A site in Hobart’s Northern Suburbs will become home to a new youth detention centre, Premier Jeremy Rockliff has announced. During the handing down of the Commission of Inquiry into child sexual abuse, the Premier said the new centre in Pontville, bordering the Midland Highway, will replace the notorious Ashley Youth Detention Centre with a completely […]
Tue Sep 26, 2023 - 12:14pmA Hobart man is facing almost 100 charges for offences against children over a five-year period. Tasmania Police have charged the 31-year-old with a total of 98 offences following an extensive investigation. The man was arrested on Monday by Tasmania Police’s high risk child exploitation team, with assistance from the Australian Federal Police. Charges against […]
Mon Sep 18, 2023 - 4:30pmA Tasmanian man will spend the next two and a half years in prison after he was found with more than 22,000 child abuse files. The 37-year-old Huonville man was identified by the United States National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children after uploading child abuse material to the internet in 2019. Following a joint AFP and […]
Fri Aug 18, 2023 - 8:00amTrouble continues to plague Tasmania’s Ashley Youth Detention Centre, with staff shortages leading to numerous lockdowns in the past month, an inquiry has been told. Lucas Digney, the assistant state secretary of the Health and Community Services Union, expressed concerns about the lack of skilled workers at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. “In the last […]
Fri Jul 14, 2023 - 5:00amTasmania’s Treasurer, Michael Ferguson, has presented the state’s budget for 2023/24, which reveals a postponed surplus, rising debt and potential cost increases for the Macquarie Point stadium project. The projected surplus of $19 million has been replaced by a deficit of $298 million and it is expected to reach $148 million in 2024/25 before a […]
Thu May 25, 2023 - 5:32pmA Tasmanian man has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing and accessing child abuse material. The 45-year-old man appeared in the Hobart Supreme Court in late April where he faced charges for uploading the material on social media between 2016 and 2020. According to the Australian […]
Mon May 1, 2023 - 1:17pmA 38-year-old man is being extradited from Queensland to Tasmania over a child sexual abuse charge today. Detectives from the Northern Criminal Investigation Branch’s Victims Unit have travelled to Townsville to bring the man back to Tasmania over charges relating to alleged crimes committed in Tasmania between 2018 and 2022. The accused is remanded in […]
Fri Mar 24, 2023 - 1:45pmA former Tasmanian school principal has been sentenced to four years in jail for historical sexual offences against an underage student. 65-year-old Wynyard man Alexander Vere Downes pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault and three counts of penetrative sexual abuse of a child that occurred between 1989 and 1991. The court heard that […]
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