Despite a fine environment and a high overall standard of living, Tasmanians experience a significant burden of preventable diet-related chronic disease and food borne illnesses. Tasmania has rates of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and some cancers as high as, and in some instances higher than other Australian States. These preventable illnesses are costly in...

In this report Prue Cameron and Jo Flanagan investigate the lives of Tasmanians with serious mental illness who are living on a low income from the perspective of people with a mental illness and their families. The research examines the interconnections between poverty and serious mental illness and the compounding effects of this experience. The...

This paper makes a number of recommendations for [Tasmania's] State Parliament to introduce new 'patron care' strategies that would increase consumer protection in gaming venues. Anglicare's recommendations can be found on pages 8 and 9 of the report. Research shows that regular players of poker machines are at risk of developing problems, which affect not...

As the Minister responsible for the newly created portfolio of planning, I believe that Tasmania needs a robust system of land use planning which not only deals properly with natural environments but also the developed and urban environment.

ATSIC elections since 1990 have used the Commonwealth Electoral Roll as a large under-specified list of potential voters. Dissatisfaction with this arrangement within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community led to a trial roll of Indigenous electors being drawn up for the 2002 ATSIC elections in that State. Will Sanders discusses a number of contexts in which...