Editorial

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

Opinion: Tasmania’s Changing Climate by J.S. Godfrey
On the weight of evidence the drought will continue.

SciTech: Port Arthur’s Benchmark by Nick Bowden
Nineteenth-century scientific thought.

Portfolio: Andrew Barnes
Cameras in action.

West Coasters: Lawrie Powell – Miner by Keryn Garner

Food and Lifestyle: Winter Winners by Oliver Robb

Gardens: A Life amongst the Plants by Marcus Harvey
Telopea: to be seen from afar.

National Trust: The Barns of Tasmania – Part of Our Heritage by Peter Mercer

Views and Reviews

Industry: A Creative Web by Zenon Pasieczny
High tech, opportunities and Hoota & Snoz.

Parting Shot:
Australia’s first attempt at human-powered flight.

Sweet Business by Lisa Gipton and Anthony Curtis
Unique leatherwood honey.

Birth of a Beautiful Bleriot by Warren Boyles
The building of a magnificent replica aircraft.

Encounter with a Leopard Seal by Andrew Campbell

Transportation – Slavery or Redemption? By Paul Collins
For many convicts, their sentence was a new beginning.

Grummet Island, Annexe to Hell by Fiona Preston
The consequences of recalcitrance.

10 Days on the Island’s Long Table Lunch by Oliver Robb
Tetsuya Wakuda’s cuisine and Blackwood, both winners.

This Unsporting Life by Brent Crosswell
A review of rose boys.

Latrobe by Rosemary Ann Ogilvie
Platypus capital of the world.

Tasmania’s Tradition of Wooden Boats by Tim Dub
The skills of the shipwright are alive and well.

Ossi Tourists by Ramona Eichhorn
Intrepid German bikers.

East Coast, Tasmania (2) by Graeme Hetherington