This Action Plan from Anglicare and TasCOSS contains solutions — four specific actions that the Government can take that will make a big difference to how much impact electricity prices have on all Tasmanians and especially on low income earners.

Potential legislative or procedural changes needed to be made to address the criminal liability of drivers who fall asleep and cause motor vehicle crashes are examined in this report. It follows from an Issues Paper released by the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) in September 2007. The Institute received 13 responses to the Issues Paper...

In this paper, Anglicare starts a discussion about urban renewal and what it might mean, especially for Tasmania. The paper explores some of the assumptions that urban renewal rests upon and looks at the extensive body of research that has been built up on these issues over the last twenty years or more.

Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim is pushing for a written agreement in return for party support. In Inside Story, Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin look at the precedents FROM THE mid-1980s, with the growing number and influence of independent and small-party MPs in Australian parliaments, an important new ingredient emerged in state and territory politics...

This RIRDC study of farm diversification in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania draws out the complex of factors that influence decision making about change. This region has been affected by the downturn in the wool industry and severe drought (now broken) over the four years preceding the study. These factors along with the recent availability...