Austins Ferry is a residential suburb of the local government area (LGA) of Glenorchy in the greater Hobart region of Tasmania.

[3] After their sentences expired, the two men were granted small land parcels on the western shore of the River Derwent between Hobart and New Norfolk.

In 1818 they established a ferry service across the river and later a punt which proved very conveniently-located for vehicular traffic travelling between Hobart and regions to the north, and they thus became very wealthy.

[citation needed] In 1821 the visiting Governor Lachlan Macquarie renamed the village Roseneath, but it later reverted to its original name.

[citation needed] Austins Ferry is the location of St Virgil's College, a private Roman Catholic co-educational school.