Rodney Croome
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

Who are we Tasmanians?

by Rodney Croome
09 Apr 2021

In my Tasmanian childhood, stars fell to the streets, convicts smashed up pianos, Aborigines guffawed as they romped in flour, packs of devils bit the legs off horses, babies were found behind waterfalls, whole families dressed in sugar sacks and a lost Valley of Gold hidden by forbidding peaks revealed itself but once a year at Easter.