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tasmania: dismal endings without new beginnings

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…Now the end was near for the Tasmanian race. The forty-four survivors- twelve men, twenty-two women, ten young people – were taken to an unused penal settlement at Oyster Cove, twenty five miles from Hobart and only fifteen miles from … Continue reading →

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tasmania: presiding over the decay

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under. Tasmania. And the man who was supposed to save them, may have contributed to their extinction… Flinders Island, to northern tastes, is said to hold great beauty: windswept silence, bare central hills, thick and aromatic … Continue reading →