Tasmanian Times
Tribute
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1.3KBacall and Bogart
The Look … Lauren Bacall in the 1950s TO MAKE SOME kind of sense of the following, rather fraught, interview, we append...
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Paying Tribute to Peter Sculthorpe
We are very saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE. Born in Launceston in 1929, Peter Sculthorpe became...
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Peter Sculthorpe’s death a ‘huge loss, but he leaves such a big musical legacy’
Peter Sculthorpe interviewed by Peter Thompson on ABC Talking Heads Classical composer Peter Sculthorpe has been lauded as a musical giant following...
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The last Peacekeeper to die (before WW1)
In a few weeks time, on 28 June 2014, it will be exactly one hundred years since the assassination of the Archduke...
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Eve Masterman …. by Matthew Newton
Matt Newton’s stunning portrait of peace-loving Tasmanian poet Eve Masterman … Mercury: Peace-loving Tasmanian poet Eve Masterman dies just weeks shy of...
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Neville ‘Nifty’ Wran
(From Goodbye Jerusalem, 1997) …..Nifty I had known in a different way. When Rosemary Foot had asked in the Legislative Assembly was...
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Farewell to former Mercury journalist David Stockdale, who has died at age 66
IT says something about his status as a local legend that former Mercury journalist David Stockdale was simply known as “Stockers”, even...
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Vale Bob Loone
I write to honour Robert (Bob) George Loone who sadly died on 1st December 2013, aged 73, after a battle with cancer....
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Nelson Mandela, former South African president, dies
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has died. More to follow. ABC here • Guardian Australia’s Tribute … • Christine Milne: Greens...
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‘Lonners’ leaves a legacy
He wasn’t so much a victim of racing as a champion of its cause. His eyes always lit up when he talked...
