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. The voices are many, but Tasmanian Voices is the beating heart of this website.

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What is domestic violence is?

by Deborah Thomson

10 hours ago

What is domestic violence is?

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How do abusers justify their behaviour?

by Deborah Thomson

21 Mar 2024

Abusers rarely define their behaviour as abusive ...

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What must happen to reduce abuse against women and children

by Deborah Thomson

03 Feb 2024

I am a trained advocate and person with lived experience of partner violence ...

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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 ...

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Platypus dreaming - a cold creek morning

by Geoff Wilmshurst

10 Dec 2023

Mist slowly rising from the water Hanging in space and time Blanketing the surface of a dark - unknown world encroaching on the rocky banks Grasses and low bushes reflecting through in the weak sunlight shining orbs of moisture on their tips The...

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The moral of the story

by Rodney Croome

10 Dec 2023

Let me tell you about the Count’s Tree. It grew near the road to Cradle Mountain ...

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The time for talking about domestic violence is over. We need action!

by Deborah Thomson

02 Dec 2023

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept ...

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Who am I? The loneliness of the abused

by Deborah Thomson

04 Nov 2023

Who am I? The loneliness of the abused ...

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Balls bought, magpies missing

by James Parker

18 Oct 2023

It’s a very worrying time. Readers may remember the worry about about our magpies ...

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Noising into spring

by James Parker

18 Oct 2023

Spring – whatever I say about vague Australian seasons – has definitely sprung.

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Halfway to nonsense

by Peter Grant

08 Oct 2023

A bright spring day in Hobart’s bushland fringe. Birds and blooms abound, the air is full of scented light and a faintly fluttering hope ...

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Financial abuse and support

by Deborah Thomson

08 Oct 2023

Financial abuse is one of the subtler forms of manipulation and control in a relationship ...

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Lessons to be learned, and learned again

by Deborah Thomson

26 Aug 2023

Many men don’t understand why they abuse. And if they’re shown why and shown different ways to engage with their partner in non-violent ways of communication, some men are willing to take that on board. Sending perpetrators to a men’s...

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A ramble through the seasons

by James Parker

27 Jul 2023

Down here on the peninsula, it’s been cold but the jonquils bloomed just days after the winter solstice ...