INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH

Tasmania Over Five Generations:
Return to Van Diemen’s Land?
by John Biggs
40° South Publishing

Launched by Andrew Wilkie, MP

THE HOBART BOOKSHOP
Saturday 4th February, 2012, at 4 pm

“… a narrative, placed in its social and economic context, which beguiles and entraps. Why have we not learnt from the past? Why repeat avarice, stupidity and abuse of position?” – from Foreword by Justice Pierre Slicer.

You are cordially invited to the launch of Tasmania Over Five Generations:
Return to Van Diemen’s Land? Tasmania’s social and political progress is seen through the eyes of five father-son generations, starting with Abraham Biggs who arrived in 1833 to preach temperance to the convicts, to the author, who converted from Anglicanism to environmentalism after 40 years abroad. He returned to Tasmania to find a tapestry of Byzantine complexity, woven with the warp of government and the woof of corporate power: a pulp mill that represents all that’s wrong with Tasmanian politics, attempts to prevent public protest with law suits, a shredded letter reassembled here, ministerial heads rolling there ….
Abraham Biggs might well look from that distant shore, smile, nod and murmur: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”

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