Tasmanian Times
Arts
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Harry Seidler: something better
THE life of Austrian-born, Jewish Australian architect Harry Seidler, who recently died aged 82, was publicly commemorated this week. The service featured...
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The Returning Dead
EACH night I make a drink and wait for them They have become the day’s concluding news, Installments from a world without...
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My favourite books
“Rounding the corner and passing in turn the fire-bell, the Rechabite’s Hall and the flour mill, hearse and coach, resembling two black...
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The Robin
I heard the calling of the Robin The first I’d heard this year Trilled greeting from the seasons Summer’s flown and Winter’s...
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That $30m arts pledge
LITTLE has been written about Premier Paul Lennon’s pledge (Feb 22) to invest up to $30 million over the next two years...
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Tassie devils on the road
Devil Highway ©P.Tapp 1995 Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils, Tassie Devils on the road Four and twenty, more and plenty Tassie devils on...
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Art, truth and politics
In 1958 I wrote the following: ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what...
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A picture of Dorian Gray
My friend and I, we pondered why John Howard looks so well. How Canberra hasn’t damaged him, we’re at a loss to...
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A great actor
TASMANIAN actor Michael Siberry is in New York rehearsing for Spamelot — a wacky musical adaption of the hilarious cult film Monty...
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Shakespeare and Truganini
It’s under wraps but John Malkovich and novelist Nicholas Shakespeare want to make a movie about Truganini, the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal,...
