Susan Oong

From late next year, cash and coins will no longer be inserted into gaming machines in Tasmania as new gambling reforms that focus on "harm minimisation" are introduced. So, how will this "cashless gaming" system work?

Fears the iconic "little blue boat" in Hobart's northern suburbs could be gone forever have been quelled, for now, thanks to the help of a passionate community who rushed to help save it. 

Letters written with poisoned ink, missiles thrown at politicians' homes and a heated debate about the flooding of Lake Pedder. It was in this climate in 1972 that a shot was fired one night through the window of Tasmania's parliament house.