ABC TassieCast

After its public image took a dive last summer when millions of fish died ... the salmon industry sought regulatory approval to use an antibiotic in a bid to prevent more mass deaths.

But the spread of that antibiotic well outside the target zone has raised further concerns, about what we might be eating and impacts on other industries. 

Featuring ABC Hobart mornings presenter Leon Compton.

Imagine what you could do with 200 million dollars. 

That's how much money Tasmanians lost on pokies last financial year,

The government reckons its latest plan is about freedom of choice at the same time as supporting people with gambling addiction. 

Not everyone is so sure. 

Featuring reporter Adam Holmes.

They might look like Bambi but they're making a big mess.

There are tens of thousands of fallow deer trampling across the landscape and they now outnumber some of our most iconic species.

Featuring reporter Meg Whitfield.

Let's face it, Tassie's school report card isn't one to take home proudly.

Now with a new school year underway the Education Minister reckons she's found the solution.

But will another generation of kids be the guinea pigs? 

Featuring state political reporter Lucy MacDonald.

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Two decades after the Beaconsfield mine collapse forever linked the Foo Fighters with Tasmania, the band touches down for a one-off Launceston show hailed as Tassie’s biggest concert ever.

Calais is a young woman from Burnie with Aboriginal, Māori, and French heritage. With the support of her father, Calais is exploring and strengthening her connection to the cultures that shape her identity

Elena’s obsessive-compulsive disorder began after the death of her beloved pet duck. But it wasn’t until she saw the condition portrayed on screen that she understood what was happening.

Fancy weeing in a bottle or number twos in a bag? Australia's Antarctic bases have almost all the creature comforts, but don't be fooled, living in a hostile environment in close confines isn't for the faint hearted.

The reformed Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act runs hundreds of pages long - so what will actually change and will protests become a thing of the past?

Will Tasmanian farmed salmon be on your table this Christmas?