The Abels

by Rob Shaw

“In optimal conditions, this is Tasmania at its just-forget-about-the-rest-of-the-world best.” writer ROB SHAW photographers ROB SHAW and CRAIG SEARLE At 1,345 metres, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles, featuring on countless postcards, tea towels and tourist promotions and something of a poster boy for the Scottish...

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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writer and photographer KATE BOWN The ferry frolics in the swell. I close my...

by Kate Bown

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Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

Tasmania’s part-wild, part-subdued heartland

Parting Shot

Parting shot: Tungatinah

Parting Shot

The friendly way

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Tasmanian Writers

writer and photographer KATE BOWN The ferry frolics in the swell. I close my...

by Kate Bown

Top Stories

Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

Tasmania’s part-wild, part-subdued heartland

Parting Shot

Parting shot: Tungatinah

Parting Shot

The friendly way

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Neil the seal

Poet's Corner

Salamanca Market Day

Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

Tasmania’s part-wild, part-subdued heartland

Parting Shot

Parting shot: Tungatinah

Parting Shot

The friendly way

Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

Tasmania’s part-wild, part-subdued heartland

Parting Shot

Parting shot: Tungatinah

Parting Shot

The friendly way

Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

Tasmania’s part-wild, part-subdued heartland

Parting Shot

Parting shot: Tungatinah

Parting Shot

The friendly way

Environment

Environment

writer and photographer JAMES PARKER Tasman Peninsula, early 2023 Some people have fairies at the bottom of their gardens – I’ve got a seal. Not any seal, but a (very) large male elephant seal that is about four metres long and weighs (according to my authoritative Complete Book of Australian...

by James Parker

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photo PETER GRANT If you go up down to the woods today … On...

by Peter Grant

Artists and Artisans, Environment, Science

Some projects are simply beautiful from start to finish, from their quiet intention to the...

by Katherine Johnson

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

by Peter Grant

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

by Grace Heathcote

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The Abels, Wilderness

Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...

by Rob Shaw

The Patch, Wilderness

European romanticism – a defining movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries –...

by Peter Grant

Artists and Artisans, Wilderness

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

Wilderness

Seven of us walked across the heath, through the sort of morning glow that makes...

by Bert Spinks

The Abels, Wilderness

Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...

by Rob Shaw

Travel & tourism, Wilderness

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

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Sometimes during the Tasmanian winter, when the southerly wind blows and I am standing outside,...

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

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