by Samara McPhedran
The sense of smell has an unrivalled power to evoke memory, and whenever I catch the hint of woodsmoke on an icy breeze in the hour before dusk, I am instantly back in Hobart. Like many of my generation, as a young adult in the mid-1990s, I left Tasmania for...
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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In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the...
by Roger Chao
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In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the...
by Roger Chao
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Environment
by Peter Grant
On one of our final days we met Taupo, a two-year old female harbouring four...
by Grace Heathcote
by Jonno Blood
Once a year, a group of Australian secondary students packs sleeping bags and snorkels and...
by James Dryburgh
At about 3pm there was a knock on the door. The sight that greeted me...
by Craig Searle
Like childhood innocence, in all its messy, wild perfection, once the diversity and richness of...
by Sonia Strong
RETURNING RAPTORS TO THE WILD writer and photographer BRONWYN SCANLON A farmer, a television crew, Raptor Refuge founder Craig Webb and his assistant, Juliet Harlow, and I gather in Tasmanian bushland on a crisp autumn morning. We bumped along dirt roads to reach this spot in the Huon Valley,...
by Bronwyn Scanlon
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. The sky was...
by Adrian Flitney
At about 3pm there was a knock on the door. The sight that greeted me...
by Craig Searle
Sometimes during the Tasmanian winter, when the southerly wind blows and I am standing outside, shivering, I swear that I can smell the penguins in Antarctica. A flight of fancy perhaps, but given our close associations with Antarctica and the unencumbered proximity of the fifth-largest continent on Earth, perhaps my...
by Steve Roden
The Victoria Tavern’s doors are now permanently closed to the public. In honour of the...
by Don Defenderfer
Being a woman and a winemaker can be a useful point of difference, says Fran...