Missing Brett Whiteley painting Waves V found during Launceston art gallery audit
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Waves V by Brett Whiteley was last seen in 1976.
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An ink drawing by a famed Australian artist has been re-discovered after almost 45 years, lost in a collection of over 1.5 million items in a northern Tasmanian museum.
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The work, Waves V, is estimated to be worth around $30,000
Another painting by Whiteley broke an Australian art action record last year
Launceston s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) found the Brett Whiteley artwork that was acquired in the 1970s.
The drawing called Waves V was purchased by the gallery in 1976 and was recorded in the museum s collections.
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Jack jumper ants send more people to hospital in Tasmania than in rest of Australia
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Marley, now 9, is not scared of playing in the grass anymore.
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Four-year-old Marley Dowde was playing cricket in her northern Tasmanian backyard in January 2016 when she was stung twice in quick succession by a jack jumper ant.
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Tasmanians were hospitalised at the highest rate for ant, tick and caterpillar stings in 2017-18
Experts blame this on the prevalence of jack jumper ants, a highly aggressive species, in Tasmania
The Jack Jumper Allergy Program helps desensitise people to jack jumper venom
Australia s ten biggest inland cities you should visit (or avoid)
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Outsiders could be forgiven for thinking that Australia s interior is entirely empty. All the big cities cling to the coast like a scared toddler to a blankie. What s more, most of the second tier cities are on the coast, too. Australia has got sizeable settlements outside the capitals, but the likes of Townsville, Newcastle, Wollongong, Geelong and Bunbury are also coastal.
There are a few biggish inland cities, though, and some of them offer plenty for visitors. We ve picked out the largest ten, using the latest estimated resident population stats from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The significant urban area measurement – the closest realistic approximation of what the city is – has been used.
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The Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery have formally apologised to Tasmania s Aboriginal community over the mistreatment and theft of cultural artefacts.
Monday s apology was part of the return of 14,000-year-old petroglyphs to their original site at Preminghana, in the state s north-west.
The petroglyph slabs were taken from Preminghana in the 1960s, and given to TMAG in Hobart and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Galley in Launceston.
The pieces that were taken to Hobart were displayed at the TMAG from 1967 until 2005. They have since been kept in storage.
The petroglyphs were removed in 1962 from Preminghana, and will be returned to the site in early March 2021.