Tasmanian Times is a an independent platform for news, stories, fact-based and solutions-based journalism about the island of Tasmania, Australia. It is compiled with love and contributions by and for those with an interest in the wonders and life of Tasmania.
Tasmanian Times acknowledges we live, work and play on lutruwita (Tasmania). We also acknowledge the palawa people as the traditional owners and custodians of lutruwita who maintain a deep, spiritual connection to this land and who have not ceded their sovereignty or territory. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the vital importance of reconciliation, and hope to act as allies in providing a voice to Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
For guidelines about contributions, see our Contact page. Volunteer editors and content curators are also extremely welcome and training is provided.
Tasmanian Times could not have come into being and grown without the extraordinary goodwill of its readership, donations and the support of a limited number of advertisers. Thank you!
Publisher/Editor
Rod Holden (2026 – ) took the helm of Tasmania’s longest serving independent media platform in January 2026. He doesn’t have a journalist pedigree like his predecessors but he did build a software program that pulled data from the ASX to feed a subscription newsletter in the finance industry from 2000 to 2003. He’s a creative problem solver that’s had a crack at many things. Later in life the reality hit the ground and he’s been passionate about sustainability, democracy and Tasmania for the last 15 years. He has a keen interest in seeing the development of independent media expand globally has studied what works and what doesn’t around the world and has plans to see Tasmanian Times lead the way.
Alan Whykes (2019 – 2026) started writing for his school newspaper in high school and has been published on and off ever since. Ranging from 7 years as the Australian correspondent for Indonesia’s second-largest national daily to managing a television station in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, he has broad experience across many types of media. He also describes himself as a poet, bandicoot lover, gardener, vegan chef, Gaelic footballer and sustainability advocate.
Founder Lindsay Tuffin (2002 – 2019) was a journalist for more than five decades, working throughout Australia and in the UK, from roles as a parliamentary reporter to editor. He is passionate about the search for truth and justice, ideas, running and conversation … always with wine and food. There is a strange joy in bearing witness to a truth about this world. For in bearing witness to the truth about others you discover yourself. And that is my joy … and my life. He founded Tasmanian Times in 2002.
Responsibility for election comment on Tasmanian Times is taken by Alan Whykes, 9 Kelvin Avenue, Moonah 7009.
West wrote this in his History of Tasmania (1852):
“The newspapers of this hemisphere were long mere vehicles of government intelligence, or expressions of the views and feelings of the ruling powers. Malice or humour, in the early days, expressed itself in what were called Pipes—a ditty, either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men were thus hitched into rhyme. Thus, the fear of satire checked the haughtiness of power.”
Amen to that.
