The Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has announced his sudden resignation from his position as premier and as a member for Bass on April 4. “I’ve got nothing left in the tank,” Gutwein said to the reporters at the press conference. “Unless you can give 110 percent to the role of premier, you shouldn’t be doing…

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has revealed he was sexually assaulted as a child by a former teacher. Gutwein last year set up the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings after abuse allegations were levelled at public servants. He was asked on Friday by media about the…

Tasmania, the island state in the south of Australia, will head to the polls on May 1, a year sooner than planned, after Speaker Sue Hickey quit the party, plunging the state Liberal government into a minority. Premier Peter Gutwein on Friday said, “Tasmania can’t afford the uncertainty of minority government. Now more than ever, we need…

Tasmania will become the third Australian state to legalise euthanasia after the law was approved by the state Parliament’s upper house on Tuesday night. It comes as state-level parliamentarians across the country continue to push for the practice to be legalised. The Tasmanian upper house’s vote comes just weeks after the lower house approved the…