Editorial: Sydney or the Bush?

The Editor’s Desk
|Readers’ letters from around the world.

The Irreverent Evers: Evers’s No-Clone Zone by Nick Evers

Art: Augustus Pugin, Visionary Victorian Designer by Brian Andrews
Promoting enhanced spirituality through the decorative arts.

Opinion: Janie Dickinson’s Tasmania by Janie Dickinson
The dreams of Australia’s youngest-ever woman mayor.

Portfolio: The Dombrovskis Award
Celebrating four of our most gifted young photographers.

Wine: Hood Pinots Flying High by Mark Smith
Andrew Hood’s wines ‘QANTified’ as the best.

Food and Lifestyle: Taste of Success by Oliver Robb
The Gourmet Club: for the best of everything.

National Trust: Narryna – Caring for Our Heritage by Peter Mercer
The first public museum of its type in Australia.

Gardens: Rosedown by Rosemary Ann Ogilvie
A serious horticultural indulgence.

Botanica: The Colours of Spring by Jim Duggan
Signalling the end of winter.

Books and Writers
Recent publications

Parting Shot
Hawker Demon?

The Real Tasmanian Devil by Tim Dub
A conservationist and his ferocious friends.

Fine China by Mark Smith
A replica of Tasmania’s Government House in China and its part in a rapidly expanding wine industry.

Kayaks in the South-West Wilderness by Matt Newton
The unfolding of a sea adventure in Bathurst Harbour.

New Norfolk by Rosemary Ann Ogilvie
From Norfolk Island to the Derwent Valley.

Matriarchs of the North-West by Pete Hay
Tasmania’s pioneering women.

Landlocked Sailors by Sally Rackham
First sailors on Lake Pedder.

Clean, Green Energy – From the Winds of the Roaring Forties by Alison McCann, Lyn Wilson and Jennifer O’Farrell
Woolnorth wind farm – energy on the edge.

Tasmania’s Wattles: From Blackwood to Wirilda by Nick Fitzgerald
Our golden acacias.

Walking the Bay of Fires by Margarette Pos
Bushwalking and ‘camping’ as it should be.

A Badge of Quality
Best of beef.

Circumnavigation Is in the Air by David Hurburgh
Lighthouses by light aircraft.