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The science laboratory
THE CAPTAIN STEERING Australia's Antarctic science program into its second century can't risk getting caught in the wake of...
Status anxiety
'JO, WHY ARE you going to the west coast of Tasmania?' a puzzled friend asked me in 1974. 'That's...
Outside looking in
I QUITE LIKED living on the periphery when I was growing up in Tasmania and I quite like living...
Hotel Royale on Liverpool
WITH A NOD to those jokes about Tasmanians (yes, you know the ones), it's been said that as a...
The digestion of history
WE ARE WEDGED around the edges of my grandmother's dining table. It is a large and imposing table, but...
Censored conversations
A DOG runs up to my husband on a windswept beach on Sunday morning. Tess is a Jack Russell...
When the apple cart tipped
APPLE BLOSSOM BLESSING were an annual event for our family in the late 1960s and early '70s. They were...
Capitalism in conference or democratic gridlock?
THE WORLD TRADE Organisation (WTO) suddenly gained notoriety in Seattle in 1999 when demonstrations against it appeared on every...
We need to talk about the northwest
IT HAD BEEN raining the first time I visited far northwest Tasmania. Which isn't unusual. Rain, that often-fickle decider...
Insecurity in the new world order
WHEN WE AWOKE to the new century on January 1, 2000, after fireworks had ricocheted around the globe for...
Tasmanian utopias
OVER THE PAST three decades, the green hinterland beyond the population centres of the state has held an increasing...
The dancing man
I NEVER MET the dancing man. I watched him plenty of times in a Hobart mall, but not once...
