Yesterday
Reigning overall winner Alive retires from Sydney to Hobart
The 66-footer retired off Wollongong with engine issues around 4pm on the first day of racing, with Master Lock Comanche in a comfortable lead.
- Jasper Bruce
This Month
‘Worst forecast ever’: Sydney-Hobart set for broken boats, fast time
Reigning line honours skipper Christian Beck says “the odds of boat damage are very high” in this year’s blue water classic.
- Jasper Bruce
March
Lambie demands integrity measures, rethink on Tassie AFL stadium
The minor party founder and federal senator says transparency and integrity issues will dominate as Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff tries to form government.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Opinion
State polls position Albanese for a second term
Polling booths around the country show Labor’s support base is growing enough for another narrow federal win.
- John Black
February
How having one owner helps Mona Foma
The Tasmanian arts festival gets much of its funding from a single person in professional gambler and MONA owner David Walsh. A freewheeling program results.
- Michael Bailey
October 2023
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Star dealmaker resigns after botched mid-air bathroom prank
A Corrs rainmaker resigned after a practical joke on another partner went wrong on a flight to Hobart.
- Mark Di Stefano
June 2023
Airbnb crackdown backed by housing minister
Federal Housing Minister Julie Collins has backed tighter controls on short-term rentals, blaming Airbnb-type listings for fuelling the rental crisis.
- John Kehoe and Bonnie Campbell
May 2023
Tasmanian government spends big on housing amid stadium controversy
The Tasmanian Liberal government will spend $373 million on housing as it tries to neutralise controversy over a decision to spend $375 million on a stadium.
- Michael Read
Liberals forced into minority government in Tasmania
Two MPs announced they would quit over the state’s AFL stadium dispute, up-ending the party’s tight majority.
- Updated
- Adrian Black
No shortage of landlords in Labor or the Greens
Residential property ownership (or the lack of it) divides Australia along generational lines, a truth as evident within political parties as outside them.
- Myriam Robin
April 2023
PM pledges $240m for Hobart stadium
Tasmania looks set to have its own AFL team after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged an additional $240 million to the state government to build a new waterfront stadium in Hobart.
- Phoebe Loomes and Tess Ikonomou
Hackers leak info on 16,000 Aussie school kids
A Russian-linked hacker group was believed to have posted thousands of financial statements with the names and addresses of Tasmanian school children and their parents.
- Emily Woods
February 2023
A Tasmanian geologist’s fortune implodes in the Congo
The battle for control of the world’s richest lithium deposit has escalated into a potential $4.6 billion market wipeout, legal disputes, and ferocious feuding.
- Tom Richardson and Aaron Patrick
January 2023
- Exclusive
- AFR Magazine
Dark Mofo boss burnt by cancel culture
In the aftermath of the Indigenous blood row, Dark Mofo’s outgoing director Leigh Carmichael says the threat of public outrage is stifling discussion of controversial ideas.
- Gabriella Coslovich
December 2022
The team-building secrets this Sydney to Hobart winning CEO swears by
Sydney to Hobart champion John Winning, also the chief executive of his fourth-generation family company, says data is equally important in sport and business.
- Gus McCubbing
September 2022
Can Tassie deliver on a $10,000 weekend for two?
Heli transfers make a two-night, uber-luxury stay in the wildness of Freycinet Peninsula seem effortless. Whether it’s worth it is up to you.
- Peter Kerr
May 2022
- Politics
- Credit rating
Tasmania tackles housing crisis as budget on path to surplus
Credit ratings agencies warn that capital expenditure is driving the state’s debt higher, with Tasmania heavily dependent on Commonwealth payments.
- Gus McCubbing
Inside the life (and wardrobe) of artist and troublemaker Kirsha Kaechele
The American-born wife of MONA founder David Walsh talks Givenchy, Picasso, and why she’s learning French to be “United Nations-ready”.
- Matthew Drummond
The Tassie hotel where the artworks are for sale
Hobart’s five-star Henry Jones Art Hotel is like staying in a gallery, where the pieces – and the food – feed the soul.
- Peter Kerr
April 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Albanese stumbles in an election that’s his to lose
The Labor leader showed himself ignorant of the most important, discretionary economic setting that determines Australians’ prosperity.