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Tasmania's brand-new Museum of Old and New Art occupies a privately owned peninsula, reachable by a dedicated high-speed catamaran service.

The Museum on the Bottom of the World Peter Neville-Hadley 2011

"It is England's beanpole bowlers versus Australia's pygmy slingers" opined Tasmania's Mercury newspaper on Tuesday, "and it's advantage England."

The Ashes 2010: England's beanpole bowlers deliver big advantage Mike Selvey in Hobart 2010

Pietersen has shown signs of his best form in Australia, although the return of his fallibility against slow left-armers against Australia A in Hobart, when Steven O'Keefe dismissed him with a straight ball, is disconcerting for England and might have played a part in Australia's decision to drop the off-spinner Nathan Hauritz in favour of Tasmania's uncapped left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty.

The Ashes 2010: Warne says England made Kevin Pietersen an outcast David Hopps in Brisbane 2010

Hauritz dropped in favour of Tasmania's Xavier Doherty

The Ashes 2010: Graeme Swann looks to Nathan Hauritz for guidance David Hopps in Brisbane 2010

There are brief, loving descriptions of Tasmania's natural life, a longtime interest of the author, who also writes about natural history.

David Owen's Pufferfish and other long-interrupted crime-fiction series Peter Rozovsky 2010

England's players arrived in Hobart yesterday for their final warm-up fixture before the first Test to find Ricky Ponting's assessment of their qualities in Tasmania's Sunday Examiner.

The England Ashes threat: Ricky Ponting's verdict David Hopps 2010

He opposes clear felling of old growth forests and the controversial Gunns 'pulp mill proposal in Tasmania's Tamar River, and supports putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions, possibly via a cap-and-trade carbon scheme.

Australian Elections: Key Players 2010

Tasmania's leading authority on thylacines, Eric Guiler, has died.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

He lives in Hobart, Tasmania's capital, where he runs a small business with his wife, Kate Burton.

Australian Elections: Key Players 2010

He's David Owen's Franz Heineken, known to some as Pufferfish, scourge of Tasmania's criminals and back in a new book after four of the more entertaining crime novels of the 1990s.

No Weather for a Burial: The Return of Pufferfish Peter Rozovsky 2010