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982The literary life of Reilly’s Tasmanian Tournament
Paula Xiberras I was delighted to catch up with best-selling author Matthew Reilly last week, about his latest book ‘The Tournament’ and...
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Treading trampolines in Tasmania
Paula Xiberras I am talking to Frances whiting the author of ‘Walking on Trampolines’ a suitably metaphorical look at the ups and...
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Lucky Santangelo an ‘Almost’ rare heroine
Paula Xiberras I was delighted when I heard Jackie Collins was in Australia and her publishers wanted her to talk with the...
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The Power of the Melbourne Cup
Paula Xiberras Well yes, I am talking to the ‘Power’ of the Melbourne Cup, in this case, racing journalist Danny Power who...
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Defining Drongo
Paula Xiberras While most Australians know of the word Drongo they probably don’t know of its derivation from the name of a...
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Why Environment Minister Brian Wightman didn’t list the Eastern Quoll as endangered
Watching the 7.30 Tasmania report on 12 July 2013 I was extremely concerned to hear about the government ignoring the plight of...
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Miles Franklin award-winning novelist Anna Funder hits out at media companies
ABC Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Anna Funder is fed up with wealthy media companies expecting her to work for nothing. “They just...
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Tassie’s wondrous past … Linc It
Tasmanian Times now has a permanent link (Linc, left Favoured Blogs’ column) to amazing videos of Tasmania’s past … Rip into it...
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Pilsner Urquell
Pilsner Urquell Czechoslavakia | 4.4% alcohol Urquell, made since 1842 by the Plzensky Prazdroj — try saying that after a few glasses...
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Booker prize: Eleanor Catton becomes youngest winner for The Luminaries
Mark Brown, The Guardian Judges praise 832 ‘extraordinary’ pages of epic novel that New Zealander began writing when she was 25 Eleanor...
