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The world is changing at a rapid pace and even though we’re living on a little island at the edge of the world, we’re not immune. Not by a long shot. Covid-19 has changed everyone’s lives and continues to force us all to be adaptable and play our part. You might notice our new look. We’re excited to share our covid “pivot” bigger pages, more pages, more community news and more stories about the people and places that make Hobart what it is. We’ve also used the time to create a brand new website - head on over to www.thehobartmagazine.com.au to check out the new look there too! This month our cover guy, cyclist Richie Porte, talks to us about his Tour de France prep, which has been pushed back because of Covid-19 smack bang into the impending birth of his second child. He shows that we’re all juggling stuff right now! We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you for picking us up and reading our pages, and thank our advertisers for supporting us. We’re a small family-owned business and your support means the world. Cheers, Steph, James and The Hobart Magazine team
WHAT’S INSIDE 03 Welcome
22 Sci Art Walks
34 Derwent Entertainment Centre
04 Local People
24 Safe Boating
36 Science
06 Hobart Happenings
26 Korongee Dementia Village
38 History
12 Thumbs Up/Down
28 Psychology
39 Readers Pics
14 Cover Feature - Richie Porte
30 Madame Saisons
20 Feature - Migration
32 Virtual Hobart Town
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LOCAL PEOPLE
XENIA & NATALY Interview: Emily Conolan
Xenia and Nataly met through the TasTAFE AMEP Volunteer Home Tutor Program and have forged a strong friendship while Nataly practised English language. AMEP is the Adult Migrant English Program. Xenia: My family’s from Greece – my grandparents often tell me how hard it was to learn a new language. That’s the reason I signed up to be a tutor in the first place. I wasn’t matched with a student for quite a while. And then the coordinator said, ‘I’ve got a girl called Nataly, she’s your age, she’s from Syria, and I think you two would get along.’ As soon as we saw each other, we were like, ‘Oh, I like your jacket!’ ‘I like your shoes!’ We just hit it off straight away, and I thought, ‘This is going to be fun.’ I felt scared at first because I was responsible for someone’s learning, but Nataly really wanted to improve her conversation skills. We’d meet up in a public area, go shopping, and make a day of it, so it got easier. Nataly and Xenia
I like how she’s so bubbly – it was so easy to get along. As soon as I walked in, her family welcomed me with open arms. Greek and Syrian families seem very similar, we have a lot of the same values and traditions. I think it’s helped me understand a lot more. I didn’t know a lot about Syria, and I don’t know a lot of people my own age who have started a different life, and I think it’s opened my perspective. I watched her walk down the aisle – it was a surreal moment. She looked so beautiful. I’ve only ever been to Greek weddings, but Syrian weddings are just as amazing! All the dancing, all the food – it’s one of my happiest memories.
Nataly: I don’t like to talk about the war in my country, but before the war, Syria was really nice and safe. I left when I was 18. It’s so hard when you come here, you don’t have any friends. The first meeting, I was worried if Xenia was going to understand my English, my thoughts, and my traditions. But when she said, ‘My family is from Greece,’ we found common traditions, and that made me really comfortable. Especially when I was preparing for my wedding, I started explaining to her and she was like, ‘Don’t explain, we have the same thing!’ I like how she is calm, and kind. I remember that day when she said, ‘I think your English is starting to be good, I think we have to sign off the program.’ I thought maybe she was going to say, ‘That’s it, goodbye, nice to meet you,’ but she said, ‘No, we’re still friends, we’ll still go out and meet each other.’ Every step in my life she’s with me – she’s so kind. I love her! I’m so excited to be going to Xenia’s wedding. I like this relationship with her, I like the respect for each other; we understand each other. Even when I say something that I think she can’t understand, she’s like, ‘I know what you mean.’ Australia has some very big differences from my country, but now everything is fine for us, we’re used to it. To find out more about becoming a volunteer home tutor for the program contact: TasTAFE.home.tutor.ELS@TasTAFE.tas.edu.au.
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HOBART HAPPENINGS CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! The Frank Hurley Photography Awards is an international competition to find the best in new photography. It honours the spirit and adventurous career of James Francis ‘Frank’ Hurley, OBE, best known for his Antarctic work with Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton. The awards are presented by the Mawson’s Huts Foundation, of which David Jensen, AM is chairperson. “Frank Hurley was no stranger to Hobart, spending time here capturing images of the town before and after his two voyages to Antarctica with Mawson in 1911-13 and 1929-31,” David said. “His images of the Douglas Mawson’s ship the “Aurora” departing Hobart on December 2, 1911 and of members of Australasian Antarctic Expedition work on the waterfront are in the national archives and the Mitchell Library in Sydney.” By all accounts, Hurley made himself at home here in Hobart. “While Mawson used Hadley’s Hotel as his office, Hurley and other members of the expedition found accommodation elsewhere in Hobart and were very popular guests of the local community,” David shared. “Prior to the departure, Hurley spent days
photographing the city including views from Mt Wellington and of the team working on packing supplies on Queens Wharf which sadly burnt down years later. It’s hoped many Tasmanians will enter the Frank Hurley photo awards and help honour this great Australian.” www.frankhurleyphotoawards.com
HIKE YOUR WAY TO HAPPINESS Tasmanian Iconic Walks is gearing up for their third wilderness bush walking event in Tasmania, on 7 November 2020. After some concerns about what COVID-19 would do to the chances of running the event, the organisers have been celebrating the recent green light to hold the fundraising event on the beautiful Tasman Peninsula. In teams of four, walkers will traverse the Tasman Arch to Fortescue Bay trail, while raising money for Stroke Foundation (their charity of choice). Registrations open early this month, so it’s time to get fit, and get ready to take part in TIW’s award-winning fundraising hike. Sign up to their early bird email series at www.tasmanianiconicwalks.org
POKIE LOSSES SPIKE The Department of Treasury and Finance recently posted the figures for the days gaming venues were open in June once restrictions were lifted, from the 26 - 30 June. In five days, more than $2.6 million was put through the machines, about $525,000 a day. Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb shared, “With even with fewer machines operating due to social distancing, this was a spike of more than 25% per day compared to March this year.” 6
RIVULET RUBBISH A few readers have told us of their concern about the amount of rubbish lining the Hobart Rivulet since the big downpour in June. The stretch from Cascade Brewery down to Hamlet Cafe is particularly bad. Let’s hope the poor ducks don’t get confused and choke on some plastic.
CHANGES TO UNDERAGE STRIP SEARCH RULES New recommendations about the potentially traumatic practice of stripsearching (or ‘personal searching’) children at reception prisons in Tasmania were put forward by the Commissioner for Children and Young People last year. “The Government has accepted, or accepted in principle, all of the Children’s Commissioners recommendations in relation to personal searches,” the Attorney-General, Elise Archer, shared with us. “The Tasmanian Government will consult on draft legislation later this year which will address the recommendations by the Children’s Commissioner.” We’re told they will remain committed to implementing any measures that will ensure the dignity and self-respect of children and young people in the custodial process, which is a step in the right direction.
ABSEIL THE EDGE IN 2020 The EDGE abseil is on again at Wrest Point on 6 September, for Father’s Day, fittingly named EDGE – Do it for Dad 2020. Participants scale 60m down Wrest Point tower to raise funds for the RHH Research Foundation. To register to abseil or donate to local medical research email research@rhhresearchfoundation.org
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SPONSOR THE DERWENT SCORPIONS TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS! You might remember back in September last year we featured two local Glenorchy cricketers, Shaun and Zac. They had faced a bit of adversity and through it all managed to put together a cracking cricket team packed with international players. They were even featured in an SBS documentary last year, exploring their story of hardship and inclusiveness. They’re on the lookout for a sponsor to help them with their entry fee to the ICSL T20 cricket competition starting in October. For a $1000 investment, there’s some fun benefits like entry to games, invitations to club functions and a guernsey. We’ll also cover the sponsorship story in a future issue, for a little extra incentive. “We’ve had many players in our squad from all different backgrounds, people who are disadvantaged, suffering from mental illness and homelessness, as well as people who have never been accepted into cricket teams nor given the chance they’ve deserved. Over the years we have taken them in under our wings,” Shaun shared. Let’s get behind the Derwent Scorpions! Email Steph at editor@thehobartmagazine. com.au for more details.
HOBART HAPPENINGS DRESS FOR SUCCESS BACK IN BUSINESS The work of Hobart charity, Dress For Success has never been more important, as unemployment grows in the wake of COVID-19. Their aim is to empower women to achieve economic independence, they’ve been offering support with CVs and work-ready outfits since they opened in November 2019. “Dealing with a global pandemic in the first six months of operating wasn’t exactly in our business plan,” said General Manager, Amanda French. “We’re seeing a whole different group of women experiencing unemployment like never before. We are prepared to see women come through our doors in the coming months that may never have experienced unemployment before, but have now lost their job due to industry shut downs and the impact that COVID-19 has had on different businesses,” she said. If you need support, or have quality work clothes to donate, head to www.hobart.dressforsuccess.org.
RETREAT AGAIN TO THE HAVEN Parents rejoice, The Haven is open again now with new hours, from 10am - 12 midday on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The volunteer-run family havens in both Hobart (121 Macquarie St) and Launceston (11-13 Wellington St) are a spot where parents can feed a baby, change poo explosion, make a cup of tea and meet other parents. All families and carers are welcome at The Haven and entry is $2 per family. You can also stay in touch via Virtual Haven, with talks, workshops and social Zoom catch ups for parents and storytelling and making sessions for kids.
A NEW ONLINE HOME FOR THE HOBART MAGAZINE We’re excited to share our new website with you! Launched in June, the new website features more stories, more local news and more ways to engage with other readers and the community. You can sign up to our newsletter and take a look at all our past issues, dating back to our launch issue from May 2018. We love hearing from our readers and are always keen to listen your feedback and story suggestions. Check out our new online home at www.thehobartmagazine.com.au.
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HOBART HAPPENINGS BRIDGING THE DESIGN GAP Potential designs for the $576m Bridgewater Bridge have been released, with two options on the table for now. Some are questioning the omission of options for rail and the merit of removing the old bridge vs leaving it there. The first option is for a new two-lane bridge to be built and the replacement of the existing bridge with a new bridge, providing two lanes in each direction. The second option would see a new four-lane bridge built, with two lanes in each direction.
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FROM POACHING TO COACHING: SHFC REBOUNDS In the off-season South Hobart Football Club lost players to rival clubs. Club president, Victoria Morton sees it as an opportunity for growth and a chance for fans to get behind their club as they vie for the winter titles. We heard the Glenorchy Knights and Olympia FC Warriors poached players. Was it tough to see them go? Nearly every player in Tasmania is an amateur. They’re free to leave a club and can’t be held for more than 7 days. So whilst we’re disappointed players from our club left, they’re free to do so but it was very tough to see them leave. They had been an integral part of our club and had given fabulous service for many years. There’s a certain sense of pride in looking round many Southern clubs and seeing South Hobart FC Academy graduates take to the field. It shows that our youth development programs are doing what we set out to achieve - to create great young football players. There’s a growing conversation at National level regarding a fair commercial transfer system. This would reward clubs like mine who develop young players with a transfer fee. Clubs who put an emphasis on player development would receive a fee for the movement of their home grown players. This fee could then be invested back into the 10
home club to improve our academy even further. This system is used world wide and would make sense in the Australian football ecosystem. What opportunities has the exit created at South Hobart Football Club? Our players leaving provided many opportunities for our talented and ambitious players to step up and play senior football. There’s strong competition for places and this is healthy at a football club. I might add that five female Academy graduates played in the top tier of women’s football last weekend too. Does this fire up the rivalry between the clubs? Rivalry is great for football. We’ve had a particular rivalry with Olympia for years and that has created an exciting atmosphere for both sets of supporters. That is what football is all about, passion and support. Football is nothing without supporters. What role does your academy play in the success of SHFC? The Academy is essential for the growth of our club and even during the pandemic our numbers have soared. Our code of football is bottom up funded, therefore we need to be completely self sufficient as we pay our governing bodies and not the other
way round. Football doesn’t attract large broadcast rights either, so funds are always tight. Our sponsors are marvellous but, especially in this post COVID world, will be very hard to sustain. Our Academy has become the major focus of our club. It provides a stream of talented youngsters who wish to train and play at the highest level possible. National Premier League clubs are now forging ahead with their own academies and this is the norm rather than the exception. What is lacking in Tasmania are pathways for our talented players. We need our own national representation in the A-League and W-League. Whilst the Academy is thriving it must not be forgotten that a very small percentage of players make it at the professional level. The emphasis at our Academy is that those who attend are nice people first and fabulous, footballers second. Community first! Women’s Super League kicks off
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THUMBS UP Check out the new Sushi Sandy Bay (near Woolies), serving beautiful sushi rolled to order. Toilet paper hoarding has had a silver lining, Who Gives A Crap has just donated $5.85 million (50% of their profits) to charity partners working on water, sanitation and hygiene projects. Holy shit! In light of the Victorian Labor branch stacking scandal and the upcoming Major Projects Bill hitting parliament, it’s time to review the rules on reporting donations to political parties. We currently have the least transparent rules in the country. Got a sniffle? Get a covid test. There are new tests out now with skinnier probes, so don’t let sticking a little stick up your nose stop you from playing your part. We can’t go to Mona, but we love Spectra each Saturday night.
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Imagine you’d been slogging it to open a new business, then a pandemic hits. Do you troop on or quit it? Hats off to those who have opened businesses in the past few months. In early July, Hobart Crowne Plaza rolled out the red carpet for hotel and restaurant guests, and Replay Bar, a retro video game arcade, got busy serving drinks in their bar in Elizabeth Mall (above Off Ya Tree!). The much-awaited Crescent Hotel is now open just off the North Hobart strip, with a refreshed downstairs bar and upstairs dining room featuring a modern pub menu and solid drinks list with local wines, beers and spirits. Dana Eating House, a concept by Hobart brothers Dan and Ollie Lancaster, is set to open on Murray Street early August. “We want to implement a charitable model alongside our regular trading. There’s room in our industry to do more. As a business we’ll endeavour to work alongside charitable groups to create a dining experience that enables our customers to do a little more than the ordinary,” the guys shared with us. Cygnet is also heating up with the recent opening of The Port Hole Cafe in late July in the location that once was Lotus Eaters and the Red Velvet Lounge changing hands.
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From Tassie to Le Tour: Richie Porte Interview: Stephanie Williams Images: Supplied
Having grown up in Launceston, cyclist Richie Porte now plays on the world stage, cycling in iconic races such as the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Paris-Nice. While he’s suffered from a few injury setbacks in his career, Richie is gearing up for a strong showing when the latest Tour kicks off on the 29th August, 2020.
What role has your Tassie childhood played in your life? I think coming from Tassie I didn’t really realise at the time how privileged you are to live in a place like that, that is so relaxed and natural, and people are generally so down to earth. There’s a lot of good people there. I remember the happy memories of growing up on the east coast on our shack, obviously I grew up in Launceston, but I spent a lot of time on the East Coast and they’re some of the best memories I have, still to this day. How did you get into cycling? I was doing triathlon and went as far as I think I would have with that. I enjoyed the cycling the most, I was knocking around with cyclists at the time and the next thing a few months later I was riding with the Praties team based out of Hobart with Andrew Christie-Johnson and Steve Price who still run that team. Was the decision to leave Tassie for Europe a hard one or a natural progression? It was probably a natural progression, if you want to make a career out of cycling you have to move to Europe as that’s where the biggest races are. So that was always the goal. Of course it was hard to leave Tassie the first time, I was a pretty young man to be honest then to move to Italy. As much as I love Italy, it was a massive culture shock. Of course, you don’t have your family around and you’re on the opposite side of the world, but I think it was a good decision and it’s not something I regret. 14
Top & Left: Richie at the Santos Tour Down Under
You split your time between Tassie and Europe. Where are you based in each place? When I’m in Tassie, normally a month or so each year, I’m in Launceston. I grew up just outside of Launceston and my family are all pretty much still there. When I’m in Europe my home is in Monaco, it’s been that way for over 10 years. Monaco compared to Launceston is like chalk and cheese. Monaco is about 36,000 people in two square kilometres, obviously it’s got some of the most beautiful environment around it, it’s a scenic location but it’s the absolute opposite to Tassie. I can be outside the door in Launceston and 15 minutes later I’m away from all the cars and traffic lights. In Monaco any way I go there’s traffic lights. I laugh about this with my wife, when I grew up, I never dreamed that I would have to take an elevator and then go through two security doors to get out and ride my bike. It’s a bit weird coming from Tassie but you get used to it. What has been your career highlight, so far? Winning races like Paris-Nice, Tour de Suisse or Tour de Romandie. Outside of the Grand Tours are probably the biggest ones. Also, riding in three Tour de France winning teams was pretty special as well. Top: Richie took Tour de France winner Chris Froome to the top of Mt Wellington in 2014. Bottom: Richie taking out the Santos Tour Down Under in January 2020
You took out the Santos Tour Down Under earlier this year for the second time. How does the race sit, in terms of importance, on the international calendar? It’s the first World Tour race of the year and it’s only getting bigger and bigger. It’s a great way to start the season and being World Tour level, every rider wants to win. It’s a big motivation being from Australia and being able to race on home soil and have the support of the crowd. I think it’s one of the favourite races of everyone that goes there. It’s also one of the best organised races, and the crowds on Willunga Hill are just like racing in Europe at a Tour stage. It’s like an amphitheatre, the noise going up there is just incredible. How has Covid-19 changed things for you? Like everyone, Covid has changed everything. The Tour was scheduled to be finishing now, in July, and then hopefully I would have been going to the Tokyo Olympics. Now, the Tour is scheduled for late August. It’s turned everything upside down, but at the end of the day cycling is a game compared to life. You can’t really complain when you see the toll that Corona has taken on the world.
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Left: Richie competing at the Santos Tour Down Under stage 6 Bottom: At the post-race media call
Your second baby is due at the same time the Tour de France is scheduled. That’s going to mean a fairly hefty ‘push present’ for your wife Gemma isn’t it?! Normally it would have been a perfectly timed baby, I would have done the Tour and hopefully the Olympics, by which point the season is basically over. Now we find that the baby will be due right in the thick of the Tour. At the end of the day we had to make the decision that the team pay my salary and there aren’t going to be so many Tours de France left for me, I’m in the twilight of my career now. With my wife Gemma’s blessing, I’ll do the Tour de France, but it’s the hardest decision I’ve had to make as a professional athlete and as a father. It will be hard, but at the same time it’s a motivation to go to Tour and not just make the numbers up. I want to actually go there and race hard. Speaking of push presents, Gemma’s pretty easy about it to be honest. When our first child was born, all that I had to get as a push present was Speculoos, which you can’t get in Australia. It’s kind of like a sweet biscuit spread, a Belgian Vegemite, I guess. How do you juggle kids and career? I think having a son is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, but I’m not going to lie, it does make things harder. We’re basically up at 6:30 each morning with him, but you work around that. My wife is very supportive, and she does the lion’s share of the parenting to be honest. At the moment I’m away on a training camp for a couple of weeks. When you get home from a hard ride and just want to sit on the couch, well there’s none of that, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I think in a lot of ways it’s been a good thing to get off the couch and hang out with my son, Luca.
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When you’re competing, like in the Tour de France, what does a typical race day look like? How do you back it up day after day for three weeks? It’s full gas. The stages finish around 5pm for the French TV, and the thing with Tour is that every day there’s always some drama. The amount of press that’s there is incredible, it’s like a pressure cooker. You get off the bike, onto the bus where we have showers, and then we start the recovery process. That means eating bowls of rice and a bit of protein. Then you either travel by bus or car to get to the hotel, a car is normally quicker. We change hotel basically every night, then we have massages for an hour, see a physio. Like most teams we have a professional chef with us too which is nice. Our chef always cooks good food which makes it easier. Then you’re basically in bed by 10:30pm. In the last week of a Grand Tour you’re so tired that it’s hard to sleep, which is a funny one. You keep doing that all day, every day. It’s no different from any job, it’s what you get paid to do and it’s what I’ve done for nearly half my life, ride a bike. So it’s just that, 21 days in a row.
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Do you have any particular places you visit or things you love to do when you get back to Tassie? My parents still have a shack at Beaumaris but I never really get the chance to go back there. When I’m back in Tassie it’s normally at the start of returning to training, so I really just have to train and stay more around Launceston. I snuck down to Hobart with my wife four years ago to show her the sights. I think Hobart is one of the most beautiful cities around but I haven’t been down there in so long. I enjoy going up and swimming at Windmill Hill pool, I used to work there before I was a professional cyclist. It’s nice to just do the normal things. My son is only two but I can’t wait to show him a different lifestyle to the one that we’re leading right now. You’ve spent some time cycling up Mount Wellington, even taking Chris Froome to the top. Do you still hold the record? I never actually raced Chris Froome up Mount Wellington. When he came down to Tassie we did ride it, but we didn’t race. Cadel did it in the Tour of Tassie but that was well before I was racing a bike. Mount Wellington is a famous cycling climb and why shouldn’t it be? It’s comparable to any climb in the alps or Pyrenees, it’s a hard climb, especially towards the top where it’s quite brutal and very exposed. I think I might have the record still from Longley Pub, there used to be a time trial from the pub to the top, but now it’s all about Strava and I haven’t set a fast time on Strava. The saying is ‘if it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen’, but I think the Longley time trial would still have record of that. Where do you train in Tassie - do you have a secret hill punish track that we should know about? Pretty much most days I head out around a Scottsdale loop. We head out through Rocherlea, Lilydale and across to Scottsdale then back home. I do it with a fellow Tasmanian, Will Clarke, who also rides for Trek-Segafredo, and a few other guys. There are a couple of climbs on that where I know where to test myself 18
and see if I’m going well. That’s on a climb out of Lilydale called Grandfields, it’s a brutal 3.5km climb and it’s very steep, and also the Sideling which is about 6.5km and one of my favourite climbs around. When I’m back in Tassie I can tell how well I’m going based on the times I do on those two climbs. Obviously, Launceston doesn’t have a Mount Wellington which is unfortunate. We do have Poatina, but it’s not the greatest ride out there, though it is a super climb. While we hope retirement isn’t on the cards just yet, when you do retire, what do you hope to do? Hopefully I’ve got a couple more years left in the legs. I’m not really sure what I’ll do for work, hopefully a job that I really enjoy. I love professional cycling, but it is a stressful job at the best of times. It is a privilege to ride a bike for a living. I’ve got three brothers and my dad who were all tradesmen, so I realise that the financial side of things and the lifestyle we lead is a privileged position. My wife is from Manchester, UK, and I like it there as well so we’re not really sure where we’ll end up. I think from the point of view for kids, there’s no place better in the world to raise kids than Tassie. I’m not really sure, I’ve got a few more years before we cross that bridge, but it’s exciting also in some ways to look at retirement and having a lot less stress in my life. Any hot tips for young (and older!) cyclists? For kids, just enjoy it, try to keep it safe. For older cyclists, the same thing really. If it’s not your job, then just enjoy yourself and try and take in some of the scenery. It’s a hard sport but there’s so many beautiful things about it and I think that’s still one of the things for me that I enjoy, just to get out into the mountains and enjoy the scenes around, it makes every day an absolute joy. Watch Richie compete in the Tour de France on SBS from 29th August until 20th September.
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IS INTERSTATE MIGRATION THE KEY TO TASSIE’S COVID-19 RECOVERY? Words: Stephanie Williams Image: Anton Balazh
Bums on aeroplane seats is one thing, but attracting a legion of people who will enhance life on the island will ensure long term prosperity. If this whole coronavirus thing has taught us one thing, it’s that the only thing certain in life is change. It’s also shown us how quickly businesses, governments and people can act when push comes to shove. Earlier this year would you have thought the majority of us would be working at home, implemented within a couple of weeks? Or that childcare would be free (albeit temporarily)? Or that Newstart payments could double overnight? With this fast paced change comes opportunity and Tassie is sitting in a prime position to capitalise on some aspects of the covid fallout. COVID-19 has held a mirror up to our lives and shown us what’s important and what not to take for granted family, friends, lifestyle, work and finances. Many people have realised they can work from anywhere and forward-thinking businesses are supporting their employees to do this longer term - none of us know when this might all be over or a second and consequent waves might hit. It begs the question - if you could live where you love, rather than live where you work, would you? For many mainlanders, Tassie will now be an option.
and tradespersons, all of whom can boost the human and social capital of regional communities. Perhaps not surprisingly, the RAI found regionally-based millennials were much more inclined than city-based millennials to move to more isolated or remote places in general. Many young families and professionals are evaluating how to “live their best life” and Tassie has got to be near the top of their list. Clean air? Tick. Good schools? Tick. Affordable real estate? Tick (if you’re from the big city). More incredible outdoors than you can ever imagine? Tick, tick, tick! Tasmania is perceived as clean, green and virus-free, at a time when people are evaluating what is important in their lives. Tasmania’s ageing population is putting pressure on the health system. Sorry boomers. So there’s a need to attract younger residents in the prime of their working lives, to reset the demographic balance and line the coffers. The first step is wooing them down here for holidays, make it easy for them to get an accurate feel of what Tassie is about (not just a Pollyanna, tourist take) and support them in making the decision to relocate. Supporting innovative ways of attracting new Tasmanians is the next step in the process. Source: Australian Demographic Statistics, ABS CAT NO 3101.0: TABLES 2, 16A, 16B 1
Migration is a key pillar of economic growth and something that Tassie has traditionally struggled with. There’s a population drain once kids leave school and, in the past, were never to be seen again. This is slowly changing with more Tassie boomerangs returning to the island with their partners and kids. But when you look at net migration figures, it tells a different story. In September 20181 net interstate migration was 538 people and gradually declined over the year until September 2019, when it was down to 138. When you consider a person may pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax over their lifetime, we need more people in the early to mid stages of their careers to boost our economic growth. Covid-19 has put a dampener on internationals moving here for now, but there’s an opportunity to attract people who will contribute to Tasmania’s long term growth, in particular millenials young families. According to the Regional Australia Institute millennials (20-35-year-olds) are of particular value, as they represent families as well as early-to-mid career professionals 20
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WHEN SCIENCE AND ART COLLIDE Interview: Stephanie Williams With so many festivals not going ahead right now, Dr Margo Adler from Beaker Street shares how they’re filling the festival void. What is Sci Art Walks and how does it work? Sci Art Walks is a new project by Beaker Street, which we’ve been working on since having to Corona-cancel our 2020 Beaker Street Festival. The project features fascinating talks by some of Tasmania’s most innovative and accomplished scientists and cultural figures, paired with iconic walking trails around the state. Woven through each episode is music originally composed and performed by an incredible lineup of Tasmanian musicians. Sci Art Walks will be released as part of National Science Week this month, and people will be able to stream or download the episodes free, and from anywhere in the world. We hope the project will encourage people to get away from their screens and out exploring some of Tassie’s beautiful natural environments. But even if you can’t make it to the suggested walking location, we think the episodes are best listened to while basking in the fresh air. Access Sci Art Walks via www.beakerstreet.com.au Where can people experience the walks? We have suggested walk locations all around the state - we’ve done our best to cover every corner of Tasmania. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to make a road trip out of it, including a few walk locations, and maybe visit somewhere new. Or perhaps you’ll rediscover your own backyard. And there’s also the photography prize... Entries for the competition are now closed but you can visit the exhibition of finalist photographs, on show at TMAG from 23 August - 13 September. While there, you can vote for your favourite photo to become the People’s Choice Winner. Why are science festivals like Beaker Street important? An understanding and appreciation of science is essential for an equitable, well functioning society. These days, the importance
of science is clearer than ever, with our hopes of eradicating Coronavirus and combating climate change (just to name a couple) pinned on the work of scientists. But sometimes scientists get put on a pedestal, and they can seem unapproachable or unrelatable. Beaker Street Festival aims to break down barriers between scientists and the public. What’s your favourite science fact? I just learned this from our Sci Art Walks episode featuring Dr Cathy Byrne, Tasmania’s resident moth expert: Moths have the best sense of smell of any animal on Earth, and they use this to find mates. Females “call” to males by releasing pheromones, and the males can pick those up from huge distances. In the silk moth, for example, the male can detect one molecule of pheromone released by a female from 10km away. So if a female silk moth in Hobart was looking for a partner, a male silk moth in Kingston could smell her pheromones and fly straight to her! Do you have a hidden Hobart science secret? Yes! The Evolve Spirits Bar at MACq 01 Hotel has the most incredible, underappreciated collection of fossils on display. They belong to an unnamed collector and are housed in all manner of museum cases, which serve as everything from huge displays (like the cave bear skeleton in the middle of the bar) to the tables you can sit your drinks on top of.
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Professor Barbara Holland Professor Gretta Pecl
Cataract Gorge, Launceston Wineglass Bay walk, Freycinet
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Cradle Mountain
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First Dog on the Moon David Walsh Andry Sculthorpe, Billy Payton Clark Dr Jennifer Lavers
Cockle Creek to South Cape walk GASP! track, Grenorchy Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
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Maths and Evolution Climate change and effects on east coast marine diversity Developing a vaccine for devil facial tumour disease Exploring Tasmania’s wild environments Risk Aboriginal fire practices
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Christine Milne, Bob Brown, Tabatha Bader, Todd Dudley Cathy Byrne and Simon Grove
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KEEPING BOATERS SAFE AND APPY Interview: Stephanie Williams
As a software developer and abalone diver, Steve Fraser’s two jobs have collided to produce a brand new app for boaties. You developed an app to keep recreational fishers safe. How did the idea come about? I’ve been a commercial abalone diver for about 20 years, and a software developer for 12 years. It’s an unusual combination, but early last year I launched a business called Offshore SMS that creates cloud-based safety management tools for commercial vessel owners. That business has been growing well and so this year I built an app called SafeBoatie with the aim of giving recreational boaters access to some of the same safety tools that our commercial customers have been using. Safeboatie is a free tool for recreational boaters to use. By putting in some basic information about the boat and where they use it, recreational boaters can know exactly which safety equipment is required for their vessel, keep track of what gear they already have, and save important dates for their boat (like safety equipment expiry dates, licence renewals and trailer regos). There is also a list of emergency plans to remind boaters what to do in case of an emergency (like a person overboard, fire, how to make a mayday call etc). Perhaps the most important thing the app does is allow the boater to do a 30 second safety check before they hit the water. The app will then send a text message to one of their nominated emergency contacts about where they have left from, who’s on board, and when they’re due back. Boating safety is something I’m passionate about and hopefully this app can help recreational boaters keep their boats and safety equipment up to date, and ultimately to be a little safer on the water. How did you create the app? Developing native apps is a complex process and there are many tools required to build for both iOS and Android. Fortunately I’ve been developing for web for some time and have been able to create the SafeBoatie and a new Offshore SMS app that I’m about to launch, on my own. I’m a believer in having 100% control over every line of code and have resisted the temptation to outsource the development in favour of knowing every aspect of the app inside out. That said, developing apps is an expensive process and the more that can be done in house, the lower the development costs can be kept. This is especially important when creating a free app. I’m still working on new features for theSafeBoatie app and will release more updates later in the year, like having the app notify a user’s emergency contacts when they don’t check back in by the agreed time, and perhaps a place to keep photos and details about the day’s catch!
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Any advice for people who have thought “I could make an app for that!”? Sure - just do it, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. For non-developers looking to build an app or test out a new idea, I would suggest finding a developer that you can work closely with and try to understand the app development process from start to finish. Focus on building a few key features to test the idea rather than a huge app that does everything. Simple is better, and will cost a lot less. These days the lines between native apps and mobile websites are becoming a lot more blurry and quite often a web app is a faster, more affordable option to quickly scale up and test a new idea. Where’s your favourite place to fish? Ha! I don’t get on the water nearly as often as I would like, but I love Tasmania’s South Coast. It’s a spectacular part of the world and one of the most wild and remote places I’ve found. How can people access the app? SafeBoatie is available for FREE on both the Apple App Store for iPhones and the Google Play Store for Android phones, and can be found by searching for “Safe Boatie”. The app was only launched a few weeks ago in beta, and feedback is much appreciated to help make the app more useful for Tasmanian recreational boaters.
Steve with boater Ian Melrose at Swan Jetty.
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DESIGNING FOR DEMENTIA: KORONGEE DEMENTIA VILLAGE OPENS IN GLENORCHY Interview: Stephanie Williams
Hobart architect Stephen Geason of Cykel Architecture was engaged by international firm ThomsonAdsett to collaborate on the new Korongee Dementia Village, as the local architect on the ground here. He shares insight into designing spaces for people living with dementia and how good design decisions can enhance their lives. What design decisions have you made that are unique to Korongee Village? The architectural language within the village has been informed by connecting the past to the future, and to the community. The concept of the village reinterprets the Australian suburban cul-de-sac and the civic village. The architectural typology of the buildings are informed by the local vernacular of the civic village and the residential home. The form of the village/community buildings clearly delineates between home and civic becoming recognisable for the resident. Korongee is based on the small house model of care and consists of four cul-de-sacs - each has three homes and each home has eight bedrooms. The civic space consists of a community centre, café, grocer, hair salon and wellness centre. To create a sense of neighbourhood and home, a series of social filters has been overlaid. This starts with the intimate privacy of the bedroom progressively moving to the domestic of the shared co-housing social space into the semi public of the veranda where residents can sit and observe the theatre of the neighbourhood and determine their level of engagement. It concludes with the active engagement of the civic cul-de-sac and the village. The homes are a familiar in form, are single story with pitched roofs, verandas and front fence. Which principles did you apply? Within the design phase, the ThomsonAdsett design team reviewed and implemented the ten Dementia Enabling Environment Principles from the work of Professor Richard Fleming and Kirsty Bennett. How has colour played a role? A rich colour palette inspired by the colours of Mt Wellington/ kunanyi was developed. Each cluster has its own unique landscape with a coloured brick planter box with a distinct tree at the entry, the colour then penetrates deep into the cluster. Once in the cluster, the entry sequence to each home has its own unique colour and the warmth of hydro wood clad porches. This is one of the wayfinding overlays applied to assist the resident to identify their own cul-de-sac and home. This is one of numerous dementia enabling design principles embedded in the village.
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Image: Adam Gibson
What can new residents and family expect from the new village? Korongee is a purpose-built facility intended to facilitate authentic living for people living with dementia. The village is intended to be familiar, safe and encourage independence. Not a stair or handle rail to be found. This is said to be a first for Australia - why do you think Hobart has been a pioneer in this? The credit for the inception to realisation of Korongee as a village for people living with dementia sits with visionary CEO Lucy O’Flaherty, Glenview Community Care, their board and team, and in particular Glenview’s Project Manager Donna Lashma. What does the name Korongee mean? We know the Butler family owned the land in 1890, built the homestead and named it Korongee. Some speculate Emma Butler named the property in memory of Mt Korong where she grew up. I have also been told “Korongee” is an Aboriginal word for canoe. Has this been an area of interest for you and your practice prior to Korongee Village? As myself as an architect, and a value shared with ThomsonAdsett, I place a strong emphasis on utilising design sensibility and architectural skills to contribute and assist those in need to gain a more inclusive quality of life via a sensible and considered design approach to the built environment. I have been interested and working in the design for dementia space and the senior living sector for over a decade. ThomsonAdsett is celebrating 50 years of working in these sectors. My interest was sparked when working with now-Emeritus professor Andrew Robinson in 2004. Andrew is the cofounder of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre established in 2008 and has been a great support and wealth of knowledge for myself and my practice. In 2015, I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Scotland and Northern Europe to conduct meaningful research into dementia-friendly environments within residential care. The fellowship was truly a life changing experience has allowed me to establish national and international working relationships in the design for dementia space.
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Have you forgotten how to have fun? Words: Annia Baron
How long has it been since you had a seriously good time? The sort that left your cheeks flushed and your heart full? You probably had to think about that for a moment. Sadly, we’ve been led to believe that play, pleasure and fun is something we do after all the work done - as though it’s a reward we earn. Worse, we’re enslaved by an idea that play and fun aren’t part of successful, responsible adulting. I’m sorry, but who on Earth made this the norm? And why are we still hanging on to this maladaptive belief? Science confirms that play, pleasure, and fun – whether using our bodies, our imagination, movement, objects, on our own or with others – is integral for our emotional wellbeing. Dr Stuart Brown (founder of the National Institute of Play) reminds us that adults are designed to engage in life-long play. He even proposes that depression, anxiety, and irritability are all symptoms of a lack of play. When we experience pleasure, brain cells in the ventral tegmental area activate. These are the same areas of the brain that ‘come alive’ when we engage in sex, exercise, and altruistic behaviours – all important for humans to survive and thrive. So what’s happened? Why do so many of us avoid prioritising pleasure, fun or play as part of our day? And if we do, why do so many of us feel guilty about it? Perhaps it’s the way our parents vocalised their opinions on work ethic. Perhaps it’s the 12 or so years we spend in traditional schooling structures that ingrain a subconscious fear of being judged negatively if we’re not keeping up with our peers. Perhaps it’s the constant pressure we feel to grind away, compare our successes, and hope that our lives are as glamorised as those shown in the media. It’s no wonder we’re overwhelmed and overworked. For years, we’ve been primed to de-prioritise play, pleasure, and fun. But it’s not about ditching our responsibilities and opting for total hedonism at every opportunity, it’s about loosening up old, worn-out beliefs that fun-seeking is immature or less important, and redirecting some of our precious energy to things and experiences that truly enliven us, fulfill us, and expand our sense of interconnectedness. Because when we do the things that make us feel joyful and unencumbered, we’re likely to be more patient, generous, and productive. When we feel good, we’re more likely to give ourselves permission to dream, set meaningful goals, and put energy into what makes us our most vibrant, loving, and successful selves. Whilst you may have absorbed some unhealthy views about play, 28
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pleasure, and fun in the past, it’s up to you to change the power they have over you. Practice more adaptive self-talk. Prune away unnecessary guilt. Give yourself permission to experience play, pleasure, and fun, on purpose, more often. After all that we’ve been through this year, we deserve nothing less.
A playful, scientific tool for empowering yourself over unhelpful thoughts: 1. Identify the thoughts you tend to hear yourself say, e.g., “I’m not good enough. I always leave things to the last minute. I’m such a loser.” 2. Bring to your mind the voice or accent of a recognisable character, cartoon or person e.g., Donald Duck, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Trump. 3. Have your ‘character’ say your unhelpful thoughts back to you, e.g., if it’s Trump, imagine him standing at a press conference, with his fake hair and squinting eyes. 4. By changing the context of the words, you assign a new emotion to the experience. It gives our mind a ‘break’ from the normal, automatic pattern, and helps create a new, more playful one.
Annia Baron is a Clinical Psychologist and Mindset Coach at Remind Yourself in Hobart. @anniabaron www.remindyourself.com
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SPICE UP YOUR WINTER COOKING Words: Sarah Ugazio Making the most of abundant seasonal produce has never been more timely (excuse the pun). While 53% of us are cooking more often, we’re also shopping less frequently with a budget conscious and ‘shop local’ mindset (May 2020 Survey, Eat Well Tasmania). Buying in season is not only cheaper, it generally ensures optimal freshness (and thus nutrition), support for local producers, with an added bonus of helping our little planet by virtue of low food miles. However, by this last winter month, inspiration may feel a little lacking in the kitchen. A high rotation of root vegetables can rapidly curb creativity. There is a limit to how much one can ponder pumpkin, potatoes and parsnips. While considering the carrots and cauliflower chilling in your fridge, you may have found your cooking playbook exhausted with no new moves up your sleeve. Fear not. Your cupboards are likely already filled with endless possibilities to pack some punch into routine recipes. Let me re-introduce you to your trusty, often neglected, humble herb and spice rack. Surprisingly they’re not just there to keep your salt and pepper company; and can be worth every penny of the kitchen real estate they occupy. Dried 30
herbs and spices often only see the light of day when the odd recipe calls for an exacting amount, or are used sparingly on their own, lest an over zealous sprinkle overpower and ruin a dish. However, dry rubbed on meats, sprinkled over vegetables, infused in cooking oils and mixed through butters, blended seasonings have the power to easily transform dishes into culinary journeys with complex layers of flavour. With international travel currently banned, consider coriander seed, ginger and galangal to take us to Thailand; a Ras-el-Hanout blend to North Africa; and rosemary, oregano and basil undoubtedly transport our tastebuds to Italy. Have some confidence to create your own. Mixing your own blends enables flavour adjustment and balance according to your palate, while also avoiding additives regularly included in commercial blends. Think outside the jar and consider anything that’s dry, or can be dried,such as toasted citrus peel, nuts or seeds – even seaweed. Pantry perfect to make ahead - simply blend, taste test, and store in a tightly sealed jar. Life after lockdown may have left us longing for a little excitement, a release from the rut of routine and variation to the ‘new normal’. Now is the time to inject some inspiration into the everyday, so why not spice it up? Follow Sarah on Insta @madamesaisons
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FEATURE
TAKE A VIRTUAL TRIP TO YE OLDE HOBART Interview: Stephanie Williams
Images: Virtual Hobart Town 2020 What are some of the highlights? You can stand on the footpath where Hunter Street meets Davey Street, which in the 1820s was a causeway, and see how much the waterfront has changed. There are bullock carts on the causeway bringing goods to and from ships waiting in the harbour, you can look south to the Bond Store and Commissariat Complex (now the TMAG buildings) or north to Macquarie Point. Or you can stand on board a whaling ship anchored in the harbour, preparing to sail off on the next adventure - you’ll see the tools and resources needed to outfit such a major undertaking, which provided much wealth to colonial Hobart.
We’re surrounded by history in Hobart and now you can take a virtual trip through time to plant yourself in the 1820’s. The brains behind the app is John Stephenson of Digital Heritage Studio. Tell us about the Virtual Hobart Town app? Virtual Hobart Town is a digital platform for exploring the capital of Van Diemen’s Land during the colonial era. Extensive research has been undertaken of historic maps, building plans and images to build an accurate 3D recreation. It can be experienced as a physical walking tour, where a user is guided to each location by their phone’s GPS, or view each scene in a remote mode from home. The app uses virtual reality to immerse a user into the digital reconstruction of historic Hobart, where they can look around in any direction and click on information points to learn more about historic buildings, characters and newspaper clippings from the time. There are nine different scenes that look at different themes and events from our colonial past, some of these include convictism (including female convicts), free settlers, merchants and whaling.
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At this stage the project concentrates on the year 1828. Why is that? 1828 has been chosen as there’s considerable archival resources that allow an accurate recreation to be made, and contains several buildings that still stand today such as part of the TMAG complex, the old Court House and what we know today as the Drunken Admiral. 1828 represents an important year in Tasmania’s history - it was 25 years since the first European settlement on the Derwent, the year the Cascades Female Factory opened and the year that Governor Arthur declared Martial Law. There were many active characters in Hobart Town at the time who would go on to leave quite a legacy for us through built structures, written records or stories about their ideals such as Governor Arthur, John Lee Archer, George Augustus Robinson and Isaac Solomon just to name a few. What was your motivation to create the experience? We’re so lucky that so much of our colonial architecture remains. We also have an amazing collection of archival records which are perhaps more significant. I feel that it’s an amazing privilege to be able to work with these records. We have a unique opportunity in Tasmania to combine these archival records with our built heritage, and advances in digital technology allow us to do this in ways that were previously unimaginable. Recently digitised convict records from Archives Tasmania describe each
the immersive experience, created local sound company Very Serious Media. Just as extensive historic research has gone into the recreations of buildings and characters, an accurate soundscape was created to match each scene, going as far as to check that the birds that we can hear are endemic species to the area.
convict in great detail, down to their eye colour and tattoos. We can now recreate each convict in digital form, and place them in the model of Hobart. Not only does the 3D model of colonial Hobart show the original coastline and buildings, but the model is populated with historic characters, recreating scenes recorded in convict records or newspaper articles. Who created it? The digital 3D model was transformed into the interactive phone app by Lithodomos VR, a Melbourne based company that has created similar products to interpret ancient sites in Europe and the Middle East. They are arguably the world leaders in this field. Each 360 degree scene has a soundscape to help
How long did it take to create? The app is part of the broader Virtual Hobart Town project, which has been in development for over five years. It took about nine months to develop the actual app - initial ideas and scouting for locations, updates to the 3D model, and then developing and testing the app on various devices. The app was ready for launch in March, unfortunately at the time when COVID-19 took off, which has had an obvious effect on tourism. Delaying the launch was considered, but COVID has also offered opportunities, for instance, the project has experienced an increase in online interest from interstate and overseas, from people who are still very much interested in experiencing our history, but cannot come and visit in person at this time. Where can readers download it? The Virtual Hobart Town app is available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play, just search for “Virtual Hobart Town�. You can keep up to date with the project on the Virtual Hobart Town facebook page; www.facebook.com/ VirtualHobartTown
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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS AT THE DERWENT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Words: Stephanie Williams Image: Oculus
The pieces of the puzzle that is the development of the Derwent Entertainment Centre (DEC) are beginning to fall into place.
Point into a family friendly entertainment, recreation and retail precinct. That’s exactly what we wanted to see happen on the site.”
The National Basketball League finalised its agreement with the Tasmanian Government in early July to issue a licence to participate in the 2021/2022 NBL Season. The Glenorchy City Council has agreed to sell the DEC to the Tasmanian Government (contracts being signed any day now!) and plans are being firmed up behind the scenes to design and build the new look centre. As part of the NBL deal, the Tasmanian Government is providing $68.5 million for the upgrade of the Derwent Entertainment Centre, including $20 million for a community four court multisport facility. Melbourne’s LK Group, led by the NBL owner Larry Kestelman, are working with architecture firm Fender Katsilidis, who designed Mona, and Ireneinc Planning to create the precinct design.
Hobart has a big opportunity to create a new precinct that’s loved, used and a place of pride for all Tasmanians, pretty important seeing as taxpayers money is being spent here. For a $68m government investment, it needs to hit the bullseye and we’ve got to get something more out of it than two hours a week of gametime. It has the potential to be a vibrant hub of activity, surrounded by the likes of Mona, the GASP! track, and the future Hobart Showgrounds development potential.
Glenorchy mayor Kristie Johnston is in the box seat when it comes to benefiting from this development. “Council and community have been working for almost over a decade now to look at Wilkinsons Point. It’s prime real estate. We’ve had a master plan over the site for some time, but LK Group came along and really did present a way of actually achieving that master plan across the entire site and offering a lot to our community,” she said. “LK Group presented an opportunity to have that upgrade, so it becomes a significantly better facility for the state, but also to develop the remainder of Wilkinsons 34
“The bay is very visible when you’re coming into Hobart so to make sure that’s book-ended really well between the development of Mona is important. We have a $1.3 billion pipeline of private investment that’s happening in our city at the moment, whether it be at the showgrounds, Wilkinsons Point, Mona, Windemere Bay, Saint Virgil’s High School,” Kristie said. “Importantly we need to see those different developments connected because it’s all about curating that visitor experience and resident experience.” Those in planning and design roles need to look further afield to similar place design projects such as the Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter development in Sydney. Once billed as the future of Australian entertainment hubs, Fox Studios has had the tumbleweed running through it at times. On game and event
days the place is jumping and the retailers are rejoicing, but for much of the week it has traditionally been a dead zone. And that’s with a large surrounding population to draw upon. In 2014 a consortium owned by businessmen Gerry Harvey, John Singleton and Mark Carnegie, paid $80 million for a 30-year lease over the site. Late last year they announced a $1.5b plan to revamp the valuable inner city site with a pedestrian mall modelled on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, a 20-storey office hub for creative industries, a 10-storey hotel, playgrounds and exercise areas. No doubt the DEC development team will be watching that progression with intense interest. Out of the box thinking needs to be fostered at the DEC to create the kind of space that is utilised daily, not just on game day. In recent years twice-weekly markets, playgrounds and cafe lunch specials have helped create extra vibrancy at Fox Studios, and light rail transport to and from the centre has contributed too. Public amenity is important, to create reasons for being there outside game day - given taxpayer funds are wrapped up in this, we need to ensure that everyone gets to use the space, not just for ticketed events. The last piece of the puzzle is jobs. “We’re talking around a $200 million investment in this, but that comes along with some jobs that we desperately need in our community, particularly now post-COVID,” Kristie said. “The economic impact assessment has shown there could be 1200 jobs created.”
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WHY DO CITY LIGHTS AND STARS TWINKLE? Words: Stephanie Williams
Have you ever wondered why city lights sparkle in the distance? Or why the stars pulse in the night sky? If it’s a clear dark night, you can see thousands of stars that look like they’re pulsating and changing in their brightness. You might be surprised to know that most stars actually shine with a steady light - it’s other factors that cause the sparkle on the way to our eyes. When you look up, you’re not looking into blank space - you’re looking into the atmosphere. It’s the movement of air (or turbulence) in the atmosphere of Earth that causes the starlight to go a little rogue. Hot and cold air gets in the way and bounces the light around as it travels from the star in the distance through the atmosphere and down to us on the ground. Some of that light reaches us directly and some of it gets bent along the way. Because of that bendiness, our eyes perceive it as twinkling. Stars that are closer to the horizon appear to twinkle more than other stars higher in the night sky - there’s a lot more atmosphere between you and a star that’s high up. Large astronomical objects closer to Earth, like the moon and other planets, don’t seem to twinkle because there’s not as much atmosphere between us and them. 36
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Twinkling, or scintillation, also plays a role in predicting the weather, with twinkling illustrating how winds are moving. On really rough nights in the atmosphere, stars can appear to even jump around, which is a frustration for astronomers. Astronomers try to overcome the twinkling by using adaptive optics, in which many small mirrors on the scope adjust constantly to allow for the atmospheric disturbances. The pros can also use telescopes orbiting Earth above the atmosphere to avoid the problems caused by turbulence. City lights work on the same theory. The city lights are distorted by twinklifying gasses depending on the temperature, atmospheric densities and moisture (like rain or humidity) in the area. Some city lights don’t twinkle at all in places that have very low atmospheric disturbances and other cities are known for their pretty sparkling lights. Hobart tends to put in a good showing. So next time you’re out at night look up and see if you can predict what’s happening in the atmosphere.
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to her practice, she operated free clinics in conjunction with missions in low income areas of Melbourne. She campaigned for improved education for girls and women’s suffrage - because at this point women still couldn’t vote. She also founded the Victorian Medical Women’s Society, which convened its earliest meetings in her house. It was there that Constance, Clara and eleven other women doctors developed a new dream: a hospital for women, run by women.
DID YOU KNOW AUSTRALIA’S FIRST FEMALE DOCTOR WAS HOBARTIAN? Words: Bonnie Liston Image: Delwyn Freestone, National Library of Australia Tasmania, despite its small size and population in comparison to the mainland, has produced more than its proportionally predicted percentage of significant figures and heroes of Australian history. The first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria and therefore practice medicine as the first fully licensed and fees paid up female doctor in Australia was born right here in Hobart Town. Emma Constance Stone, known to most as Constance, was born on the 4th of December 1856 to her parents William and Betsy Stone. She was the eldest of six children and had four brothers and a single younger sister, Grace Clara Stone, who went by Clara - it seems possible the family had a fundamental misunderstanding of how middle names worked or perhaps kept filling out birth certificates backwards. Their mother was a former governess so both Constance and Clara received a thorough education despite staying at home. When Constance was sixteen the family relocated to Melbourne and it was there she met a young Welsh clergyman by the name of David Egryn Jones. Jones confessed to Constance that he had been thinking about retraining as a medical doctor - the adverse conditions and poverty in his parish had him more concerned for the care of his clergy’s bodies than their souls. Constance told him she’d like to become a doctor too. It’s difficult to express what an audacious ambition this was for a woman of her time. It was only within her lifetime - the 38
year 1879 to be exact - that the University of Melbourne had begun to admit female students at all and the school of medicine was still strictly out of bounds for women. In order to achieve her dream Constance had to leave Australia and her family behind and travel to America, to the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and then to Canada, to University of Trinity College, Toronto. In 1888 she graduated MD CM with first class honours. For reasons best known to himself, David Egryn Jones also went to America and Canada to receive his medical training despite the fact that he could have very easily been accepted at UniMelb. The two eventually married in 1893, having known each other for over 10 years and across three continents - a very interesting love story and another example of Constance’s idiosyncratic attitudes for a woman of her time. After a brief stint working at the New Hospital for Women in London, Constance returned to Australia in 1890 and became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria. However she wasn’t alone for long. In her absence, her sister Clara, inspired by Constance’s example, had successfully petitioned her way into the University of Melbourne’s medical school and in 1891 became one of the first women to graduate from the university in medicine. The two sisters opened a private practice together. Constance proved herself to be a socially minded and progressive figure in Melbourne medical society. In addition
Unsupported by the establishment, the women had to scrape, scheme and make do - originally called the Victoria Hospital, one particularly ingenious marketing scheme tied them to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee and solicited a shilling’s donation in the name of the Queen from ‘every woman in Victoria.’ This raised over £3,000 and in 1899 the Queen Victoria Hospital proudly opened in its own building - boasting eight inpatient beds, an operating theatre and Melbourne’s first ante-natal clinic. Just in time for Constance to give birth to her first and only child, Constance Bronwen, who kept family tradition alive - going exclusively by Bronwen and growing up to be a doctor herself. Over time the Queen Victoria Hospital was relocated, amalgamated and swallowed up by the growing medical infrastructure of the rapidly developing Melbourne. The land where it stood is now the Queen Victoria Village or simply QV, a busy shopping precinct in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Nestled within there, between the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre and the Dan Murphy’s sits Constance Stone Lane, a small tribute to the groundbreaking woman and her work. Constance Stone tragically contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of only 45. She did so much in those 45 years it is haunting to think how much more she may have achieved had her life not been cut short. Her legacy remains strong - in the boundaries she broke, the lives she saved, the women she inspired to enter medicine and institutions she established to ensure those women would have her support long after her life was through.
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