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Amanda Ducker is associate editor at The Mercury newspaper in Hobart. A long-form features writer, columnist, and travel and books correspondent, she is a trusted voice with more than 30 years’ experience.

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Anna Cerneaz, Graeme Wood and Ange Boxall of Spring Bay Mill, Triabunna, Tasmania for TasWeekend Lead Arts story by Amanda Ducker Dec 2020. Pic one use only please.

Philanthropist part of the East Coast ‘renaissance’

Wotif founder and provocateur Graeme Wood has launched a long-awaited performance space at a defunct mill – and not without his fair share of trouble along the way, writes Amanda Ducker.

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Marta Dusseldorp co-stars in the threehander The Bleeding Tree now playing at Hobart's Theatre Royal. Pic Amy Brown

What’s Marta like in Hobart play?

It’s the moment fans have been waiting for, but how good is the new play that Marta Dusseldorp and her director hubby Ben Winspear are staging in Hobart?

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Alannah Hill in 2014. pic supplied in 2020

Can a really expensive handbag make you happy?

Find out what hilarious Tasmanian fashion designer Alannah Hill thinks about her crazily pricey purchase. WATCH MELBOURNE CUP FASHION FAILS VIDEO HERE>>

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Max DupainÕs famous image the Sunbaker has been recreated for the very first time by his son Rex Dupain.

I got that summertime sadness

Have you noticed how different it feels now when we get those really hot days? And have you thought about why that is?

OPINIONOpinion

A woman tries her luck on a pokie machine.

WARNING: Don’t get played like a poker machine again

I thought about one family earning $745 million and wondered how much of that represented losses of everyday Tasmanians on the pokies? I thought about the lockdown surge in online gambling. I thought about greyhounds eating racehorses again.

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HOLD FOR TASWEEKEND 7th NOVEMBER. Saroo Brierley's mother Sue Brierley is launching a memoir, Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy know as Lion. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

Lioness: The untold story of Sue Brierley

Through the film Lion, the world fell in the love with the story of Saroo Brierley, who found his birth family via Google Earth. Now it’s his Hobart mum’s turn to share her heart-rending story. WATCH THE VIDEO >>

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MERCURY USE ONLY. DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM KIRSTY EADE. TAS WEEKEND: Marta Dusseldorp speaks about the new play 'The Bleeding Tree". Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

HOT TICKET: Fans flock to box office to see Marta Dusseldorp

TASWEEKEND: The Theatre Royal has been forced to add shows to meet demand for a TV star’s controversial play, writes Amanda Ducker. WATCH THE TRAILER >>

OPINIONOpinion

Meg Ducker, mother of journalist Amanda Ducker, in the 1980s.

Hands off my mum

Does this woman belong in an aged-care home? I don’t think so, writes Amanda Ducker

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ESCAPE: Bay of Fires Walk - Tasmania. Picture: Tourism Australia

Why ‘eco-tourism’ makes me want to puke

Throwaway terms like ‘sustainable’ and ‘eco-tourism’ are greenwashing the cold hard facts – we need to change the way we travel, writes Amanda Ducker.

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Tony Abbott eating an onion during a visit to Charlton Farm Produce at Moriarty.

Tony Abbott was wrong to chomp a raw onion but right about one thing

What would a pungent bulb-eating mansplainer know about living well?

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