The Black War is the bloodiest chapter in the history of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania. The war lasted from 1824 (1826, ...

Negotiations to lease the newly built Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry have begun, as the state government announces the ship will ...

How is the scent of Tasmania likely to be received when Malano ultimately produces its aromatic homage to the island state?

Tasmania was originally discovered by the Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman in 1642. He named this island, "Anthoonij Van Diemens Landt". Later the British called it Van Damien's Land.

The history of Jews in Tasmania is long and checkered. In the 1940s, before the state of Israel was established, an explorer looking for a potential Jewish homeland scouted out the island’s ...

New-release books include the Asian-flavoured novels Those Opulent Days, the debut of Vietnamese-Australian author Jacquie ...

At four in the morning of Thursday, March 15th, 1860, the clipper ship Great Tasmania, Captain Gardyne commander, dropped anchor in the Mersey. She had left Calcutta about the middle of November 1859.

Claiming the Hobart Hurricanes' maiden Big Bash trophy hasn't fully sunk in for the players and that's most certainly the ...

“This is going to be one of the greatest victories in Australian sporting history, I know people say I exaggerate all the time, no, you just don’t like my honesty – I’m telling the truth. If Tasmania ...

Picture: Government House At a press conference earlier on Monday, Minister Felix Ellis defended the government’s decision ...

The Illawarra Hawks' crushing win over the Tasmania JackJumpers puts the foundation NBL club in a good position to create ...