The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Wednesday: There is a growing chorus for parliament’s powerful privileges committee to investigate Scott Morrison’s handful of secret ministries. Plus: the Texans working to bring back the woolly mammoth say we’ll soon have new Tasmanian tigers

An Australian team say a new partnership with a US-based tech company has given their hopes of a successful "de-extinction" of thylacines a "giant leap" — and that their goal of seeing a Tasmanian tiger in the wild could happen "within 10 years".

There is a palpable sense of relief for many in Tasmania's Aboriginal community over the decision to remove a 133-year-old statue of a man accused of mutilating a deceased Aboriginal man, but one historian says there are other monuments to men who did far worse — just metres away.

Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds

Surgeon and later Tasmanian premier William Crowther snuck into a morgue and stole the head of Indigenous man William Lanne. Now, Hobart's council will vote tonight on whether his prominent city-centre statue should be torn down.

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.

The fourth Tasmanian Liberal government MP to quit politics since last year's state election has been replaced by a fellow Liberal in a recount.

It is not official yet, but weather experts say Sunday's heavy rains across Tasmania look to have broken records for all-time biggest downpours in a number of locations.

Eager buyers are snapping up unused churches around Australia and giving historic buildings a new life as homes, accommodation and workspaces