TAGGED: Tasmania
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This ballet, based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, was commissioned by the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Opera House and composed by Elena Kats-Chernin.

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This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart.

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Three lighthouse keepers and their families are the only residents on remote and windswept Maatsuyker Island, off the south-west coast of Tasmania.

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In February 2014, Tasmania played host to Australia's second only dragon boating marathon race.

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Environmentalists put Tasmania on the world's Christmas map by lighting up what is believed to be the world's tallest Christmas tree in the Styx Valley.

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On her birthday, we share images of Merle Oberon from the NFSA's Taussig Film Stills Collection. Publicity for the Hollywood star always claimed she was born in Tasmania but a different story emerged after her death.

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Narrator Rachel Perkins recounts Truganini’s concerns about her burial and the resting place of her body after her death.

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This clip is set after Truganini and George Robinson have moved the remaining population of Indigenous Tasmanians to Flinders Island.

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It is 1830 and European settlement has begun in Tasmania.

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In a montage of footage from 1970s feminist films, interlaced by narration and music, the clip proposes the notion of a new sisterhood. Summary by Adrienne Parr.