The Integrity Commission Amendment (Mandatory Notifications) Bill 2025 has passed Tasmania's House of Assembly, marking a significant step in strengthening accountability across the public sector. Principal officers of public authorities will be legally required to notify the Integrity Commission of any matter they reasonably suspect involves misconduct.

A record summer season on Bass Strait has set the stage for an even bigger year ahead, with the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels expected to begin sailing later this year. More than 320,000 passengers travelled aboard Spirit of Tasmania services over summer, highlighting strong demand for travel between Tasmania and the mainland.

When One Nation leader Pauline Hanson addresses the National Press Club on June 17, there will be landmines everywhere. It's her first formal speech to the club in her 30-year (on and off) parliamentary career. How times have changed.

NASA on Friday temporarily ordered astronauts to take shelter during repairs to fix a fresh leak aboard the International Space Station.  The five astronauts moved into the SpaceX capsule that is docked at the station while cosmonauts worked to fix the leak, which is on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory. The decision was made “out of an abundance of caution,” NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said via X.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The father of Denmark’s Australian-born Queen Mary, John Donaldson, has died in Tasmania, the royal house in Copenhagen said Sunday. He was 84. Donaldson died in Hobart, a royal statement said, without giving further details. It said that his health had been declining over the past few years, and that the queen last visited him at the end of March.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out: Its big brown eyes were moving. A browsing passenger first spotted a living Australian brushtail possum peering out from among the kangaroos on the display shelf at the departure terminal shop at Hobart Airport.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Australia’s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack that authorities say was inspired by the Islamic State group.

Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has expanded access to a highly advanced model deemed too dangerous for public release, including Australia in the select handful of users. The large language model, known as Claude Mythos, is now being rolled out to an additional 150 organisations across 15 countries, including the Australian government and several local businesses, as part of Project Glasswing.