Greg Cure was educated in the Classics at the University of Tasmania. He was a senior strategic manager for many years in the Australian government. He was awarded an Australia Day Award (Australian Government division). He is an author, social critic, poet and freelance management consultant. He has spent a good portion of the past decade working as a teacher of both English and Business in China. He is the author of “Where did all the good times go” an examination of the 1960’s R&B musical revolution in the UK and this work has also been translated into Chinese. He has contributed articles to magazines in China. His recent E book Tasmanian Wake is a fond reminiscence of a Tasmania long gone. In his early years he worked in the mining industry on the West Coast of Tasmania as well as spending several years as a builder’s labourer. His hometown is Strahan and his maternal grandfather was a Huon Piner
This is not a book about Tasmanian food or wine, art galleries or vineyards nor renovation of colonial houses. Rather if you want to read about:
The princess, the empress and the pink palace
Resistance fighters such as Tarerenorerer and Umarrah
Bodgies and widgies
Knick knocking & jiving
Star boarders, nointers night cartmen and the ‘boots”
State school rats versus convent dogs.
Marsden’s and McKay’s Bakery
The Pulp, the Titian, the Smelters
Captain Shiggles and Coosie Wooker
Savoury mince and Wobba’s creaming soda
Jungle Jim, British Bulldog, Queenie, French cricket, or brandings
Forgotten places like Guilford Junction, Linda, Crotty, Powranna or Horton college
Mussett or Crib huts
or a general deep dive into the last half of the twentieth century in Tasmania -part autobiography, part history and part tall tales this might be the book for you.
