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MILD MANNERS can conceal a violet personality and conspiracy theories can lead to murder. That is the realisation following media…

Few of those spreading disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and government attempts to stem it knew what they were resurrecting…

I KNOW THAT I am not alone in feeling this way. What I am talking about is this pull between living-in-place and life as movement, between…

A lesson about messaging from Tasmania’s 2021 state election stresses the importance of avoiding polarisation in your campaign…

JUST FOLLOW the road out of town and take the turnoff, she said. Okay, we’ll do that I say, knowing how easily we could get lost following…

It is 2019. We are about to become unmoored and leave this place that has been home for years.

Nomadland. There are a lot of people living there now. Those who have the portable work skills or the financial means can freely choose the…

THERE IT IS at the bottom of the clearing. A modest shack of weathered grey boards with a roof of galvanised iron. In its simplicity, this…

The Tasmanian Poetry Festival crew have done it again. Last year it was the Bob Dylan-Joan Baez Tribute Concert. This year it was a tribute…

Why did I decide to read this book? It was because the publishers pre-release copy of a new book I was reading seemed too-hard-going. I was…

ARTIST, writer, traveller, explorer. Everett Ruess was all of these. He was also an inspiration to other writers who tried to make sense of…

Originally published July 2009.