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Return to romance

by Don Defenderfer
01 Jun 2025

Don Defenderfer’s connection with wilderness is a deeply personal one ...

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The Kiln Eatery, Ranelagh

by Pen Tayler
01 Jul 2023

I crunch across the gravel to the entrance. Through the windows I can see flames in the wood burner ...

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Treasure hunt

by Grace Heathcote
08 Jun 2022

If you go down to the Tasmanian woods in autumn, you’re bound to get many surprises ...

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On Flinders Island, all roads lead to friends

by Steve Barker
04 Jun 2022

I was told before I travelled there that there is A Flinders Way Of Doing Things. And so there is. 

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lungtalanana

by Chris Champion
15 Jun 2021

Garry Richardson is nothing if not laconic. Two years ago, he and a couple of mates were walking along the southern shore of Cape Barren Island looking at Clarke Island, and they decided they would like to walk around it. Circumnavigating Clarke island is a 57-kilometre trek. Other obstacles to the plan included the fact that Clarke Island was, and is, closed to the public, and was a wreck, having been devastated by a bushfire in February 2014. It didn’t stop them.

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Glover country

by Hilary Burden
26 Apr 2021

Even before the meticulous private renovation of the homestead where colonial artist John Glover spent the last two decades of his life, Mills Plains had a pull. It was attractive to the painter who, arriving in Tasmania in 1831, chose this valley in the foothills of Ben Lomond to paint a distinctively Australian landscape with its twisted eucalypts, mystical light and unfenced plains. Glover was so productive in his output living here that contemporary artist Tom Roberts chose to describe the surrounding hills as “Glover Country”.

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Memories

by Pen Tayler
12 Mar 2021

“Cradle Mountain is a very special place for me. As a family we went to Cradle Mountain almost every year of my childhood – at a time when not many other people went there. It was a big part of our lives and it’s where I first took photographs. I feel like we did more than just visit it – we lived it, before we went, while we were there and after we returned home.” ~ Pen Tayler 

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Roar and peace

by Pen Tayler
24 Jul 2020

“The coast as presented to us is completely strewn with the wreck and cargo of the City of Edinburgh, the vessel being literally shivered to atoms and a great part of her cargo washed ashore,” reported the Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen’s...

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The night we went digital

by Chris Champion
29 Oct 2020

English critics have some of the more quotable opinions on the subject of praise. Charles Caleb Colton said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” He also said, “There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.” Noel Coward, perhaps as a defence against attack by rogues, said, “I love criticism, just as long as it is unqualified praise.”

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Tasmanian Gothic

by Elizabeth Barsham
21 Sep 2020

Elizabeth Barsham was born in the 1950s on King Island, where her father was the electrical engineer at a scheelite mine, but soon after her birth the family returned home to Lindisfarne in Hobart. Like many young Tasmanians, Barsham left home soon...

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Adventurers

by Nick Green
16 Aug 2020

Being on a gap year from school, I tend to have a fair few days where nothing’s really planned and I just see what happens. This day was one of those. I woke up and tried to get a few mates keen on a mission up to the Organ Pipes. My plan was to...

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The Paragon Theatre

by Pen Tayler
21 Jul 2020

Queenstown, in Tasmania’s wild west, is well-known for its copper mine, for the scarred hillsides surrounding the town, and for its gravel oval which gives the home team an advantage. It is also home to a rare and wonderful gem: the Paragon...