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# Tasmanian Times: The Life of the Island!

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## Posts
- [Tassie Not ‘Left’ Off the List](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/tassie-not-left-off-the-list/): Tasmania will be getting a visit from a left-handed Beatle, not to mention the other three as well.
- [Tas That Was – Lindisfarne (c.1890s)](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/tas-that-was-lindisfarne-c-1890s/): This photograph of Lindisfarne was taken at some point during the 1890s.
- [Candidates Announced for the 2026 Legislative Council Elections](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/candidates-announced-for-the-2026-legislative-council-elections/): Candidates were announced today for the periodic Legislative Council elections in Huon and Rosevears.
- [Important Public Statement about Tasmanian Times](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/important-public-statement-about-tasmanian-times/): The restructure and relaunch of Tasmanian Times has been frustrated by multiple allegations, public commentary and actions involving a former associate and his related entities.
- [News from the Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee Meeting on 8 April 2026](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/news-from-the-hobart-city-council-planning-authority-committee-meeting-on-8-april-2026/): The Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee has considered a development application for change of use to visitor accommodation for Unit 2, 55A Newdegate Street, West Hobart. The vote was tied, meaning the application will now be delegated to officer level for a decision.
- [End of 2025/26 Fire Permit Period Statewide](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/end-of-2025-26-fire-permit-period-statewide/): Tasmania Fire Service has declared the 2025/26 Fire Permit Period for Tasmania will end at 2:00am tomorrow (9 April 2026).
- [The Symbiotic Signing of Emma Memma](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/the-symbiotic-signing-of-emma-memma/): Paula Xiberras recently sat down to chat to with Emma Memma (Emma Watkins) regarding her upcoming ‘Jungle Picnic’ tour in Tasmania.
- [Reverend George Eastman – A Biography](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/reverend-george-eastman-a-biography/): Kind to convicts in life, Reverend George Eastman is said to linger in death at Port Arthur.
- [Seasonal Campfire Bans Lifted in National Parks & Reserves](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/04/seasonal-campfire-bans-lifted-in-national-parks-reserves/): Seasonal campfire bans have been lifted across many Tasmanian national parks and reserves from 1 April 2026.
- [News from Hobart City Council Meeting on 30 March](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/news-from-hobart-city-council-meeting-on-30-march/): Hobart City Council has endorsed a three‑year City Partnership Agreement with DarkLab to support Dark Mofo in 2026, 2027 and 2028. The agreement provides $200,000 per year in cash sponsorship, indexed to CPI, along with in‑kind support to an annual upper limit of $440,656, supporting festival delivery and the City of Hobart Winter Feast Community Day, including naming rights. Dark Mofo delivers significant economic benefits for Hobart, with the 2025 festival generating around $31 million for the city. The multi‑year partnership provides certainty for long‑term planning while strengthening Hobart’s cultural identity and winter visitation.
- [Tas That Was – Lisdillon Saltworks](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-lisdillon-saltworks/): The Lisdillon Saltworks were among the earliest of their kind in Australia.
- [Labor Says It’s Time Easter Sunday Was a Public Holiday in Tasmania](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/labor-says-its-time-easter-sunday-was-a-public-holiday-in-tasmania/): Should Easter Sunday be a public holiday in Tasmania?
- [New Program Offers Tasmanian Artists 18 Months of Paid Work](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/new-program-offers-tasmanian-artists-18-months-of-paid-work/): The Unconformity is looking for artists to develop ideas that are “bold, resourceful, and experimental”.
- [Neil Diamond Tribute Taylor Made](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/neil-diamond-tribute-taylor-made/): A father bringing an album of Hot August Nights home one day in 1972 was the beginning of an obsession for the young Jason Taylor. That album would spend twenty-nine weeks at number one in Australia and for a youngster like Taylor it became the fascination of sneak peaks when dad wasn’t looking.
- [News from the Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee Meeting on 25 March 2026](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/news-from-the-hobart-city-council-planning-authority-committee-meeting-on-25-march-2026/): The Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee has approved a development application for partial demolition, alterations and extension for Unit 2, 526 Sandy Bay Road, Sandy Bay.
- [Tas That Was – Elizabeth College](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-elizabeth-college/): Hobart’s Elizabeth College started life in 1842 as a two-room school built by Holy Trinity Church.
- [Big Ideas at High Altitude](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/big-ideas-at-high-altitude/): Natasha Cica is a director of Kapacity.org and was recognised as one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence, known for helping communities navigate big ideas with clarity and purpose. As founder of the Inglis Clark Centre and co-editor of Tasmania: The Tipping Point?, Dr Cica brings both intellectual rigour and a deep understanding of Tasmania's social and economic fabric.
- [Tas That Was – Cascade Gardens](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-cascade-gardens/): Cascade Gardens is a historic public park in South Hobart, located beside the iconic Cascade Brewery and the Hobart Rivulet.
- [Three Capes Track to Close for Planned Burns & Annual Maintenance](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/three-capes-track-to-close-for-planned-burns-annual-maintenance/): Three Capes Track will close in April 2026 for planned burn operations and annual maintenance.
- [Ovation’s Four Stars Bringing It Home](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/ovations-four-stars-bringing-it-home/): This year’s Ovation tour with Marina Prior and David Hobson will welcome some familiar faces. It was the idea of producer Kate to welcome into the ovation family Silvie Paladino and Michael Cormick.
- [Tas That Was – First Settlers Monument](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-first-settlers-monument/): Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the First Settlers Monument during her 1954 visit to Tasmania.
- [Half of Tasmanians Don’t Have a Will – RHRF Aims to Change That](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/half-of-tasmanians-dont-have-a-will-rhrf-aims-to-change-that/): The Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation is offering free online Essential Wills to Tasmanians from 16-30 March 2026.
- [Tas That Was – Flinders Island](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-flinders-island/): British navigator Tobias Furneaux sighted Flinders Island in 1773, but never landed there.
- [On the Greyhound Industry…](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-the-greyhound-industry/): A compilation of media releases and other material regarding the greyhound industry.
- [On Firearm Reforms…](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-firearm-reforms/): A compilation of media releases and other material regarding firearm reforms in Tasmania.
- [On Housing…](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-housing-3/): A compilation of media releases and other material regarding housing in Tasmania.
- [Poem – ‘Goggle Swingers’](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/poem-goggle-swingers/): by Daniel Buckley
- [Tasmanian Times – Governance Update](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tasmanian-times-governance-update/): As the CEO of Tasmanian Times, I want to reassure our readers, advertisers, and contributors that we are committed to the highest standards of governance in transparency, accuracy, and responsible journalism. Under current management, we have undertaken a thorough review of legacy content and publishing practices, and implemented updated policies to strengthen editorial independence, advertising transparency, and regulatory compliance. Below are our five key policies with further policies, protocols and codes of conduct to be published in due course.
- [News from Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee Meeting on 11 March](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/news-from-hobart-city-council-planning-authority-committee-meeting-on-11-march/): The Hobart City Council Planning Authority Committee has considered a development application for partial demolition, alterations, new front fencing and signage for 6 Washington Street, South Hobart. The vote was tied, meaning the application will now be delegated to officer level for a decision.
- [Tas That Was – Hobart Gas Company](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-hobart-gas-company/): The Hobart Gas Company was established in 1854 under an Act of Parliament, enabling it to manufacture and distribute coal gas and to build and operate a gasworks to illuminate Hobart’s streets at night.
- [On the Macquarie Point Precinct…](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-the-macquarie-point-precinct/): A compilation of media releases and other material regarding the Macquarie Point Precinct.
- [Tas That Was – Pontville](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-pontville/): Pontville began in 1821, when Lachlan Macquarie selected the area as a garrison town.
- [Program Boosts Women in Community Leadership](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/program-boosts-women-in-community-leadership/): TasCOSS has officially opening expressions of interest for this year’s Changemakers Community Leaders Program.
- [On Education…](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-education/): A compilation of media releases regarding Tasmania’s education system.
- [Why I Had to Write a Book: ‘Kanamaluka Fella’](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/why-i-had-to-write-a-book-kanamaluka-fella/): It took Dr Janet Berry over two years to write ‘Kanamaluka Fella’, and now it’s been published.
- [Political Clashes Mark Parliament’s 2026 Return](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/political-clashes-mark-parliaments-return/): State parliament returned on Tuesday, 3 March, and has since been marked by political clashes, fiscal warnings, and competing visions for the Tasmania’s future.
- [Josh Willie’s 2026 State of the State Response](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/josh-willies-2026-state-of-the-state-response/): The text of Labor Leader Josh Willie’s 2026 State of the State Response.
- [Tas That Was – Fingal](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-fingal/): The photograph above, taken in 1899, shows Fingal, a little township in north-east Tasmania.
- [Caravan Park Resident Reforms](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/caravan-park-resident-reforms/): The state government is delivering reforms for long-term residents in caravan parks.
- [State of the State 2026](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/state-of-the-state-2026/): The text of Jeremy Rockliff’s 2026 State of the State address.
- [Karen’s Still a Seeker](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/karens-still-a-seeker/): Karen Knowles is bringing a curated show to the Theatre Royal to celebrate the eve of International Women’s Day.
- [On Tasmania’s Health System](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/on-tasmanias-health-system/): A compilation of media releases and other material regarding Tasmania’s health system.
- [Tas That Was – Tamar Estuary](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/03/tas-that-was-tamar-estuary/): The Tamar Estuary formed millions of years ago. Over time, Aboriginal groups such as the Leterrermairrener, Panninher, and Tyerrenotepanner peoples occupied the surrounding lands.
- [Dry Conditions Trigger Tougher Water Restrictions for Two East Coast Towns](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/dry-conditions-trigger-tougher-water-restrictions-for-two-east-coast-towns/): Stage 2 water restrictions are now in effect for Orford and Triabunna.
- [Tasmanian Times – Statement of Principles](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/tasmanian-times-statement-of-principles/): Our Statement of Principles will set the foundations on which to build the next iteration of Tasmanian Times.
- [Proposed New Gun Law Changes](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/new-gun-law-changes/): The Tasmanian government has ignored community calls for stronger gun laws and bowed to the gun lobby’s demands, offering a premium price for restricted firearms and allowing an unlimited number of firearms for each gun owner.
- [Tas That Was – High Street, New Norfolk](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/tas-that-was-high-street-new-norfolk/): This photograph captures New Norfolk’s High Street in 1930.
- [Antarctica Meets State Parliament](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/antarctica-meets-state-parliament/): Hobart’s status as an Antarctic gateway and science hub is highlighted at Antarctica Meets Parliament.
- [Firearms Consultative Committee Communique](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/firearms-consultative-committee-communique/): Stronger laws to keep firearms out of the hands of terrorists and criminals were endorsed at the inaugural meeting of the Firearm Consultative Committee.
- [Tasmanian Gun Reforms Hang in the Balance as Committee Meets for First Time](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2026/02/tasmanian-gun-reforms-hang-in-the-balance-as-committee-meets-for-first-time/): Tasmanian Gun Reforms Hang in the Balance as Committee Meets for First Time

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## Guest Author
- [John Hawkins](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/john-hawkins/)
- [Paula Xiberras](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/paula-xiberras/)
- [Ted Mead](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/ted-mead-2/)
- [Dr Kate Shield](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/dr_kate_shield/)
- [Madoc Sheehan](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/madoc_sheehan/)
- [Mat Hinds](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/mat-hinds/): Mathew Hinds is an associate lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania.
- [Simon Jackson](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/simon-jackson/): Simon Jackson has lived in Hokkaido, Japan, since 1992, where he works as a businessman and agricultural developer and once served as Chairman of the Hokkaido International Business Association. He’s a fifth-generation Tasmanian, descended from First Fleet and Norfolk Island settlers through the Garth and Bluett families, early seafarers and labour movement figures in the state’s history. Although he’s been based overseas for many years, Simon remains deeply connected to Tasmania and cares passionately about its future its people, its values, and the direction the island is taking.
- [Ruth Forrest](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/ruth-forrest/)
- [Steve Loring](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/steve-loring/): Steve Loring was a recent Legislative Council election candidate for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and is a keen observer of the Tasmanian political scene.
- [Ben Maguire](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/ben_maguire_am/)
- [Rob Donnelly](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/rob-donnelly/)
- [Dr Donnacha McGrath](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/dr_donnacha_mcgrath/)
- [Richard Dax](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/richard-dax/)
- [Linda Cockburn](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/linda-cockburn/): Linda Cockburn lives the life of a Quiet Revolutionary in the Huon Valley, Tasmania. She now writes full time from the family’s straw bale home while experimenting with extending their food production with perennial wheats, naked oats, cool climate chickpeas and breeding new bean and pumpkin varieties.
- [Dr Gabrielle Peacock](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/dr-gabrielle-peacock/): Dr Gabrielle Peacock is a Hobart General Practitioner whose career has evolved from primary health to family health then community health, environmental health, One Health and she is now exploring Cultural Health.
- [Tas Power Democracy](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/tas_power_democracy/)
- [Kelly Sims](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/kelly-sims-2/): Kelly Sims is an independent community advocate after being a councillor for Glenorchy Tasmania for over five years. In the 2022 local government elections she increased her vote and was again elected, however after missing three meetings due to being hospitalised on one occasion, and requiring leave to care for her dying mother, GCC opted to vacate her position. A formal request for leave, or to attend via video link, were refused by the mayor. With over 20 yrs experience as a community and business leader across various sectors she is an advocate for the community using evidence-based facts, best-practice ideals & genuine engagement. 
- [Christine Bayley](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/christine-bayley/): Christine Bayley is a Tasmanian community advocate and spokesperson with People Before Major Parties – Tasmania and Save Rosny Parks. She is dedicated to empowering locals and raising community voices. 
- [Nick Feik](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/nick-feik/): Nick Feik is a writer and journalist, and the former editor of The Monthly magazine. https://nickfeik.substack.com/
- [Qinqin](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/qinqin/)
- [The Axeman](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/the-axeman/): The Axeman clears the deadwood from Tasmanian public life. Oh boy, does he have a lot of work to do.
- [Craig Garland](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/craig-garland/): Craig Garland is a north-west Tasmanian, fisherman and grassroots community advocate turned independent Member of Parliament. He was elected to stand up for the electorate of Braddon in State Parliament’s House of Assembly, following years of campaigning for better fisheries management and speaking out on many other Tasmanian issues.
- [Andrew Jenner](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/andrew-jenner/): Andrew Jenner is the Jacqui Lambie Network Member for Lyons. A former English magistrate and Mayor of the Royal Borough Windsor, he migrated to Tasmania at 17. After time abroad due to family needs, he returned in 2014. Andrew champions political integrity as essential to a healthy and accountable democracy.
- [Miss Facetious](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/miss-facetious/): Miss Facetious is a resident of Hobart, and knows what you’re thinking.
- [Jess Greene](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/jess-greene/): Jess Greene is the Lead Organiser at the Community and Public Sector Union and Deputy Mayor of West Tamar Council.
- [Eliza Jane](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/eliza_jane/)
- [Ben Marshall](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/ben_marshall/)
- [Lara van Raay](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/lara-van-raay/): Lara van Raay is a documentarian, field producer and social impact producer based in Tasmania.
- [Mark Pooley](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/mark-pooley/): Mark B Pooley is a retired architect living in Hobart.
- [YIMBY Hobart](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/yimby-hobart/): YIMBY Hobart - YIMBY stands for YES In My Backyard; YIMBYs advocate for more housing where people want to live - is a community group advocating for housing abundance, giving people choice about how and where they live, lowering prices and increasing the bargaining power of renters and buyers.
- [Cam Walker](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/cam-walker/): Cam Walker is campaigns co-ordinator with environmental group Friends of the Earth and lives in central Victoria. He is an active volunteer firefighter and can be followed on Bluesky and Instagram.
- [360](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/360/)
- [Emily Samuels-Ballantyne](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/emily-samuels-ballantyne/): Dr Emily Samuels Ballantyne is an eco-philosopher, regenerative designer and farmer, as well as founder of Magical Farm Tasmania and Regenera Commons. She is author of the forthcoming series, Soil & Soul. www.regeneracommons.org.
- [Bruce Ransley](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/bruce-ransley-2/): Bruce Ransley was a diver in the early days of the fish farming industry, and has a unique insight into how the system is failing.
- [Dr Graeme Wells](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/dr-graeme-wells/): Dr Graeme Wells is an independent economist, having previously had an academic career in New Zealand, North America and, more recently, as Associate Professor at ANU and UTAS. Since returning to lutruwita/Tasmania he has been a consultant and adviser to a range of private sector and government agencies.
- [Scott Bell](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/scott-bell/): Scott Bell is a fifth generation Tasmanian, with two daughters and four grandchildren. In a previous life he was a general practitioner. Now he spends most of his time living on a covenanted conservation property in NE Tasmania, working as an owner builder, monitoring and recording the resident wildlife, and caring for the remaining flora and fauna. He has an extensive police record with multiple court appearances, fines and convictions as a result of his NVDA climate activism. He enjoys his life, and living.
- [Thinker](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/thinker/)
- [Pieter Verasdonck](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/pieter-verasdonck/): Pieter Verasdonck is a retired planner, degreed in business and philosophy, who helped build resilience, forward planning capacity and income generation in organisations, villages, cities, regions, states and industries working with communities, large and small enterprises, including a decade with NSW Government as Community Economic Development Manager.
- [JT Young](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/jt-young/): JT Young is studying a Master of Public Policy via Macquarie University, and is a keen observer of Tasmanian politics. He also writes on Medium.
- [Celeste Romany](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/celeste-romany/): Celeste Romany is a political observer committee to clean, healthy and accountable politics in Tasmania at all levels of government and public service.
- [Peter Coad](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/peter_coad/): Peter Coad was a former councillor of the Port Cygnet municipality, councillor, Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Huon Valley Council and previous to that had some 15 years in local government, and was  employed as Executive Director of the Building and Construction Industry Training Board for some 29 years. Coad had extensive involvement at a national level in the Cooperative Research Centres program, a development for the construction industry and he established the first Building and Construction Industry Training Fund in Australia. Coad has assisted other state boards with specific  experience in strategic planning and policy development, implementation and review.
- [Tim Hurburgh](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/tim-hurburgh-2/): Tim Hurburgh is a Tasmanian writer, poet and architect living in the central highlands. He is dismayed by the continuous destruction of Tasmania’s natural flora and fauna by forest clearing (including chemical spraying), roadkill, and uncontrolled flooding. He recently published an illustrated book, Tall Poplars, which also deals with the preservation of our natural assets – structures, flora and fauna.
- [Jenny Cambers-Smith](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/jenny-cambers-smith-2/): Jenny Cambers-Smith is a Huon Valley Councillor, passionate about Tasmania's unique environment and wildlife, sustainability and social justice. She has a law degree and has worked in varied roles in manufacturing, local government and consulting. She lives with her family on a mixed farm in Crabtree.
- [Matthew Sharp](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/matthew-sharp/): Mathew Sharp is a transport planner based in Sydney. His specialist skills are in public transport service planning, strategic analysis, and geo-spatial analysis. Originally from Hobart in Tasmania he has experience in public policy, banking, journalism, government, leadership, creative design, and management. You can read his blog here: http://mathewsharp.com.
- [Friends of Glenorchy Pool](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/friends-of-glenorchy-pool/)
- [Cuan Petheram, concerned citizen and taxpayer](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/cuan-petheram-concerned-citizen-and-taxpayer/): Cuan Petheram lives in Hobart with his wife and two children. He has a bachelor and PhD in engineering from the University of Melbourne, is passionate about the outdoors and loves playing all ball sports. He played AFL at high school in country Victoria and while at university in Melbourne.
- [Blake Janssen](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/blake-janssen/): I am a 21-year-old Author from Tasmania with an avid interest and curiosity in the world, asking questions endlessly. I’ve found a deep passion in poetry and writing, especially of Dystopian fiction and deep, meaningful topics like war, suffering and love. If I am to be described as anything, I’d like to be described as an articulate fool.
- [Cameron Hindrum](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/cameron-hindrum/): Cameron Hindrum lives, writes and works in Launceston, Tasmania. Every Sunrise is his third collection of poetry, coming after Private Conversations Volumes 1 and 2, published in 2012. He has written two novels—the first of them, The Blue Cathedral, was revised and reissued earlier in 2023 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the successful campaign to save the Franklin River. His second novel, The Sand, won the University of Tasmania Prize for best unpublished manuscript at the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards.
- [Kathleen Green](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/kathleen-green/): Previously unknown as Betty the devil you know, Kathleen Green was a closet writer, until the door fell off at the end of lockdown. She emerged from the closet with verbal diarrhoea, using that new skill to deter conspiracies of ravens when she is a scarecrow on a hobby farm near Deloraine.
- [Stephen Williams](https://tasmaniantimes.com/guest-author/stephen-williams/): Stephen Williams is a Tasmanian journalist and author. He is the co-editor of the book Sustainability and the New Economics (Springer, 2022).

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