Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PBThis book has been awarded the 2026 Kay Daniels Award (sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority) and shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. In the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand

Masaaki Koyama (sushi chef)

exploitation and settlement around Tasmania’s Far North-East Coast

leading him in 1897 to remote and isolated Queenstown

is full of anecdotes which reflect the huge range of skills and life experiences which accumulate during a forestry career

Part 2 | Terry Mulhern

boy heaven was a clubhouse for your gang

her sense of humour is wry and sometimes mischievous

we ought to recognise that their establishment meant that traditional Aboriginal lifestyles ceased

1983: The Franklin River Dam Blockade has invited protesters to Tasmania's remote west coast

Geoff became a regular visitor

Carol Freeman’s evocative telling of the story of the Ragged School

illustrated in most cases with an extraordinary range of historical photographs