Archive for October, 2017

Many of you spoke of a difficult time in Hobart, when large employers were leaving the island, consolidating, shrinking, or closing altogether. Many of you, or your parents, had imagined a “job for life” and the shift in the global...

In the late 1950s, it seemed convenient to tear down those trashy old buildings at Salamanca. Many of you talked about it: what nearly happened. You spoke of how Battery Point was nearly razed to build something more modern and...

You’ve just visited Beijing or Melbourne or London or Paris. It’s been wonderful but as your flight home nears its end, you see the long stretch of sand at Seven Mile Beach from the air, and you begin anticipating something....

This is an unusually good place to grow food. Our conversations with you took place in the spring, and you were often coming from or going to a session in your garden. From farmer’s markets to local grocers, it’s easy...

One of you summed up the unpretentious culture of Hobart perfectly: “It’s not what you wear or the car you drive when you go into the bush. It’s the rock you climb.” When you choose Hobart, you sacrifice a life...

Not everyone gets the facts right, when they tell the story. What they do know is on a terrible day in 1975 a freighter hit the Tasman Bridge. Large sections of it fell away and twelve people died. There was...

In every interview, we asked what you are most proud of. We asked what you would miss the most if you were forced to leave this place. Your answers varied. Some of us love that in the Sydney to Hobart...

Londoners, Parisians, Canberrians: inhabitants of a city generally create a common name for themselves, an easy tag. It’s an expression of pride and personality. When we hear the word Melbournian an image immediately pops into our minds. Obviously, we are...

A handful of cities attract most of the world’s attention. Some are old, some are relatively new, but they’re all massive. They’re intensely competitive. They’re people magnets and money machines. One common theme we heard from you, whether you were...