The Tasmania Project invited survey responses from Tasmanian residents aged 18 and over and conducted 50 in-depth interviews. Topics covered by the survey and interviews include: adjusting to COVID-19; sources of information; compliance with official responses; changes to food, housing and employment; and opinions re recovery and beyond. To access the full initial findings report, please […]

Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania. To access all of the graphs, tables and footnotes, download Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – May 2020. The May 2020 Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot provides an overview of interstate and overseas migration to and from Tasmania for the year ended 30 June 2019, based on […]

Old mobile phones and a lack of trust in government are the main reasons Tasmanian residents say they cannot or will not download the COVIDSafe app. A University of Tasmania research project seeking to understand how Tasmanians are experiencing and adjusting to life in the time of COVID-19 is finding that almost 25 per cent […]

The north west of Tasmania is currently experiencing the strictest COVID-19 lock down of any part of the nation. Between 1,000 and 1,200 hospital staff are quarantined with their households (a total of probably 5,000 people), and only essential activities allowed across the region. Several of the people infected are health workers, a group that […]

As in many things, Tasmania is experiencing COVID-19 in ways that differ from other states. We knew being an island could give us faster and tighter control of our borders, and we know our demographics make us more vulnerable – physically, socially and economically – to the virus. These differences are evident to those leading […]

Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania The COVID-19 global pandemic has revealed an inconvenient truth for Australia; we have a national economy founded on consumption. In fact, it is both our societal values and underlying political ideologies which are geared to increasing consumption to grow our economy rather than […]