I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania…

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just…

— Graham Kerr

“Hobart. Many of the crew have friends waiting and know this place. But not me. This is a new place. “You will love it,”…

— Favel Parrett

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too.…

— Max Walker

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

— James Cook

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

— Richard Flanagan

The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South…

— Will Hughes

“Towns like Launceston, Longford, Evandale and other current-day hubs of poppy production in north and central Tasmania had been settled by tens of thousands…

— Anonymous

There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he…

— Ben Quilty

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for…

— Bob Brown

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the…

— Richard Flanagan

The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream,…

— Richard Flanagan

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been…

— Robert Plant

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

— Angus Young

I tell my friends that 'you don't know how lucky you are to be in Tasmania, because when you go away internationally, you get…

— Saroo Brierley

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

— Richard Flanagan