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With a new Council soon to be elected, we have emailed all candidates the four questions - about how they see our future and the role we can all play in shaping it. 

The feedback will be published here.

This year has been about turning ideas into action while building the foundations for what comes next. The Tasmanian Government’s three-year investment, is an investment in our Islands - our people, ideas and future - creating opportunities, strengthening local capacity and helping more good ideas find their way into action.

We signed the lease! 💜

3 Bowman Street, Whitemark is officially the new home of The Collective.

We have a guiding plan. We have the Islander Way Framework and The Collective Roadmap in progress. And now we have a place where we can start bringing more of it to life.

We can’t wait to welcome you into The Collective. 💜

A corner shop in Lady Barron can be more than a place to buy bread and an Icy Pole.

It can be the post office, the newsagency, the petrol pump, the unofficial counselling room, and the spot where kids get their first job and their first taste of being trusted.

Three months on Flinders Island was meant to be a quick posting.

Nearly 60 years later, Peter Sheriff is still here — and he’s lived enough working lives for a whole town.

Postmaster on the manual phone exchange. Farmer through collapsing wool markets and soaring interest rates. Builder. Cartage operator. Concrete bridge maker. Council Warden. Shipping advocate. Fire brigade captain during the 2003 bushfires.

A huge 115kg of items were saved from landfill at Saturday’s Repair Fair at the Flinders Arts and Entertainment Centre! It was a brilliant couple of hours of fixing, sharing skills, learning from each other and giving everyday items another chance — with a Repair Fair sausage or two along the way, of course. 🌭

And we’re doing it again! The next Repair Fair is planned for November at the Whitemark Showgrounds, alongside the Garage Sale Trail and Too Good to Tip.