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Obituary: Marguerite (Ninki) Wynne

by David Hurburgh

5 hours ago

Marguerite Wynne (nee Saunders) was born in Hobart in 1922 ...

Performing arts

Profile: Jane Longhurst

by Rayne Allinson

19 Mar 2025

One of Jane Longhurst’s earliest memories is of sitting under the dining table at home in the inner Hobart suburb of Dynnyrne, listening to aunts and uncles telling stories about family folklore ...

People

Profile: Jo Eberhard

by Stefan Eberhard

21 Mar 2025

My mother was born on the December 5, 1943 in Vancouver, Canada ...

People

Doctor Lisa from Tasmania

by Craig Searle

13 Oct 2024

It is a long way from Tasmania to Sudan, the Congo, Ukraine, Haiti, but they are roads well-travelled by a Tasmanian doctor.

Forty South

Goodbye Gowrie Park

by Val Colic-Peisker

20 Sep 2024

My first year in lutruwita was great ...

People

The shack

by Shelley O'Reilly

15 Jun 2024

I’m a sixth-generation Tasmanian. I feel this place in my bones ...

People

A museum made in his own image

by Craig Searle

25 May 2024

Walking in the door of the Cranks and Tinkerers Museum, one is struck with how little empty space there is ...

Forty South

Let’s talk about vaginas

by Sonia Strong

05 Jan 2024

It’s not often the words vulva and prolapse appear in the first few minutes of conversation ...

People

My island homes

by Mark Heyward

25 Jun 2023

What is it about islands? About islanders? ...

The Arts

Master carver

by Pen Tayler

12 Feb 2023

The overcoat hangs on a wooden coat hanger above a pair of workmen’s boots ...

Epicure

Persia’s Pantry

by Pen Tayler

12 Feb 2023

Arad Niksefat is at a festival in Woodbridge where he is selling his own produce. I buy some Tira Syrup from him ...

People

OBITUARY: Dorothy Hallam

by James Parker

29 Jan 2023

Valé Dof Hallam – the great, pioneering cinematographer and lovely, strong woman. I hope we’ll see her like again ...

People

Small farm dream

by Fiona Stocker

19 Nov 2022

Plenty of times we met over our kitchen table and asked what we were doing, looked around at others our age with salaries, superannuation and private-school educated children. But we were living the dream. And then we weren’t ...

People

A portrait of the writer as a young woman

by Lian Tanner

30 Jan 2022

It’s a strange thing to be suddenly reminded of what life was like nearly 30 years ago. Sometimes it’s a photo that takes you back. Or a smell. Or a letter found at the back of a drawer...