Tasmanian Times
Performing Arts
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998Great show!
I don’t go out much at night now. Partly because I’m running out of energy, (I’ve been known to fall asleep in...
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Wanted: Tasmanian Lorax
The call of the Lorax was never more relevant. And never more ignored. Never was there a better time for The Lorax...
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New views crucial to Australia’s literary culture
ISLAND magazine has been an acute observer of the Tasmanian literary scene for decades. It incorporates local voices with national representation, offering...
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Elanee Ensemble Electrifies in North Lilydale
Along with a privileged group of Northerners I was treated to the delights of the Elanee Ensemble on the afternoon of Sunday...
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From Silent Spring to Big Porn Inc
The book Big Porn Inc will challenge most people’s thinking about pornography and its very real and harmful consequences. There has been...
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Comfortably numb
I am in a bar somewhere in inner city Melbourne, comfortably numb. My companions are half my age; fine young men, and...
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The Barbarians are coming …
The last time I was in City Hall, Hobart it was to hear a fiendish roar; a demonic cacophany; a bewitching cackle;...
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Why the mining boom should be slowed
This article in The Conversation today is a useful reply to Stephen Kirchner’s and to Peter McDonald’s argument that we need more...
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Window to Togatus (6): Beautiful Lies
This French comedy starring Audrey Tautou, Sami Bouajila and Nathalie Bayewill leave you feeling quite chipper indeed. Emilie (Tautou) owns a small...
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Window to Togatus (4)
Oranges and Sunshine Between the 1920s and 1970s thousands of British children were forced to migrate to Australia under the guise that...
