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Rodney
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Rodney Croome grew up on a dairy farm in Tasmania's north-west and studied European history at the University of Tasmania. He worked on the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, was a founder of Australian Marriage Equality, and currently serves as the spokesperson for the gay right and equality advocacy groups Just Equal and The Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group.


Rodney Croome grew up on a dairy farm in Tasmania's north-west and studied European history at the University of Tasmania. He worked on the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, was a founder of Australian Marriage Equality, and currently serves as the spokesperson for the gay right and equality advocacy groups Just Equal and The Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group.


Tasmanian Voices

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 many deaths of Renee Foster

by Rodney Croome
10 Jun 2023

The young woman in the photo on the wall looked little like the other family portraits in my grandparents’ home in Latrobe ...

History

A people of love

by Rodney Croome
12 Oct 2022

I have already put the case for why the Tasmanian gothic is a counterfeit version of Tasmania, a literary fraud in the case of Hudson Fysh and others ...

Tasmanian Voices

Counterfeit

by Rodney Croome
28 May 2022

Why the Tasmanian gothic is a dangerous fraud

We pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners and continuing custodians of lutruwita, and acknowledge elders past and present.

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