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Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...

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Saturdays at Salamanca

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Saturdays at Salamanca

SATURDAYS AT SALAMANCA Place are crowded and busy... locals rub shoulders with visitors as they crowd the alleys of Salamanca Market to find local food, local arts and crafts, photography, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables, soft and sweet Bruny Island fudge, Gillespie's fizzy ginger beer...

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Local a selling point at Evandale

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Local a selling point at Evandale

FOOD GROWN LOCALLYseems to be something of a specialty at Evandale Market. A recent visit disclosed sign after sign on a number of stalls advertising the localism of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit...

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Seals, possums and pests… wild in the city

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Seals, possums and pests… wild in the city

Whether its seals or seagulls, in cities, people and animals coexist and both can come out the better for the relationships they develop...

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Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep

CAUGHT BETWEEN rapacious extractive industry on one hand and the sublime beauty of nature on the other, Tasmania remains a paradox in the Australian political landscape. Now, there’s something else to add to the offshore contradiction that is this southern island state – Launceston’s air. Launceston is a small city of around 70,000 that spills north [...]

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In Tasmania – Shakespeare’s excursion into the deep heart of this strange island

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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In Tasmania – Shakespeare’s excursion into the deep heart of this strange island

It was late on a cold Friday evening when I dropped into Desire bookshop. Cars’ headlights had been turned on and clusters of commuters, hands thrust deep into pockets and heads bowed, scurried homeward along the Corso from the ferry wharf. The day was drawing to a close and a chilling wind was blowing in [...]

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Daring and exploration on Tasmania’s wild rivers

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Daring and exploration on Tasmania’s wild rivers

I’VE JUST FINISHED reading Johnson Dean’s Shooting the Franklin — early canoeing on Tasmania’s wild rivers, and have come away with a feeling of great admiration for those early adventurers who made hazardous voyages into what was literally the unknown. Curiously, I came across Dean’s book while in Tasmania during December of 2008. I was in [...]

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City in memory

Monday, December 29, 2008

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City in memory

We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational haunts or to the homes of friends. But geographies remembered and real do not always accord...

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Vignettes of Launceston

Sunday, March 9, 2008

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Vignettes of Launceston

Vignettes of Launceston, a small city on a wide muddy river where the past collides with the future and distant views trigger memories...

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early evening gloom of the rainforest. A short slope leads  from the forestry road to the Fish River. Here is the first challenge. The river is perhaps 10 metres wide and too deep to wade, even if anyone [...]

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