By Professor Richard Eccleston and Professor Neil Warren Both major parties have now released their costings and the federal election campaign has degenerated into a slanging match about the credibility of their respective budget projections. Politics dictates that both parties spruik pain-free pathways to budget repair by reassuring voters that little will change in the […]

Last night the Australian Information Industry Association (AIAA) iAwards were held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart where more than 250 of Tasmania’s leading digital innovators gathered to recognise and celebrate innovation in the digital economy. Sense-T won a prestigious iAward, in the Community Services category for the AirRater smartphone app, and a commendation […]

Three Memorandums of Understanding signed today will boost research collaboration between the University of Tasmania and the tourism industry, one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. The MOUs formalise partnerships between the University and the Department of State Growth, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery […]

By Dennis Grube and Matt Killingsworth A FEW minutes. That’s all it takes. A few boxes, a few numbers, and we’re done. And not once a day, or even once a month — just once every three years. As a process, it’s right up there with scribbling down your shopping list in terms of excitement. […]

By Dain Bolwell and Professor Richard Eccleston, University of Tasmania It was no coincidence that on the first day of the 2016 election campaign, Labor leader Bill Shorten revisited his PR triumph of ten years earlier in Beaconsfield, Tasmania – in the electorate of Bass. This is the town that saw a media frenzy in […]

Professor Richard Eccleston featured on Radio National on Sunday 5 June in an interview with Rose Bolger about Braddon in Tasmania. Since its inception, the seat of Braddon has gone from being a conservative stronghold, to one that’s been shared between the two major parties from the late 1950s onward. Now a classic blue collar […]

By Professor Richard Eccleston WITH a month to go until election day the question should not be which party can throw the most money at Tasmania, but which one can craft the clearest direction for our future. The party that best “gets” Tasmania. The party prepared to show the strongest leadership. The increasing Americanisation of […]