Tasmanian Voices

Tasmanian Voices is a series of columns offering opinions and perspectives on a range of themes. The themes are many, but they all have one thing in common – Tasmania.

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Batty

20 Feb 2022

“I cannot remember anyone ever teaching me about Tasmanian microbats at school ... “

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Issue with the family law system

20 Feb 2022

Although I went through the Family Law Court system over a decade ago, it appears that little has changed.

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Backyard biochar

13 Nov 2021

In the Amazon basin of South America, where heavy rains leach soils of nutrients very quickly, the indigenous Indians found that adding charcoal soaked with beneficial liquids prevented this. This soil additive is now known as biochar. Ready-to-use...

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Why didn’t you leave?

13 Nov 2021

Victims of abuse are asked this – why didn’t/don’t you leave? Or, if it is so bad at home, why does she/he leave then go back to him/her? They are the wrong questions. These are questions that stigmatise victims of family abuse. The conversation...

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Lyndon Riggall

14 Sep 2021

Lyndon Riggall is a northern Tasmanian writer and English teacher at Launceston College and co-host, with Annie Warburton, of the Tamar Valley Writers’ Festival Podcast. His first picture book for children, Becoming Ellie, was published by Forty...

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Saul Eslake

08 Apr 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...