In 1930, the Tasmanian Society for the Blind and the Deaf began publishing a newsletter for the Tasmanian Deaf community. The first issue had no title, just a question mark in place of the title, but by the second issue they had decided on the title The Tasmanian Silent Gazette. The first six issues can be read below (though Vol. 2 No. 2 seems to be missing). They are an interesting example of the style and content of Deaf community newsletters of the time – we can compare them with Our Monthly Letter in Victoria and The Silent Messenger in NSW, for example.

These small community newsletters are a valuable source of information about the lives and activities of Deaf communities, genealogical information about births, deaths and marriages, details of visitors and movements around the country, and the kind of gentle moral teachings that Deaf Societies of the time tended to use.

After these six issues of The Tasmanian Silent Gazette, the newsletter changed its name and appeared under the title Talking Point.