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GRIFFITH REVIEW 39
TASMANIA – The Tipping Point?
Edited by JULIANNE SCHULTZ & NATASHA CICA
A collaboration between Griffith REVIEW and the University of Tasmania
For many Tasmanians a darker reality lies behind the seductive tourism brochures showcasing the state’s pristine wilderness, gourmet magazine articles celebrating its burgeoning food culture, and newspaper stories gasping at a world-leading art museum.
Tasmania ranks at or near the bottom among Australian states on virtually every indicator of socio-economic performance — including levels of employment, income, investment, education and health.
Where does Tasmania’s future lie? Has Tasmania reached a ‘tipping point’, politically, economically and culturally?
In Tasmania – The Tipping Point? Griffith REVIEW serves up strategic slices of Tasmania’s past, present and future. Thinkers, writers and doers from Tasmania and beyond, including members of its extensive diaspora, challenge how Tasmania is seen by outsiders and illuminate how Tasmanians see themselves, down home and in the wider world.
We travel from the fight for gay and Aboriginal rights, through economics and politics, to the demise of Gunns and new challenges on the Antarctic frontier. We spend time at kitchen tables and hear personal reflections on family history, working the land, and local hospital systems. We meet Tasmanian artists, entrepreneurs and small-scale farmers, hear the fascinating back story of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), and discover haunting fiction set on Bruny Island, freezing mountain lakes and windswept ferries.
Tasmania has been and continues to be the site of both extinctions and reinventions. The challenges it now faces are relevant to the whole nation. Why Tasmania still underperforms on so many fronts, and what might be done to change this, are important questions ¬— not just for Tasmanians, but also for the nation as a whole. As a microcosm of non-metropolitan regions of Australia, it may well represent Australia’s future.
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FANTASTIC COMPETITION! WIN A MONA ESCAPE FOR TWO
Tourism Tasmania and MONA are offering a fantastic prize to readers of the Griffith REVIEW comprising of two return economy flights to Hobart from your nearest capital city in Australia, two nights accommodation at the MONA Pavilions, three days car hire, two tickets to MONA’s new exhibition Red Queen and one Red Queen catalogue. Simply buy the latest edition of Griffith REVIEW, Tasmania: The Tipping Point?, and register your details at www.griffithreview.com/MONA stating where and when you bought the journal and why, in 25 words or less, you’d like to win the prize. Entries close 5 April 2013.
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