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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · May 29

Master wig maker Rachel Walker spends up to 450 hours making a single wig for medical hair loss. I wrote about her work for ABC.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

'I saw me come back': Wigmaker's passion restores clients' identities

From her Tasmanian studio, this master wigmaker creates hair pieces for clients with medical hair loss, using donations from throughout Australia and New Zealand.

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Apr 16

My latest article for ABC is about the theft of two statues created in recognition of thousands of children sent to orphan schools in Tasmania.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Parts of bronze orphan statues recovered after theft

A sculptor hopes two bronze statues depicting orphan children can be rebuilt after being stolen from New Town in Hobart.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · Apr 13

Nice interview by @luciecutting.bsky.social on ABC Hobart with Tasmanian Steve Pearce of The Trees Project about a trip to Taiwan to photograph Taiwan's tallest tree.
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Tasmanian Steve Pearce photographs Taiwan's 'laden' with life tallest tree - ABC listen

Photographer and filmmaker Steve Pearce of The Trees Project has just returned from documenting Taiwan's newly discovered tallest tree, a conifer 'laden' with orchids and ferns that is over 84 metres ...

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Tasmanian Land Conservancy @tasland.bsky.social · Mar 19

This gorgeous video was shared by our new #LandforWildlife members, Laurie Goldsworthy & Kristina Nicklason at Western Creek. Our Dr Dave Hamilton believes this is likely a litter of #easternquolls playing together. Eastern quolls can have up to 6 in a litter, so their #mum has done brilliantly!

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Mar 15

Long live regional festivals lovingly put together by locals. ECHO Festival was a delight.

Poster that reads 'Wonderful Women Working With Wood'

Outdoor festivals showing people sitting on a chaise lounge

Outdoor festival showing crowd standing in circle

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Caleb Nichols-Mansell @calebnicholsmansell.com.au · Mar 15

Celebrated the opening of my latest commission ‘this is my land, this is my sea’ as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival program last night. This work stands as a luminous testament to the enduring bond between the Palawa and our ancestral lands and waters.

#publicart #mobsky #art #neon

A group of people walk along the boardwalk towards my neon sign that reads ‘this is my land, this is my sea’ at sunset in Burnie.

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Mar 11

I love all of these!

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Mar 11

My latest article for ABC Hobart is about tattoo removalists who offer free or discounted tattoo removal to people who face barriers to access and associate their unwanted tattoo with trauma.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Face tattoo removal offers new start after years of regret

Almost all of Adam's tattoos are "backyard jobs" done at home or in prison. A collaboration between a not-for-profit and tattoo removalist is giving him a chance to move forward without them.

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Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania @insectsoftasmania.bsky.social · Mar 10

It's so exciting to add our own images of the endemic #Tasmanian leaf #beetle Ewanius nothofagi to our website. It's the only leaf beetle in Tasmania that feeds on Myrtle. Identification thanks to Martin Lagerway. Mount Field National Park, January.

Side view of a small honey brown coloured beetle on a reddish leaf blade.

Top view of the honey-brown, oval beetle pointing down the image. The pronotum (thorax) is purely honey brown. The elytra (wing covers) have a base colour of honey brown but a three lines of black and two cream in the top half, two upside down Vs of balck in the middle, and a band of cream at the wing tip. It is on a browning leaf (I think it was Pandani).

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Mar 2

Approximately 10,000 - 8,000 years ago, a vast plain connected lutruwita/Tasmania to mainland Australia. It's informally known as Bassian Plain and was larger than Tasmania.

I wrote about it on the back of a new doco exploring that history.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Under Bass Strait's surface lies a vast land humans once called home

The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania to mainland Australia.

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Feb 27

A new #Tassie tale by me, a small ceramic fragment found on Bruny sparks conversation online about centuries-old finds.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

'Little face' ceramic fragment found on island sparks online debate

When Amanda Richardson stumbled upon a seemingly old pottery fragment near a walking track on Bruny Island in Tasmania, its history caused huge speculation online.

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Lucie Cutting @luciecutting.bsky.social · Feb 22

My latest article delves into #auspol #politas history, exploring Tassie's late adoption of Hansard. Unlike other states, Tassie relied on brief newspaper reports of parliamentary proceedings until the 1970s. Thanks to former premier Doug Lowe for his recollections.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

'Stupid' idea turned into 'something good' for Tassie parliament

Tasmania relied on newspaper cuttings to record parliamentary debate right up to the 1970s, but introducing an expensive Hansard transcription was initially dismissed as "stupid".

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