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1.2KArticleThe Chronicle was dying …
The Chronicle was dying after 165 years of publication but it would not get a wake. As he sat at his desk,...
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1.2KArticleFarewell …
The presses are rolling to a stop, the last dregs of a Boag’s ale downed in the journalists’ watering hole, the Hope...
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1.4KArticleLaunched: Among the Willows and Wild Things
A glowing review by Donald Knowler of my mother’s 1930s Nature Diary in the Mercury newspaper today (Sept 29, 2018). Among the Willows and...
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4.1KEconomy
All about Tassie’s endemic birds
• *Pic: BBC: Cockatoo identified in 13th Century European book Line drawing of yellow wattlebirds: John Gould The documentary David Attenborough’s Tasmania...
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1.4KEconomy
The tear of reminiscence …
*Pic: Beatles by Stephen Luff, Flickr First published December 14 A tear hung on Don Bentley’s cheek, refusing to budge, refusing to...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
The commercialisation of the Tasmanian wilderness …
*Pic: Hillary Younger’s photograph Lovers Pattern will be on display at the exhibition that opens at Lot 19 Gallery in Castlemaine, 2nd...
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1.2KEconomy
Wilderness, especially mountains, are so foreign …
The launch of Donald Knowler’s The Shy Mountain by Charles Wooley soon turned into a bunfight after Charles told Knowler to put...
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1.1KEconomy
The wind moaning through the scree and eucalypt canopy screams NO …
“Mountain tragic” Don Knowler has written a book about kunanyi/Mount Wellington which is being launched by Charles Wooley at the Hobart Bookshop,...
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1.2KEconomy
A soaring city reaps a terrible toll
*Pic: Digital image of Fragrance Group’s proposed hotel at 28-30 Davey St, Hobart: Tall buildings, particularly those which are brightly lit at...
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1.2KEconomy
A gentle wake …
Odalisque … Amid fears about tourism development in Tasmania’s wilderness, Don Knowler takes a cruise on Bathurst Harbour in the remote and...
