History

A great soldier

THE GG will drop into northern Tasmania on Feb 24th to unveil a memorial statue. Nope, not to sporting hero Ricky Ponting,...

A big year

EDDIE McGuire — the late Mr K F B Packer’s Melbourne journalist-cum-impresario-cum-Top Magpie, single-handedly, if indirectly, responsible for making lots of us...

Recherche Bay …

Much publicity has been given to the logging of a portionof the northern peninsula of Recherche Bay. When my father bought the...

Recherche Bay

Franklin Graham’s mediaeval crusade

Tasmania is about to play host to one of the most influential men in American politics – Franklin Graham. From Friday to...

A queer view of Tasmania’s past

On page 66 of the December 1997 edition of the now de-funct Australian gay magazine Outrage, there’s a small, glowing biography of...

State of Denial

As much as Tasmania’s powerful might see this island as their fiefdom existing in a world they only half believe exists out...

Eye for a bargain

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was enjoying a Scotch at the Athenaeum Club in Hobart where he heard that the new owner...

Tasmania’s shame: The Devil Disease

Even before we Europeans arrived in Tasmania, there was a Devil in Paradise. Today we have Devils in Paradise dying of cancer....

Wretched symbol of colonial oppression

Greetings, my fellow countrymen and drinkers. I would like to think that the time has come for us to actively reconsider the...