People, Tasmanian Voices

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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Poet's Corner

In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the...

by Roger Chao

Top Stories

Poet's Corner

The Gilded Throne

Wilderness

Three, two, one …

Poet's Corner

Say it

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Poet's Corner

In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the...

by Roger Chao

Top Stories

Poet's Corner

The Gilded Throne

Wilderness

Three, two, one …

Poet's Corner

Say it

History

Distinct and independent

Wilderness

The best of days: my last walk in the wild

Poet's Corner

The Gilded Throne

Wilderness

Three, two, one …

Poet's Corner

Say it

Poet's Corner

The Gilded Throne

Wilderness

Three, two, one …

Poet's Corner

Say it

Poet's Corner

The Gilded Throne

Wilderness

Three, two, one …

Poet's Corner

Say it

Environment

Environment
A little bit of Australia on the Camino Trail in Portugal...

by Peter Grant

Environment

On one of our final days we met Taupo, a two-year old female harbouring four...

by Grace Heathcote

Environment
Xanthorrhoea australis flower spike. Panatana Reserve, photograph by Heath Holden...

by Jonno Blood

Environment
The "green flash", a rare and elusive phenomenon...

by Steve Barker

Environment

Once a year, a group of Australian secondary students packs sleeping bags and snorkels and...

by James Dryburgh

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Wilderness

At about 3pm there was a knock on the door. The sight that greeted me...

by Craig Searle

People, Wilderness

Like childhood innocence, in all its messy, wild perfection, once the diversity and richness of...

by Sonia Strong

Wilderness

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

Wilderness

It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. The sky was...

by Adrian Flitney

Wilderness

At about 3pm there was a knock on the door. The sight that greeted me...

by Craig Searle

Travel & tourism

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

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The Victoria Tavern’s doors are now permanently closed to the public. In honour of the...

by Don Defenderfer

Travel & tourism

Being a woman and a winemaker can be a useful point of difference, says Fran...

by Fiona Stocker

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