Tasmanian women undergo either surgical or medical abortions for all sorts of reasons, yet access in the state remains confusing … More
Category: Features
Launceston’s 2020 property market great for investors, bad for homeless
While all eyes have been on Hobart’s housing crisis in 2019, Launceston’s property market has been quietly growing at comparable … More
Behind-the-scenes with gigantic puppet production King Ubu
See the article with photo gallery here. In true Mona Foma fashion, the festival is in the middle of pouring … More
Review: Aboriginal-owned four-day wukalina walk
See the article with photo gallery here. The first time I went to see Clyde Mansell, the former chairman of … More
Secrets of success for skilled migrants happy in Launceston
In November, skilled migrants who had moved to Launceston shared the experiences of racism that caused them to leave. There … More
The Baptist pastor leading Launceston’s climate inaction fight
Some see contradictions between Christianity and fighting climate change. Perhaps the end of human civilisation through natural disasters is God’s … More
How The Gloaming’s Vicki Madden went from Brooks High to TV powerhouse
‘Showrunner’ is an industry term for a writer in control of a television production. Shonda Rhimes, behind Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal; Phoebe Waller-Bridge, … More
Tasmanian Aboriginal culture celebrated with 600 people in North-East
About 600 people travelled from across the country – and New Zealand – to be on country together at Musselroe … More
A councillor, a grandma: meet Launceston’s rideshare drivers
Since June 2018, two rideshare apps have started operations in Launceston. Their peer-to-peer model – the same one as AirBnb … More
‘Go back to your country’: Why skilled migrants leave Launceston
In February 2017, Samiul Ahsan came to Launceston for the first time. A brown-skinned Bangladeshi man in his late twenties, … More
Out with the Salvos Street Team at 1am in Launceston
At 11.30pm on a Saturday night, three yellow-jacketed women are marching steadily down a lamp-lit CBD street. The yellow jackets … More
The 64-year-old Exeter man hiking 12,700 kilometres
It is incredibly difficult to think about nothing but your most basic needs. Try it, now. Go on. Stop thinking … More
Revolting teenagers: One school striker’s future under climate change
When Gabrielle Dewsbury, 17, finishes school, she thinks she’d like to be a doctor. She isn’t 100 per cent sure … More
The nine nuns cut off from the world in West Launceston
At an unassuming, modern church at 7 Cambridge Street, West Launceston, nine nuns live in complete separation from the rest … More
After Poland was left to Stalin, its soldiers built our Hydro scheme
On May 8, 1945, after six years of unimaginable horror, the world released its breath as Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered … More
Meet the man behind the memes: Russell Redmond is the creator of the Launceston Memes Facebook page
BOAG’S WARRIOR: Redmond with a suit of armour he made out of Boag’s Red tins. Devotion to the beer is … More
Guide to Dark Mofo 2019
Ogoh-Ogoh at Dark Mofo 2018. Picture: Dark Mofo Australia’s coolest and coldest festival kicks off on Thursday and runs until … More
North-East Rail Trail: The issue, the anger, and what comes next
Read the full story with interactive elements on The Examiner website A Legislative Council Inquiry into the future of the … More
Family raising three children in tents at Mt Pleasant
A Launceston couple has been raising three children in tents after being evicted from a public housing property. Leah and … More
Woman allergic to sun walks from Launceston to Hobart
PART ONE Photosensitivity is a rare condition that, if you haven’t heard of it, sounds like something out of science … More
How to solve Tasmania’s housing crisis
Tasmania is the most unaffordable state, relative to income, to rent or buy a house. With the Select Committee on … More
Welfare-to-parliament: Tassie’s battler politicians
In the lobby of the Charles Mantra Hotel, senator Helen Polley’s media advisor returns from the front counter with two … More
Forced adoption: stolen babies, family secrets, unsolved mysteries
On March 30, 1975, Carol Maney woke up on a hospital gurney. She was hazy and confused, utterly disconnected from … More
The grassroots movement of men fighting to be able to be vulnerable
What does it mean to be a man? It’s become a fraught question in the #MeToo era. Stories of men’s … More
Meet the faces behind Launceston’s homelessness statistics
On any given night in Tasmania, about 1600 people experience homelessness. And that number is only increasing. As Shelter Tas … More
How the true-blue Workers Club became Launceston’s hippest party space
What is surely Launceston’s staunchest holdout of a bygone era has somehow become one of the city’s coolest venues. The … More
On the ground in Miena, as town endures fourth week of bushfires
See the article and photo gallery here. In the blackened, Central Highlands town of Miena, everyday life has taken on … More
Robbie Arnott on his debut novel Flames, a Tasmanian fantasy adventure
To outsiders, Tasmania can already seem like a fantastical place. Alien landscapes sprout all over the central highlands, with cushion … More
