Fighting for the Australian super light­weight title on 14 September, Rokeby boxer Beau Woods has eyes only for gold. Now based on the Gold Coast, the emerging fighter feels that life experi­ences, both in and out of the ring have him primed to become Tasmania’s newest champion.

The Woman Booker Prize Club is a local Hobart book club. Here they share their thoughts on books by Tasmanian authors, set in Tasmania, or about Tassie topics. Over to the club!

The premise of Last Summer feels ripped out of a clickbait news headline: a lawyer who defends survivors of sexual abuse initiates an affair with her teenage stepson. But don’t let that description set the wrong expectations.

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The Woman Booker Prize Club is a local Hobart book club. Here they share their thoughts on books by Tasmanian authors, set in Tasmania, or about Tassie topics.

The upcoming film, Ancestry Road, was shot across 17 days in Oatlands and the surrounding Midlands. We spoke with Melbourne-based director and writer Glenn Triggs about making the film in Tassie.

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this month.

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this month.

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this month.

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this February.

If we can’t talk about our feelings, they may bottle up inside us – and one day explode, like a hastily-uncapped bottle of fizzy drink that has been rolling around in the car for too long…

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this February.

Check out these awesome events going on around Hobart this month, or make a weekend of it and travel a little further afield.

Dive into the month ahead with practical star insights – your guide to navigating the cosmos this February.

Lost Edge, a new Hobart clothing brand, has hit the streets. We caught up with founders, entrepreneurial Hobart teens Luke Harris and Hugo Allison, to chat about the launch and the mission behind Lost Edge.

Tasmania has the lowest literacy rate in Australia, which presents a range of social issues. Emma Sells is an accountant in Hobart and volunteers with Connect 42, an organisation helping to increase literacy levels among Tasmania’s prison population and disadvantaged communities. She’s the treasurer on the board, as well as an active volunteer in our prisons.

Jay Chapman’s own journey through a cancer diagnosis and treatment was the catalyst for her to start Homely Retreats. It’s a growing Hobart not-for-profit providing a much needed service that fills a gap in respite services available to cancer patients and their families.

It’s the Autumn of 2019. I’m sauntering happily into my kitchen until something catches in the corner of my eye. I stop abruptly and freeze. I am locking eyes with an audacious mouse on my stovetop. Caught mid-munch, my new housemate stares back. The mouse was the braver of us both, and made the first move, scampering at great speed under my kitchen fridge. It didn’t take long for me to realise that this mouse had brought its family and friends along to an extended, all-you-can-eat holiday at my place.

Hey parents! Happy first anniversary of sending the kids back to school after Covid-induced home-learning! Did you, like many, rejoice when the school gates reopened in May last year? Or did you consider ongoing homeschool? Sarah Aitken meets a family who never got the school uniforms back out.

Meriem is a registered nurse with a passion for running. This May, she’s using her running to raise money for children living with serious illnesses in Tasmania.

Richard Flanagan is angry. He’s angry and he’s sad, and that anger and sadness emanates from every single page of his latest release, Toxic: The Rot­ting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry.

Some might say you’re not really Tasmanian until you’ve seen a ute stockpiled with illegally caught firewood.

Natalie Venettacci is an actor and teacher who is about to direct her first play.

Melody Towns is the founder of Be Hers, an organisation that’s working to end slavery and exploitation. She also started the Be Hers Sewing Centre, providing jobs to Hobart women in need.

If you’ve ever driven up toward kunanyi/Mt Wellington from Hobart via Huon Road, you’ll have seen the iconic independent service station, Skyline.

Sarah Clark is using her skills in gardening to help the homeless in Hobart.

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them,” so said Eyeore.

As we gradually conquer the Covid travel restrictions we’ve been enduring, dreams of exploring mystical locations can soon be a reality again.

Grant Wise knows more about the Ansair Kingston bus factory in Kingston than most people.

What happens when street art and opals combine? Jeweller Luke Eliasz is there for it.