Born Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

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