Sabra Lane is a reporter and weekend 7pm presenter for ABC News Tasmania, based in Hobart.
She was previously a presenter of the ABC's flagship AM program, 7.30 chief political correspondent and president of the National Press Club of Australia.
She has been a journalist for more than 35 years.
The salmon industry is "important to Tasmania", people are constantly reminded. But should it take precedence over other industries and people's enjoyment of their natural surroundings?
Pro-whaling nations have used their numbers to block a 28-year push to set up a massive whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Hobart.
Since whaling was banned in 1986, whale numbers have rebounded but threats, mostly human-made, remain and are on the agenda at a meeting in Hobart.
A minister of the Crown's scolding of a journalist asking a legitimate question about firearm ownership, and the subsequent pile-on allowed to run on social media, should ring alarm bells for anyone concerned with democracy.
After last year's snap election, Tasmania's premier declared voters were "sick and tired of the political games". After this week, it is clear that the politicians just cannot help themselves.
It was a glamorous royal visit which dominated headlines in Tasmania this week, but some other — less glitzy — developments have the potential to rebuild the public's trust in the government.
There's unrelenting pressure on the Prime Minister to call a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack. The Federal Attorney-General Michelle Rowland speaks to AM.
A former Chief Justice of the High Court has added his name to a growing list of senior figures calling for a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack.
Dennis Richardson is a former bureaucrat and security official who headed DFAT and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Mark Dreyfus was Federal Attorney-General in the first Albanese government, he's the member for Isaacs in Melbourne and he's Jewish.
The Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hit back at the former Prime Minister John Howard who has criticised the Government's approach to tackling anti-Semitism.
Dr Anne Aly is the Federal Minister for Multicultural Affairs - she's also a counter-terrorism expert. She's told AM that there's a strong case to tighten gun laws
It's been more than one year since the Federal Government established the special envoy in response to an increase in anti-Semitism attacks in Australia.
Independent testing of new electric vehicles has found their actual driving range in real-world conditions, is far less than what's advertised.
It's been a year since the Federal government formally responded to the Royal Commission into Defence and veteran suicides.
The energy market operator fears the nation's electricity grid isn't prepared for the closure of Australia's largest coal-fired power station.
With inflation running hot, and Forecasts now the Reserve Bank might have to lift interest rates ... The Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure to cut spending ... the Shadow Treasurer Ted O'Brien speaks to AM.
The Federal Government is setting up an Artificial intelligence Safety Institute, to assess emerging capabilities, and evaluate the risks of the technology.
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
Cracks are widening in Sussan Ley's leadership of the Liberal Party. Can the Opposition Leader keep control of her party?
The Productivity Commission has called for a complete rewrite of the National Mental Health Agreement in a scathing review.
Australia's national environmental laws known as the EPBC act are more 25 years old and they're currently before the Senate.
Senior Minister sees positivity in democracy survey results. Sabra Lane spoke to Senator Don Farrell is the Federal Special Minister of State, with oversight of the Australian Electoral Commission and Parliamentary services.
The Federal Coalition is tearing itself apart over the Net Zero climate policy. The National Party's ditched the policy and is trying to drag the Liberals to that position too There's the chance that the Liberal Party's first female leader might be claimed as a result.
The Tomago aluminium plant in New South Wales makes about 37 per cent of Australia's aluminium and it's power hungry, using 10 per cent of the state's electricity. Yet it could close, because Rio Tinto, a part owner of the plant says it can't secure affordable power from 2028 when its current contract expires. And that means it's a political hot potato with critics suggesting policies to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 are to blame. The Federal Government says all options are on the table.
