iHeart Tassie - Waving On the Surfing Senator

In this week's episode of iHeart Tassie, Ebony Abblitt interviews Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson on his retirement from politics - including highlights from both in and out of the chamber, and plans for the future.

iHeart Tassie: The Importance of Cat Management in Protecting Our State from Bird Flu

Dodges Ferry in the state's south is the site of a new cat management program by Ten Lives Cat Centre, Landcare Tasmania and the Sorell Council. The location was chosen after 83 per cent of submissions to a recent community consultation survey were from Dodges Ferry residents, which highlights si…

iHeart Tassie: Returning Land to Traditional Owners

On Monday night, the City of Hobart voted to begin the process towards the transfer of nearly 5 hectares of land at Hobart's Queens Domain to the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. This week on iHeart Tassie, Judy Augustine speaks with advocate and former ALCT chair Michael Mansell about the his…

iHeart Tassie: The Student Psychologists Changing Young Lives

In Tasmania, kids with ADHD or autism face long waits for assessment, late diagnoses, or sometimes slip through the cracks entirely. In regional Tasmania, the situation is even more acute. Recently, a team at the University of Tasmania has been working to change that, through radical collaboration.…

iHeart Tassie: The Fight Against School Violence

In just two years workers compensation claims for teachers in Tasmania jumped, they rose from 198 in 2023 to 249 in 2025. Included in that figure is a huge increase in psychological injury claims and an increase too in physical injuries. On this week's episode of iHeart Tassie, we speak to a Tasm…

iHeart Tassie: Women Running the Trails

In this week's episode of iHeart Tassie, Ebony Abblitt takes a look at the trail running community across the state, which is seeing a huge boom in popularity. Speaking with members of the Her Trails Run Club, she explores why women are being drawn to the sport and the sense of community it can fos…

iHeart Tassie: John X on Waitress, TV Ads, and Why So Many Talented Tasmanians Have to Leave the Island

This week on iHeart Tassie, Britt Aylen sits down with Tasmanian entertainer John X - who is currently treading the boards as Cal in Waitress up in Melbourne.

iHeart Tassie: Finding the Missing

A group of volunteers has made headlines in recent months, after spending countless hours searching for missing persons lost in Tasmania's wilderness - finding the remains of missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer near Waratah, and more recently, a body believed to belong to Peter Willoughby at Unde…

iHeart Tassie: Women in Council

Judy Augustine speaks with Paula Wriedt and Michelle Dracoulis about online abuse and other issues faced by women in local government here in Tasmania.

iHeart Tassie: The Fashion Label Sewing Up Devils Fans

Think Tasmania and you're probably thinking produce, tourism, maybe modern art. But fashion? Think Melbourne or Sydney. For Emma Petterwood, that assumption is Romy the Brand's secret weapon. At just three years old, Petterwood's Hobart fashion label is thriving — showing at Australian Fashion Week…