by Bob Brown
In the 1880s, the prima donna assoluta (absolute first lady) of song in Britain and the US was Amy Sherwin. Her good looks were the subject of frequent comment, and she galvanised admirers with her most likeable personality. She was the most famous Tasmanian in the world. The question of...
Performing arts
A song sets sail
by Chris Champion
Take a young and aspiring musician, give
him some Tasmanian-themed inspiration …
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Calvary Hospital, Hobart Watchful, efficient the nurses take time to talk listen and reassure....
by Liz McQuilkin
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Calvary Hospital, Hobart Watchful, efficient the nurses take time to talk listen and reassure....
by Liz McQuilkin
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Environment
photo by Sonia Strong There’s a light, a certain kind of light … If you’re a Bee Gees fan and in the same reflective, middle-aged mood as myself, the next line will probably bring a twinge of melancholy. If you’re also Tasmanian, the “certain kind of light” will be a...
by Sonia Strong
writer and photographer JAMES PARKER Tasman Peninsula, early 2023 Some people have fairies at the...
by James Parker
photo PETER GRANT If you go up down to the woods today … On...
by Peter Grant
Some projects are simply beautiful from start to finish, from their quiet intention to the...
by Katherine Johnson
by Peter Grant
Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...
by Rob Shaw
European romanticism – a defining movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries –...
by Peter Grant
For some of the artists steeped in wild Tasmania’s landscapes and iconic endemic flora, this landscape was confronting. “Sadly, for me all the big views contained signs of man, roads and dams so I turned my back on painting them,” Peter Gouldthorpe said. Instead, he discovered closer subjects, such as...
by Andrew Darby
Seven of us walked across the heath, through the sort of morning glow that makes...
by Bert Spinks
Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...
by Rob Shaw
Influencer selfies seem invariably to be taken on cloudless days, but the Tasmanian wilderness is not known for its friendly weather or ease of access. I’m yet to see an influencer photograph themselves huddled in a rain poncho in sideways hail, complete with snot icicles, waiting for someone more sensible...
by Sonia Strong
Sometimes during the Tasmanian winter, when the southerly wind blows and I am standing outside,...
by Steve Roden
The Victoria Tavern’s doors are now permanently closed to the public. In honour of the...
by Don Defenderfer
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