ABC TassieCast

To celebrate NAIDOC week's 50th year, we're taking you to a wool growing property on Tasmania's Bruny Island, which is now owned and operated by an Aboriginal corporation. It's the home of Truganinni who we were once incorrectly taught was the last Tasmanian Aboriginal.

Women's access to quality healthcare in Tasmania is back on the table after a state parliamentary committee recently handed down its final report into maternal healthcare in Tasmania prompted by harrowing stories of birth trauma.

Tasmania is experiencing a whooping cough epidemic, it's one of the highly contagious diseases that can be prevented through vaccination.  The state is not immune from a national drop in vaccination rates for a whole raft of preventable diseases. So why are more of us baulking at the jab? 

For decades what was dubbed the "Forest Wars" saw conservationists,  police and the Tasmanian timber industry lock horns on a regular basis.  But after a period of what many considered a relative peace ...  we might be hearing more about the sector again thanks to changes to national environmental laws. 

Transparency and trust in government ... they're cornerstones of any successful democracy.

Northern Tasmania has been rocked with the news that after 145 years - James Boag beer will no longer be produced in Launceston. Boags – which has traditionally been spruiked as being from the pure waters of Tasmania, will now be produced entirely from the mainland. 

The premier talks about housing as a fundamental human right, the treasurer used his budget speech to talk about delivering a caring community. 

Are you one of Tassie's eight thousand strong Hawks members? If so, you might be feeling a bit gutted right now with the news the AFL has intervened and given the club the boot from the state ... with next season to be the last we see the brown and gold run onto York Park as the home side.  It's been a pretty messy divorce after 25 years  ... can the Devils unite the island and to riff on the Hawk...

The state government has already chopped a number of creative courses from education provider TasTAFE ... leading to fears in the arts industry of a state-wide creative brain drain. Let's face it, the discretionary spend on entertainment is getting eaten into by essentials like food and housing ... but are we also poorer if we don't consume those things that feed our soul?

Do you know what your teenager was up to over the school holidays? While they might not have been created in the classroom,  a Hobart school has been criticised for its response to a deepfake incident by some boys who were students at the school where 21 female students were targeted.  How should our schools, the legal system and parents tackle this deeply disturbing part of the online world?

Tasmania has a long tradition of young people growing up, spreading their wings, and leaving for the mainland - before for some, returning to the island. But as more jobs demand tertiary qualifications, and as increasing numbers of students bypass the state’s only university for mainland options : is UTas keeping pace, and can it attract and retain the students and staff it needs? Featuring invest...

In what's believed to be the biggest study of its kind, a staggering 70 percent of almost 300 of our federal, state and local politicians who took part say the job has adversely affected their mental health.  Pollies are people too after all and the study authors reckon we all need to take heed otherwise democracy will suffer.

Many of us are already feeling the pinch ... We've got massive fuel prices, TT Line has added a surcharge, farmers are worried about future production capacity add to that the Easter Bunny is more expensive than ever.   Easter is usually  a mega earner for our tourism industry but what will the ongoing uncertainty do to the pillar of the state's economy?

The manosphere - the online world considered responsible for the rise in anti-social behaviour and  fuelling misogyny is reaching Tassie classrooms.  So how and why are men, particular young men getting caught up in this manosphere web?

Kunanyi/Mt Wellington is Tasmania's most visited natural asset but is a cable car the answer to getting more people on the mountain? 

In 2025 there were more than 200 injuries to greyhounds recorded on the track. Many countries have phased the industry out amid animal cruelty concerns ... could Tassie be the first Australian state to do it? Legislation to ban it has passed the lower house and will soon be voted on in the upper house. Featuring 7.30 reporter Adam Langenberg.

When you imagine someone using a needle exchange program, who do you picture? Chances are, it’s not always who you’d expect.

After its public image took a dive last summer when millions of fish died ... the salmon industry sought regulatory approval to use an antibiotic in a bid to prevent more mass deaths. But the spread of that antibiotic well outside the target zone has raised further concerns, about what we might be eating and impacts on other industries.  Featuring ABC Hobart mornings presenter Leon Compton.

Imagine what you could do with 200 million dollars.  That's how much money Tasmanians lost on pokies last financial year, The government reckons its latest plan is about freedom of choice at the same time as supporting people with gambling addiction.  Not everyone is so sure.  Featuring reporter Adam Holmes.

They might look like Bambi but they're making a big mess. There are tens of thousands of fallow deer trampling across the landscape and they now outnumber some of our most iconic species. Featuring reporter Meg Whitfield.

Let's face it, Tassie's school report card isn't one to take home proudly. Now with a new school year underway the Education Minister reckons she's found the solution. But will another generation of kids be the guinea pigs?  Featuring state political reporter Lucy MacDonald. Get in touch, email us: tassiecast@abc.net.au

Two decades after the Beaconsfield mine collapse forever linked the Foo Fighters with Tasmania, the band touches down for a one-off Launceston show hailed as Tassie’s biggest concert ever.

Calais is a young woman from Burnie with Aboriginal, Māori, and French heritage. With the support of her father, Calais is exploring and strengthening her connection to the cultures that shape her identity

Elena’s obsessive-compulsive disorder began after the death of her beloved pet duck. But it wasn’t until she saw the condition portrayed on screen that she understood what was happening.

Fancy weeing in a bottle or number twos in a bag? Australia's Antarctic bases have almost all the creature comforts, but don't be fooled, living in a hostile environment in close confines isn't for the faint hearted.