It turns out you can live in South East Tasmania for well over a decade and have little to no idea about everyday life on the island s diagonally opposite corner. Up in the North West, people snack on something called savoury toast, refer to their ute as their bus, tawdry plough rhymes with the way they pronounce laundry trough. Down one particular road is this incredible waterfall, a welcoming old family-owned apiary, a haunting tiger tale and some curious car art. A small sign on the Bass Highway points south to Mawbanna. This is Tommeginne Country, the traditional homelands of one of the many nations of lutruwita/Tasmania – an island with a colonial history so brutal and so shameful that much has been swept under the rug of the state s collective consciousness. Mawbanna is the original name of a waterway, further east, now referred to by its English translation: Black River.
Study suggests the Tasmanian tiger survived into the 21st century
by James Fair on 4 February 2021
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, most likely went extinct in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and could still persist in the most remote parts of the island, according to new research that is still undergoing peer review.
More than 1,200 records of sightings and physical evidence from 1910 up to 2019 were collected and collated by scientists at the University of Tasmania and used to model where and when the thylacine is likely to have persisted.
This study challenges the accepted consensus that the thylacine went extinct in the decade or two after the last known individual died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.