Katherine Johnson
Dr Katherine Johnson is a science writer and novelist based in Tasmania. She has published in The Conversation, Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald) and CSIRO’s ECOS magazine. Her fourth novel, Paris Savages, was released in the UK in July.
Dr Katherine Johnson is a science writer and novelist based in Tasmania. She has published in The Conversation, Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald) and CSIRO’s ECOS magazine. Her fourth novel, Paris Savages, was released in the UK in July.
TASMANIAN VOICES

Reaching out to our hidden homeless

by Katherine Johnson
02 Aug 2021

I had the privilege recently of accompanying two outreach workers from the Salvation Army and two from Hobart City Council on a sobering walk around Hobart on a quiet Monday evening. The group meets every Monday at the end of the Elizabeth Street...

TASMANIAN VOICES

A leaf out of Baudin’s journal

by Katherine Johnson
06 Oct 2020

A prize item on my home bookshelf is a copy of French explorer Nicolas Baudin’s journal from his 1802 scientific voyage of Tasmania as captain of the Géographe. Aboard the sister sailing ship, the Naturaliste, were brothers Louis-Henri Freycinet and Louis de Freycinet, a family name well known to Tasmanians and visitors to the state’s east coast. Freycinet Peninsula, famous for its jagged, orange peaks and clear waters, carries the memories of the expedition proudly on its granite back.