which she says shared a striking resemblance.

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.

An inquiry has been told a detainee at Tasmania's youth detention centre was bashed into a bed frame by a worker after being found self-harming.

Environmentalists condemn ‘outrageous’ testing plans in Otway Basin off coast of Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia

A former detainee of Tasmania's youth detention centre tells an inquiry he was bribed by the current centre manager to say nice things about the facility — while the centre's manager says he was greeted with a "voodoo doll with pins through the heart" on his first day.

Church’s decision in Tasmania and Victoria made in part because of Guardian’s Uber Files investigation

Every year in lutruwita/Tasmania, tens of thousands of people journey to and meander through the island state and take in festivals such as Dark Mofo, Cygnet Folk Festival or Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival.

Shredded documents, missing reports and staff too scared to speak up, or ignored — Tasmania's commission of inquiry hears more evidence of what goes on behind the gates at the island's only youth prison.

Stealing a bag of chips — that was the crime that would land Erin in Tasmania's Ashley youth prison, a place where she would be sexually abused, punished if she complained and taught that it was better just to shut up and accept it.

Former Australian Test captain Tim Paine is returning to training in Tasmania as he eyes a comeback to cricket.