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Crescent Bay is home to a beach that would be rated in Australia’s top 10 (if anyone knew about it).

Remarkable landscape includes one of the best beaches no-one knows about

A hike in southern Tasmania takes in spectacular capes and a beach that should be in Australia’s top 10.

  • Jim Darby

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Ireland’s Dromoland Castle and its expansive grounds.

This stunning castle is the birthplace of an unlikely Irish rebel

Ireland’s Dromoland Castle - now a five-star heritage hotel - boasts a fascinating history and an intriguing connection to Tasmania’s Port Arthur.

  • Billy Cantwell
Newspaper clippings from the Port Arthur massacre focussing on the victims, not the perpetrator.

Port Arthur is still a stark reminder to change the script of mass killings

We denied the Port Arthur killer the infamy he sought. We gave it to the Christchurch killer. We shouldn’t. The evidence tells us there is more to our success in keeping mass shootings from these shores than gun numbers alone. We must not lose the lessons we have learned these last 25 years.

  • Glynn Greensmith
Page one of the Sydney Morning Herald on April 29, 1996.

From the Archives, 1996: The Port Arthur massacre

25 years ago, Martin Bryant shot and killed 35 people at a popular tourist site in Port Arthur, Tasmania.

  • Lindsay Simpson, Bronwen Hayes, Staff reporters and AAP
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Port Arthur, Tasmania.

As Port Arthur anniversary approaches, let us never speak his name

A quarter of a century ago, a man killed 35 people in Tasmania. We need to focus on the victims, not the perpetrator.

  • Andrew Leigh
Taika Waititi's Maori heritage would be just one factor working in favour of Jojo Rabbit.

Hitler, terrorism, Port Arthur: Should some subjects be off limits?

The court of public opinion has decreed a film about the Port Arthur shooter should not be made. But is that judgement right?

  • Karl Quinn
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Shaun Grant said he knew the film about Port Arthur killer Martin Bryant would be controversial.

Writer of Bryant film: 'Evil repeats itself if we don’t shine a light on it'

Shaun Grant said he knew the film would be controversial but his motivation was to consider why mass shootings happen and how gun control can prevent them.

  • Karl Quinn and Rachel Clun
Port Arthur killer Martin Bryant.

We don't need a film about mass murderer Martin Bryant

A movie about Port Arthur killer Martin Bryant is entirely irresponsible and should be stopped in its tracks.

  • Richard Keddie
American actor Caleb Landry Jones, seen here in Antiviral (2012), has been cast as the lead character in Nitram.

Snowtown director making movie about Port Arthur mass killer Martin Bryant

The troubled upbringing of Australia's worst serial killer is the subject of a new movie from director Justin Kurzel.

  • Karl Quinn
This dead albatross chick, found at Midway Atoll in the Pacific in 2009, is a reminder of the price nature pays for absorbing our rubbish.

How a long walk helped me understand our rubbish problem

48 walkers booked into cabins doesn't sound like the bushwalking I'm used to. But it may help save our national parks - if we can change our ways.

  • Julie Perrin

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