The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

An inquiry into child sexual abuse at Tasmania's youth detention centre has been told information about allegations wasn't pieced together until recently.

A late-winter cold front has brought icy temperatures to south-east NSW. With plenty of snowfall has come plenty of photographs of the winter wonderland.

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.