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The Nationals now have their first Tasmanian senator since the Tasmanian tiger was last sighted, but that does not greatly reduce the challenges the government faces in passing legislation.
Tasmania has an estimated rental housing shortfall of 29,200 households across the state. Especially in disadvantaged rural areas, local councils have had to step in to help house residents locally.
A Tasmanian Requiem brings together Western and Aboriginal voices to confront the violence of the state’s Black War. It shows what a historical reckoning, and reconciliation, might look and sound like.
More than 160 thylacine specimens lie in museum collections in the UK. The sight of their bodies is a shocking reminder of loss.
Agreements between the Commonwealth and state governments that protect native forests are based on hopelessly out-of-date information. It’s a huge mistake to renew them without assessment.
In the early days of colonial Tasmania, the British used threatening picture boards to communicate with Aboriginal people, giving them a choice between conciliation and death.
The Franklin River campaign is commonly seen as a green victory; a fight for the right of ‘wilderness’ to exist. But archaeological research revealing the region’s deep Aboriginal history was crucial to it.
The Tasmanian Liberal party is promoting gaming industry estimates that ‘around 5,000 jobs’ would be at risk if poker machines were removed from pubs and clubs in Tasmania. Are the estimates correct?
The Jacqui Lambie Network plan is short on detail and unlikely to improve the health system or outcomes for Tasmanians over the longer term.
Listeners often describe the music presented at Tasmania’s Mofo festival as ‘weird’. But to do so sells the experience short.
That colonial wars were fought in Tasmania is irrefutable. More controversially, surviving evidence suggests the British enacted genocidal policies against the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Disadvantage predicts the extent of poker machine losses far more in Tasmania than in other Australian states and territories.
Australia’s national obsession with prescribed burning won’t be enough to manage the growing risk of devastating bushfires.
Governor Arthur Phillip regarded sodomy as one of the worst offences that convicts under his charge could commit. But sex between men and between women flourished in convict Australia.
The new Tasmanian tiger genome reveals some fascinating facts about this extinct marsupial, including why they were so similar to dogs, and how they were growing more vulnerable to genetic disease.
Wooredy and his second wife Truganini set off into the Tasmanian wilderness with settler George Robinson in 1830, on a “conciliatory” mission to find other original Tasmanians. Their stories bear witness to a psychological and cultural transition without parallel in modern colonialism.
Tasmania’s swift parrots are in trouble. Scientists are aiming to help them by keeping them safe from predators, but without better habitat protection, the species may go extinct.
Bob Brown’s successful High Court challenge to an anti-protest law in Tasmania will cause many states to review their own protest laws.
A new study highlights the stark difference in living conditions experienced by old- and new-world working-class adults in the Victorian era.
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Politics and Journalism, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations Program, School of Social Sciences,, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
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Director, Tas Law Reform Institue / Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania