by Kate Bown
writer and photographer KATE BOWN The ferry frolics in the swell. I close my eyes and drift. My velvet chair and the rolling sea are a lullaby for an exhausted mother. A tangle of blonde hair and wind flushed cheeks falls into my slumber. “I’m bored. Can we go...
Performing arts
A song sets sail
by Chris Champion
Take a young and aspiring musician, give
him some Tasmanian-themed inspiration …
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Far north in the boughs of a blood-redwood tree, where the morning mist curls and...
by Roger Chao
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Far north in the boughs of a blood-redwood tree, where the morning mist curls and...
by Roger Chao
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Environment
writer and photographer JAMES PARKER Tasman Peninsula, early 2023 Some people have fairies at the bottom of their gardens – I’ve got a seal. Not any seal, but a (very) large male elephant seal that is about four metres long and weighs (according to my authoritative Complete Book of Australian...
by James Parker
photo PETER GRANT If you go up down to the woods today … On...
by Peter Grant
Some projects are simply beautiful from start to finish, from their quiet intention to the...
by Katherine Johnson
by Peter Grant
On one of our final days we met Taupo, a two-year old female harbouring four...
by Grace Heathcote
Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...
by Rob Shaw
European romanticism – a defining movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries –...
by Peter Grant
For some of the artists steeped in wild Tasmania’s landscapes and iconic endemic flora, this landscape was confronting. “Sadly, for me all the big views contained signs of man, roads and dams so I turned my back on painting them,” Peter Gouldthorpe said. Instead, he discovered closer subjects, such as...
by Andrew Darby
Seven of us walked across the heath, through the sort of morning glow that makes...
by Bert Spinks
Anne is a complex soul. Beautiful, popular and flirtatious, she is also volatile – capable...
by Rob Shaw
Influencer selfies seem invariably to be taken on cloudless days, but the Tasmanian wilderness is not known for its friendly weather or ease of access. I’m yet to see an influencer photograph themselves huddled in a rain poncho in sideways hail, complete with snot icicles, waiting for someone more sensible...
by Sonia Strong
Sometimes during the Tasmanian winter, when the southerly wind blows and I am standing outside,...
by Steve Roden
The Victoria Tavern’s doors are now permanently closed to the public. In honour of the...
by Don Defenderfer
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