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Rawson


Jane Rawson moved to ‘unspoiled’ Tasmania to outrun climate change, but the fearful questions followed

Jane Rawson moved to ‘unspoiled’ Tasmania to outrun climate change, but the fearful questions followed

Leavening this downbeat mood is Rawson’s enduring sense of wonder and her humour, epitomised in her relations with the families of quolls and pademelons that cohabit her property in their unruly “wild” way, along with the snakes, the fairy wrens, and the microbats that shit in the walls.