National affairs
28 July 2025
National trends and local factors have combined to make forming government an immensely complicated process
National affairs
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
National affairs
25 March 2025
Taswegians tend to go their own way at national elections, and that can matter when the results are close
Essays & reportage
1 August 2024
Behind William Crowther and other controversial colonial-era figures was the collector par excellence
Books & arts
25 June 2024
A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus
Books & arts
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
From the archive
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
National affairs
27 January 2023
Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition?
Books & arts
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
From the archive
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
National affairs
7 May 2021
Is last weekend’s win for Tasmania’s Liberals good news for Scott Morrison?
Essays & reportage
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
Books & arts
5 June 2020
Books | A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
National affairs
16 May 2018
Australian political dynasties aren’t as rare as you might think
National affairs
26 February 2018
The Liberals are ahead in the polls, but the state’s electoral system could create a chance for the opposition
Books & arts
21 December 2015
Books | Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes Greg Lehman
Essays & reportage
6 September 2013
Can conservation, tourism and industry coexist in Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness? Kimberley Croxford looks at the current controversy and the contending pressures
Books & arts
28 June 2012
Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
Essays & reportage
24 May 2012
Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes Natasha Cica. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a…
Essays & reportage
28 April 2011
Tasmania’s feel-good mood has given way to a bittersweet fight over versions of the future, writes Natasha Cica
Books & arts
28 January 2011
Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art opened on Friday night. A day later, Lara Giddings became premier. Natasha Cica reports
National affairs
10 September 2010
Every Australian state and territory has experienced a minority government over the past twenty years. And it’s a surprisingly strong field
National affairs
6 September 2010
It’s so far, so good, for Tasmania’s Greens-backed minority government, writes Kate Crowley
Essays & reportage
5 August 2010
This Tasmanian seat might hold a surprise for Labor and the Coalition, wrote Natasha Cica during the campaign
Essays & reportage
22 March 2010
In Tasmania, Greens leader Nick McKim is pushing for Labor or the Liberals to strike a written agreement with his party in return for its support. Brian Costar and…