We have the power to create positive change in our community. Through our partnerships, we're connecting with and investing in the communities we're a part of to make a meaningful difference to the lives of Tasmanians.
Our Focus Areas
Focusing our efforts where we can best make a difference enables us to create meaningful partnerships that bring us closer to a better tomorrow - our ultimate vision.
We partner with like-minded, community-based organisations to deliver initiatives that make a tangible, long-term difference to the Tasmanian community.
We’re proud to partner with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and renowned palawa artist Dewayne Everettsmith to support the creation and sharing of songs in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
This work builds on the TSO’s collaboration with Dewayne to create an album of songs in palawa kani, telling stories of creation through music and language, and is closely aligned with our Reconciliation Action Plan, reflecting our ongoing commitment to cultural respect, learning and connection.
Our support will help expand this powerful cultural project to include a new song specifically designed for Tasmanian school students. The song will be toured across the state and taught in classrooms, supporting broader cultural understanding from a young age.
By helping bring this work to more Tasmanians, we aim to support cultural pride and visibility, deepen community connection and create opportunities for meaningful engagement with Aboriginal culture. This partnership is an example of how music, language and storytelling can come together to inspire positive change and create a more inclusive future.
Key benefits from this partnership include
Increased awareness and understanding of Tasmanian Aboriginal culture and language
Opportunities for school-aged children to learn palawa kani through music
Support for cultural revitalisation and intergenerational knowledge sharing
Stronger relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Tasmanians
A platform for Aboriginal voices, stories and perspectives to be celebrated
In 2024, we partnered with WorkVentures and were successful in obtaining a grant from the Tasmanian Community Fund to enable the Tech4Kids TAS – No Child Left Behind program, a fantastic initiative delivering 1,000 free laptops to students across Tasmania.
In early 2025, we launched the program, which helps digitally excluded students gain access to the technology and skills they need to thrive.
Caroline McDaid, CEO of WorkVentures, highlighted the significance of this initiative, noting:
“A recent Telstra Foundation report estimated that 30% of students don’t have access to a laptop at home — the joint highest rate in Australia and 4% above the national average.”
We’re proud to be part of this initiative, ensuring more Tasmanian students have the tools they need to succeed.
Key Features of Tech4Kids TAS
💻 Free Laptops – WorkVentures is distributing refurbished laptops pre-loaded with essential educational software.
📚 Education Support – Families receive a 30-minute coaching call to help set up and use the laptops, plus information about the School Student Broadband Initiative, which offers free NBN home internet for eligible families until 30 June 2028.
🔧 Technical Support – Each device comes with 12 months of free tech support to assist students in staying connected.
✅ Eligibility – Open to students in Years 5-12 who lack access to a laptop at home.
Hobart City Mission provides critical services, including emergency accommodation, food relief, opportunity shops, and dedicated housing programs for young parents and families. These services offer a lifeline to individuals and families navigating difficult circumstances, often providing a fresh start in a safe and supportive environment.
We are proud to partner with Hobart City Mission to enhance safety for Tasmanians accessing emergency accommodation, food relief, and other essential services. Over the three-year partnership, we will provide funding for critical security upgrades at client-facing sites across southern Tasmania.
Safety is at the heart of this initiative, ensuring people in crisis can access secure spaces when they need them most. These upgrades will improve safety not only for clients but also for the dedicated staff and volunteers who deliver life-changing support to vulnerable Tasmanians.
By creating environments where people feel safe and supported, we are making a long-term investment in a stronger, more resilient community. Find out more about their amazing range of programs at www.hobartcitymission.org.au.
To help our customers better understand, manage and reduce their household energy usage, TasNetworks has partnered with Uniting Vic Tas to make their Energy Support Program available for free to all Tasmanians.
Under the program, you can access personalised, independent, over-the-phone energy advice directly from Uniting’s Energy Assist Team.
Free phone appointments from the comfort of your home
In your free phone appointment, The Uniting team will help you gain a deeper understanding of your energy bills, ensure you're accessing all available concessions and discounts and provide simple yet effective tips to reduce your energy consumption, all in the comfort of your home.
Appointments are available now
Reach out today to schedule your free appointment with one of Uniting’s energy experts and take the first step towards a more energy efficient future! All calls and interactions are completely confidential, and the Energy Assist team is happy to deliver appointments in your preferred language.
Contact the Uniting Energy Assist team on 1800 313 126 or visit their website here.
We’ve partnered with the Tasmania Wildlife Hospital in Forth, marking the commencement of a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the care of Tasmania's endangered raptor species.
This funding is specifically supporting the Tasmania Wildlife Hospital to advance its Raptor Recovery Program through the construction of several purpose-built aviaries. These aviaries are helping the organisation to uphold best practices in wildlife treatment and care throughout northern and north-western Tasmania.
Dr. Joh Robertson, Chairperson of Tasmania Wildlife Hospital, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, stating; “We are deeply appreciative of TasNetworks' investment in our mission. The importance of this partnership goes beyond just funding aviary facilities. It enables the Tasmania Wildlife Hospital to establish a unified program to support sick or injured raptor species within one centralised facility – from veterinary treatment and critical care to rehabilitation and research, with the ultimate aim of supporting the regions wildlife rehabilitation network and providing best practice care for Tasmania’s raptor species”.
This three-year partnership supports TasNetworks Threatened Bird Strategy, with our commitment to support statewide critical threatened bird treatment, rehabilitation, and conservation efforts.
In a significant three-year partnership with Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, we have made a strong commitment to the support of their Critical Care service, which plays a vital role in rehabilitating injured wildlife, including Tasmania's threatened bird species. With a network of over 1200 dedicated wildlife rescuers, Bonorong ensures that injured animals receive the critical care and rehabilitation they require.
In collaboration with the highly regarded Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary we’re expanding our efforts beyond prevention to provide essential critical care services for injured birds and wildlife. This collaboration involves significant funding for the diagnosis and care support at Tasmania's largest 24/7 wildlife rescue service. This ensures that injured birds and wildlife receive top-notch veterinary care.
Greg Irons, Director of Bonorong, expressed the significance of this partnership, stating, "Support such as this for our critical care teams, is essential to assist us with an ever-growing number of animals needing our help. A lot of people do not realise just how many people and resources are used in the critical care area ranging from original assessments and triage all the way through to the medical work and rehabilitation. Best practice with injured wildlife requires many factors working together efficiently, and we are very grateful for the support Tas Networks to help fund that best practice."
We’ve partnered with Rural Alive and Well to provide greater mental health and wellbeing support in Rural and Remote communities across Tassie. Under this partnership, we’re helping to expand the impact and reach of RAW’s community-based suicide prevention programs by funding a wide range of community events across rural and remote Tasmania.
Under our partnership, RAW can deliver over 30 suicide prevention events and talks in communities right across Tasmania.
We've partnered with Bookend Trust to support scientific research on the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle.
This partnership provides funding to support the Where? Where? Wedgie! project, a citizen science project monitoring long-term population changes of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle and other birds of prey. The partnership also supports Dr James Pay’s research at the University of Tasmania. Dr Pay’s research tracks wedge-tailed eagles using GPS tags, discovering invaluable information about their behaviour.
Data received from Where? Where? Wedgie! monitoring, along with Dr Pay’s GPS tag research data, will help us direct our threatened bird mitigation efforts in the right direction to reduce injuries to the wedge-tailed eagles and other birds.
The Where? Where? Wedgie! surveys run every year in May. If you're in Tasmania at that time, you can take part. Find out more about the Where? Where? Wedgie! project.
In 2022 we partnered with TMAG to help protect Tasmanian threatened bird species and support research and conservation efforts.
Under this partnership, we're funding a part-time technical officer, whose research and technical skills enable TMAG to process, examine and curate specimens of Tasmanian raptors, the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), whitebellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) and grey goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae), for the Zoology collection. The diagnostic capabilities of this new role provide timely information on where and why birds have died or been injured, enabling us to respond quicker to mitigate hazards in high-risk areas of our network to protect more birds. By adding these data-rich specimens to the TMAG collections, we also contribute to building a long-term dataset that will enable future research on trends within the biology and health of Tasmania’s birds of prey.
The partnership has also funded an ultra-cold freezer to increase TMAG’s specimen storage and a forensic light source that detects cryptic signs of burns from electrocution.
In 2020 we sponsored TMAG's ningina tunapri Live Digital Excursion.Primarily designed for schools in rural, regional and remote areas, this program provided Tasmanian school students with a live digital excursion of the ningina tunapri gallery, followed by a unique learning experience with a TMAG Aboriginal Learning Facilitator.
We’re continuing our efforts to protect Tasmania’s iconic birds of prey by joining forces with the University of Tasmania and Greening Australia in a new partnership to provide safer perching places for large birds of prey in the vicinity of our assets.
Designed and built by UTAS Architecture and Design Students, the innovative new perches will be installed alongside Greening Australia’s ‘Species Hotels’, and positioned in proximity to our power poles, which are known to be used as perches by large birds of prey, such as Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagles in Northern Midlands area.
We are proud to be a long-term sponsor of Seniors Week.
Seniors Week is all about celebrating older Tasmanians and their valuable contributions to our community. With hundreds of informative and fun events held across the state, Seniors Week provides great opportunities for older people to engage in local activities and stay connected with their communities.
TasNetworks generally run Seniors Week sessions around the state educating older people on how to be more energy efficient and reduce their power bills at home.
Through its Strategic Weed Management Program, TasNetworks is supporting the landscape recovery efforts of the Derwent Catchment Project (DCP).
The DCP is run by a board of local community members who are committed to addressing sustainability and land degradation in the Derwent Catchment area.
The DCP works collaboratively with a broad range of industries, councils, farmers and community members to restore and enhance natural values including the management and eradication of high priority weeds. These landscape-level works also help to build community resilience, agricultural productivity and reduce bushfire and flood risk.
Works actively being undertaken on TasNetworks behalf by the DCP includes:
Removal of Willows along the Tyenna River, Sorell Creek and Glen Dhu
Weed management under transmission lines at Dee Lagoon
Treatment of English Broom near Miena
Management of Ragwort at Waddamana
Treatment of invasive grasses in the Tea Tree area
Surveying (using detection dogs) and management of orange hawkweed near Butlers Gorge
Ragwort - a high priority declared weed (DCP)Fonz the Orange Hawkweed Detection Dog (DCP)
In a significant three-year partnership with Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, we have made a strong commitment to the support of their Critical Care service, which plays a vital role in rehabilitating injured wildlife, including Tasmania's threatened bird species. With a network of over 1200 dedicated wildlife rescuers, Bonorong ensures that injured animals receive the critical care and rehabilitation they require.
