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AFTER SPENDING MORE than fifty years of my life in Tasmania, in 2009 I belatedly joined the brain-drain exodus...

THE INSTITUTE FOR Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), which has brought together scientific leaders from a variety of fields...

By Aaron Smith

TASMANIA'S COMPLEX PLANNING system is often categorised as one of the main hurdles for anyone wanting to do business...

By Elise Archer

PROFESSOR JONATHAN WEST has a powerful intellect and an unquestionable passion for Tasmania. His work has driven and inspired...

By David O’Byrne

WHEN WARLPIRI WOMAN Bess Nungurrayi Price speaks about Aboriginal affairs she does so with a special authority rooted in...

By Kieran Finnane

THIS IS A singular history of drinking – within one Costello family of Irish, French, Spanish and/or Italian ancestry,...

'I'M SORRY I didn't get to that movie you recommended,' said the woman I'd recently met, in an email....

By Kate Veitch

MY OFFICE IS an eclectic mix of cast-off furniture, books, ancient gaslights and modern technology. As parents enter, often...

By Briony Scott

Before battle she brushes her hair /a hundred strokes and sour breath/ Unfolds a vintage blue teal dress from...

By Mandy Beaumont

Pack a suitcase and find me. I'm here in rooms strewn with small purses of coins and stale cigarettes...

By Mandy Beaumont

HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF as a photographer when he'd pulled away from a group of men to tell her how...

By Pat Hoffie

I HATED JUDY'S first boyfriend, as expected. He was oddly shaped, like a sweet potato. His clothes were exactly...