Science commentators clash on communication
IF WHAT an article in The Conversation claims is true, then I’m surprised. Surprised that someone of Tim Flannery’s standing
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The Organ Pipes Track — sunshine and ice
A Tasmanian journey… “WHAT’S THIS?”. Fiona holds out her hand as if to catch whatever it is that has started
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Booklets a waypoint in permaculture history
SOMETIMES, useful things come at small scale. So it was with the 'Useful' series of booklets produced for those establishing
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Forgotten islands
A Tasmanian journey… LIKE THE AUTHOR, when I lived in Tasmania I too felt the allure of the Bass Strait
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Found: the book that influenced a generation
A surprise discovery in a mountain hut closes the circle of time...
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High on a mountain, a little stone hut
High on a Tasmanian mountain there's a hidden hut, so late one day we went to look for it....
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Food security seminar looks at regional issues
It was a city already saturated from days of rain that those of us peering through the big windows of
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Making a better block in Clovelly
FOR MONTHS they had been meeting and now, on the warm Sunday morning of October 27, they were ready. How
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Food security project leaves edible legacy at Macarthur
IT WAS A TALE of two farmers. The first came as a call from a Sydney region grower. Would Ronny
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