History Frank Simpkinson: the Tasmanian landscape and the depiction of eucalypts by James Parker 21 Apr 2024 ... the difficulty early European settlers had in seeing the Australian landscape objectively, and in depicting the genus Eucalyptus ...
History Wilson of the Steppes by Grace Heathcote 10 Mar 2024 “A visitor may almost imagine himself transplanted into some nobleman’s park” ...
History Understanding Darwin by James Parker 25 Jan 2024 Peter Grant writes beautifully about eucalypts and Charles Darwin’s disparaging comments about them ...
Environment In the dinosaurs’ garden by Fiona Howie 22 Jan 2024 On lunawanna-allonah/Bruny Island lies a garden of primordial plants ...
History The roo economy by James Parker 02 Jan 2024 Some people worry about eating Skippy, and others about killing an animal represented on Australia’s coat of arms ...
TASMANIAN VOICES Jimmy Wright, and the day they moved the goal posts by James Parker 16 Dec 2023 Jimmy Wright was 18 years and five days old on Sunday, October 1, 1967, when he woke up in his hotel room in Burnie and realised ...
History From Kupang to Van Diemen’s Land, the sea is never far away by Mark Heyward 16 Dec 2023 The sea and the mountain are never far from sight ...
Old-timers End of an era by Hilary Burden 27 Sep 2023 Ray Johnston, 83, has lived and holidayed on the Freycinet Peninsula since he was a boy ...
The Arts Landscape-shaped thinking by Jonno Blood 16 Sep 2023 Every second scene here is worthy of painting and prose, a collection of small events that gladden the heart ...
History The graves of Deal Island by Craig Searle 09 Sep 2023 Deal Island is a dot in Bass Strait best known as Tasmania’s most remote National Park ...
History Don and the dredger by Fiona Stocker 04 Feb 2021 Crouched on the shore at Low Head Pilot Station, its windows facing the estuary, is a handsome brick and stone building. Erected by convicts in 1835, it was built as accommodation for the families of the four pilots whose job it was to guide ships into the Tamar Estuary. Today, it houses the Low Head Pilot Station Maritime Museum, run by volunteers and maritime enthusiasts.
History Halfway by Kate Kruimink 16 Jun 2023 You could always hang surplus criminals, but there were murmurings that that was maybe a bit inhumane ...
History Bay of history by Grace Heathcote 28 May 2023 In January 1802, longboats from the French ships Géographe and Naturaliste rowed north up the coast from their mooring in Recherche Bay ...
History Anzac Day: Stories can be dangerous by James Parker 21 Apr 2023 Vladimir Putin recently told a story about the Russian ruler, Peter the Great ,,,