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10 April 2025 Bloodlines of Van Diemen’s Land: A Convict’s Legacy Hey, I’m Jarrod, a descendant of 17 convicts, a Royal Marine, and a mixed bag of free settlers who either got shipped off or jumped ship straight into Van Diemen’s...Read more

17 April 2025 The First Tasmanians: Life Before Colonisation When people think about Australia’s early days, they usually picture convicts on ships and settlers struggling in a harsh land. But long before that chaos, Tasmania’s Indigenous people, the Palawa, had...Read more

22 April 2025 Roots of Belonging: The Story of Kikatapula (Part 1) Culture is the first thing we ever know. It’s the ground under our feet, the language in our mouth, the invisible net that catches us when we fall....Read more

2 May 2025 Warrior Between Worlds: The Tragedy of Kikatapula (Part 2) Leaving your culture once is hard. Trying to live between two cultures? Almost impossible. Because no matter how far you run, part of you always knows: if you...Read more

7 May 2025 The Brutal Journey: How Close We Came to Never Existing Let’s be real, the voyage from England to Australia wasn’t some romantic sea adventure. It was brutal, ugly, and dangerous for pretty much everyone, whether they were...Read more