Just Tassie Books

The second volume in Norm Beechey and Dorothy Baker's history of Dover and Port Esperance, covering the later years from 1875 to 1925. This volume picks up where Volume 1 left off — documenting the development of the district through the sawmilling era, apple growing and the challenges of codlin moth, the trade union movement in the timber industry, the extension of the electric telegraph, the local steamers Ivy, Reliance and Dover that connected the community to Hobart, WWI soldiers, Spanish flu, whaling, and the eucalyptus oil distillation industry.

J.S. Weeding's history of the lower Midlands district of Tasmania — the region south of Campbell Town encompassing Oatlands, Tunbridge, Antill Ponds, Jericho, Interlaken, Parattah, Mount Seymour, Lake Tiberias, Rhyndaston, Stonor, Tunnack, Woodsdale, Andover, Levendale, Stonehenge and Swanston. The lower Midlands is convict-era country — the road south from Campbell Town passes through landscapes shaped by assigned convict labour, pastoral runs, coaching inns and probation stations.

When Dame Enid Lyons became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1943, she and Senator Dorothy Tangney faced a problem nobody had thought to solve: there was no women's toilet anywhere near the parliamentary chambers. Eleri Harris's picture book tells the true story of Australia's first female parliamentarians — framed around this wonderfully absurd practical obstacle.