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Tasmania
Essays & reportage
Joseph Banks and the stolen skulls
Cassandra Pybus
1 August 2024
Behind William Crowther and other controversial colonial-era figures was the collector
par excellence
Books & arts
Hobart’s gentleman body-snatchers
Ian McShane
25 June 2024
A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus
Books & arts
Double-sighted in the deep south
Jim Davidson
18 December 2023
Richard Flanagan’s latest book is an extraordinary meditation on Tasmania in the world
Essays & reportage
A rainy day in Hobart
Anne-Marie Condé
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
Lifting the shadow
Anne-Marie Condé
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & arts
Writing history in dark places
Marian Quartly
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
National affairs
The turn of the electoral cycle could be a long time coming
Tim Colebatch
27 January 2023
Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition?
Books & arts
The matriarchs
Emma Lee
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
From the archive
Unquiet stories from Liffey
Anne-Marie Condé
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
National affairs
Is the Covid effect fading?
Peter Brent
7 May 2021
Is last weekend’s win for Tasmania’s Liberals good news for Scott Morrison?
Essays & reportage
The names inlaid
Anne-Marie Condé
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
Books & arts
The long journey home
Emma Lee
5 June 2020
Books
| A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
National affairs
Another Downer bound for Canberra?
Norman Abjorensen
16 May 2018
Australian political dynasties aren’t as rare as you might think
National affairs
Is minority government the path to power for Tasmanian Labor?
Kate Crowley
26 February 2018
The Liberals are ahead in the polls, but the state’s electoral system could create a chance for the opposition
Books & arts
Forgotten voices
Greg Lehman
21 December 2015
Books
| Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes
Greg Lehman
Essays & reportage
Drawing a fine line in the Tarkine
Kimberley Croxford
6 September 2013
Can conservation, tourism and industry coexist in Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness?
Kimberley Croxford
looks at the current controversy and the contending pressures
Books & arts
The sense of islandness
Ian McShane
28 June 2012
Ian McShane
reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
Essays & reportage
Looking for an island circuit-breaker
Natasha Cica
24 May 2012
Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes
Natasha Cica
. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a…
Essays & reportage
Island on edge
Natasha Cica
28 April 2011
Tasmania’s feel-good mood has given way to a bittersweet fight over versions of the future, writes
Natasha Cica
Books & arts
Succeeding like excess
Natasha Cica
28 January 2011
Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art opened on Friday night. A day later, Lara Giddings became premier.
Natasha Cica
reports
National affairs
The fabulous fiftieth NSW parliament, and other minority governments
Peter Browne
10 September 2010
Every Australian state and territory has experienced a minority government over the past twenty years. And it’s a surprisingly strong field
National affairs
Tasmania’s governing partnership: the possibilities and the perils
Kate Crowley
6 September 2010
It’s so far, so good, for Tasmania’s Greens-backed minority government, writes
Kate Crowley
Essays & reportage
Safe Labor? On the ground, Denison isn’t so straightforward
Natasha Cica
5 August 2010
This Tasmanian seat might hold a surprise for Labor and the Coalition, wrote
Natasha Cica
during the campaign
Essays & reportage
Re-entering chartered waters?
Brian Costar & Jennifer Curtin
22 March 2010
In Tasmania, Greens leader Nick McKim is pushing for Labor or the Liberals to strike a written agreement with his party in return for its support.
Brian Costar
and…