Tasmanian artist and potter Eileen Brooker celebrated in book on life
By Lucie Cutting
Eileen Brooker first met author Sue Abdullah in the 70s, and their decades of friendship has helped build a book celebrating the 103-year-old artist and potters life.
Actress Joan Marion never returned to Tasmania but loved it from afar
By Lucie Cutting
Tasmania's Joan Marion became a star of the screen and stage abroad; her granddaughter says she maintained a connection to Launceston for much of her life.
Why US-born 'father of radio astronomy' spent most of his life in Tasmania
By Lucie Cutting
Grote Reber helped spark decades of interest in radio astronomy in Tasmania when he decided to call the southern state home.
Respected Tasmanian elder and artist remembered as 'universally loved'
By Lucie Cutting
Uncle Rex Greeno, who became the first Tasmanian Aboriginal man to have a solo exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery last year, dies aged 83.
#IndigenousAustralians #Aboriginal #AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderArt #LucieCutting
Respected Tasmanian elder and artist remembered as 'universally loved'
By Lucie Cutting
Uncle Rex Greeno, who became the first Tasmanian Aboriginal man to have a solo exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery last year, dies aged 83.
#Aboriginal #AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderArt #LucieCutting
Mum finds breastmilk donors on social media to help feed triplets
By Lucie Cutting
A network of privately sourced donors has supplied a Tasmanian mum with hundreds of litres of breastmilk after she realised she would need to supplement her own supply.
Mum finds breastmilk donors on social media to help feed triplets
By Lucie Cutting
A network of privately sourced donors has supplied a Tasmanian mum with hundreds of litres of breastmilk after she realised she would need to supplement her own supply.
Office worker finds endangered spotted handfish dead on Hobart street
By Lucie Cutting
The handfish looked as if it had just "flopped out of the water" when it was discovered by an office worker in central Hobart.
#Fish #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #MarineBiology #LucieCutting
Woman who fled war-torn Europe reflects on her Aussie culinary legacy
By Lucie Cutting
When Ursula Wuttke began selling hot, jam donuts from her shop in Tasmania in the 1960s, the response was "crazy". Her culinary legacy is just one aspect of the almost 100-year-old's life story.
Woman who fled war-torn Europe reflects on her Aussie culinary legacy
By Lucie Cutting
When Ursula Wuttke began selling hot, jam donuts from her shop in Tasmania in the 1960s, the response was "crazy". Her culinary legacy is just one aspect of the almost 100-year-old's life story.
Street in Italy named after Tassie farmer for kindness shown to POW
By Lucie Cutting
Thousands of Italian prisoners of war were put to work in Australia during World War II. The descendants of one POW say a farmer's kindness saved his life and as a gesture of thanks they've named a street after him.
#WorldWar2 #History #HumanInterest #Agriculture #LucieCutting
