People

Doctor Lisa from Tasmania

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...

People

The poet immigrant

by Rayne Allinson

19 May 2021

A former poet laureate of Colorado, David Mason, now lives with his wife, Christine, an accomplished photographer, an hour south of Hobart on two hectares of land overlooking the Huon River, the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and the Southern Ocean. Dave and Chrissy are my step-father and my mother. So this is something of a family affair: two Australian women who have both spent many years living in the US, examining and portraying, in words and photographs, an American who has chosen to move his life from 40° North to 40° South. I was asked to write his story, but in the end all I did was ask some questions and let Dave Mason tell his own story, because no-one could do it better.

Forty South

Royal celebration as Princess Mary turns 50

by Chris Champion

04 Dec 2021

As many of you will know, a little but important part of Tasmania lives in Copenhagen, in the person of Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

People

What keeps vets awake at night

by Edie Bishop

19 Oct 2021

The thought of an animal suffering has always upset me. Growing up, we had pet cows, horses, sheep, goats, dogs and various other beasts, that for some reason required a home and found their way to us. I always thought of these creatures as my friends. The idea of pain or suffering befalling them was enough to bring me to tears. Before I had finished school, I had decided that I wanted to be a voice for the voiceless.