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Tweet Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence introduces an essay by prominent Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan on the decline of the once mighty Gunns timber company — a tale he describes a parable of corporate hubris. GUNNS AND ROSES by...
Tweet An accelerating shift towards accepting gay unions around the world is borne out by Tasmania’s vote in favour of same sex marriage yesterday, writes Alan Austin. In Independent Australia in May it was suggested that the early months...
Tweet Thylacine researcher Col Bailey is convinced the Tasmanian Tiger still exists out in the remote Tasmanian wilds — because, in 1995, he says he saw one with his own eyes. The thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger “Due to the similarly...
Tweetby contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence Today is the 3rd anniversary of the apocalyptic Victorian bushfires — as well the 45th of a similar tragedy that befell Tasmania in 1967. Contributing editor-at large Tess Lawrence was touched...
Tweet“Winged cherubs are often found on gravestones for babies from the early colonial period in Tasmania. This tradition may have drifted over the years, as in 1855 the symbol is found on the gravestone of a teenage girl in Rokeby, the...
Tweet Tension is rising in Hobart at News Limited plans to export Tasmanian sub-editing jobs to Melbourne and edit the state’s major newspaper interstate. Hobart Alderman Damon Thomas reports. TASMANIA has an enviable reputation for quality...
