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Tasmania ranks last in CommBank's State of the States economic report, a significant decline from four years ago when it repeatedly topped the ranking.

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Like many regions in the developed world experiencing population ageing, the Tasmanian Government’s mitigation strategy has been to focus on population growth, and the assumed economic benefits...

At first glance, Vermont and Tasmania seem unlikely candidates for comparison. Yet they are strikingly similar in ways that matter politically and economically.

What to do if you were away, or no one was home, on Census night.

Tasmania's public health system is struggling to cope with demand for ADHD testing, with many turning to private psychiatrists, a parliamentary report has found.

Broadcaster and author Sarah Macdonald is part of a growing army of silent unpaid workers, coping with the consequences of a housing crisis and a broken aged care system.

Despite having the slowest growing population in the country, Tasmania is still battling rising homelessness and an ever-tightening rental market.

The economy we measure is not always the economy people feel. That is the idea behind what I have been calling the felt economy: the economy as people actually experience it through their budgets, cho...

This weekend will be the first since the sudden closure of seven Hobart venues. A manager of another bar says he doesn't know what to expect.

There are questions around the future of Hobart's nightlife after the abrupt closure of some of the capital city's most-loved institutions due to challenging trading conditions.

Seven Hobart bars, including the Observatory Bar and the Republic, are closing "in the immediate term" as owner Pub Banc Group is placed into voluntary administration. The administrator says the aim i...

Coalition of Community Service Peaks calls on the Government to #PrioritiseallTasmanians

fast demography requires a new approach

Deirdre Croft has dedicated 45 years to caring and advocating for her intellectually disabled son, Richard. Each passing day brings more pressure to secure his future when she's gone. It's a distressi...

Two students who went to the same university 30 years apart share their radically different experiences as lectures go online and face-to-face contact takes a back seat in the post-pandemic world.

While research has found mothers do more in all four stages of cognitive labour, there was one stage where men were more active than others.

The Tasmanian Council of Social Service (TasCOSS) is the peak body for the community services industry in Tasmania

State health ministers will today enter their final meeting of the year with their federal counterpart armed with figures showing a 25 per cent increase in just three months of aged care patients stra...

High rates of outright home ownership combined with tax-free super insulate older Australians from mortgage rate fluctuations.