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AFL Aspirations

22 Jun 2021

Saul Eslake came to Tasmania with his parents as an eight-year old. He went to primary school in Smithton, and high school and university in Hobart (graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Economics from UTas). Like so many in that era, he...

TASMANIAN VOICES

The state of the economy

by Ella Michele

22 Jun 2021

Saul Eslake came to Tasmania with his parents as an eight-year old. He went to primary school in Smithton, and high school and university in Hobart (graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Economics from UTas). Like so many in that era, he...

History

Mother (nature) knows best

by Ella Michele

08 Apr 2021

It’s easy to be dismissive of certain trends, like the fads and phenomena that preach a return to all things natural and organic. From interest in caveman diets to curing cancer with food, the notion that mother (nature) knows best is an alluring ideology. The medical advancements that the modern world has gifted us deserve due credit, but the most curious element of these movements involves a switch, so to speak, from viewing our ailments as mutations in need of correction by science, and rather considering pain and disease as the consequence of parting from our natural ways. The controversy behind this mental flip is its allocation of personal responsibility over pain and health, and for this very reason, practices such as the Alexander Technique have never quite earnt strict scientific credibility.

Business

From the paddock to the cloud

by Ella Michele

07 Aug 2020

Reading aloud is not a new experience for Sharon Booth. It’s something that has been required of her as a teacher’s assistant for 10 years and as a published author of four children’s books. Reading without an audience, however, has been a new experience. “I’m not used to working behind a camera. I wasn’t quite sure where to look,” she said.