1991-In the foothills of Tasmania’s Mount Wellington a Vietnam veteran, Joe Gilewicz is shot dead by a special police group. Their version is simple: he shot at us, we shot back. A ballistics... More > cop enters the killing zone and plants evidence to shore up the official police line…but he can’t go on with it. He confesses and expects prison.The dead man is a comrade in arms. Born in a Nazi concentration camp, Stan Hanuszewicz is a two-tour Vietnam Vet. The dead soldier’s parents, holocaust survivors too. They met behind the wire in a death camp.'I cannot watch when they pull my fingernails out,' she tells the author.'Swim from Gestapo' her friend calls as they make a bid for freedom in icy waters near the camp. ‘Disquiet’ is an unedited compilation of formal court statements and recorded family anecdote. Today Joe’s death is recorded as ‘justifiable homicide’. Disquiet is self-published on Lulu for the record.< Less
In 1945, Tasmanian academic, teacher and philanthropist, A.L.Meston wrote a paper entitled 'The Halfcastes of the Furneaux Group'. Meston documented the union between aborigines and white sealers and... More > whalers and others of those islands in Bass Strait that issued from those relationships of the 19th century. The producer of this small booklet based essentially on Meston's paper with some pictorial elaboration, feels that present-day Tasmanian aboriginal activism has a decided reference to this academic study.< Less
High quality photos, taken by the author come together with little dramatic rhymes to thrill his grandkids, as young as 10 months. How does the crow go? Aaaark...aark...
Lucille Butterworth has been one of australia's most enduring missing persons since her disappearance from a Hobart bus-stop in 1969. In December 2011 the author of this publication reveals an... More > interview with a man who allegedly buried her. His compelling confession also names the man who allegedly murdered Lucille. He confesses to the author in December 2011...the same alleged confession to Tasmanian police in 1986.Why was he not believed? Why is the public still asking...what happened to Lucille Butterworth? This is an interim publication only. Real names and places are either fictionalised or coded out, but this does not detract from the details of a man's confession, which should bring an end to the 42-year-old mystery, or at least give answers to the public. Why was he not believed when he confessed in 1986? A full new edition will be made available once the author has cleared the way for legal publication. In the meantime, time is running out. This interim publication will suffice for now.< Less
This volume is the prequel to the author's first book on the killing of Joe Gilewicz, by Tasmanian police in the winter of 1991. Tapp wrote of the killing, described by noted serial Commission of... More > Inquiry barrister, John Agius QC, as 'forensic journalism'. The book 'Disquiet, the Justifiable homicide of an Australian Vietnam veteran was central to a Commission of Inquiry. This book 'Build-up to a Disquiet' gives an account of what motivated the author to disbelieve police and write the book, his commitment to the memory of Veterans who fall in war defending notional democracy and his struggle to maintain that commitment. Essentially it is a record of an event that remains saturated in Disquiet.< Less
Burra is a boy of long-ago land, who reckons his boomerang is a toy. But he doesn't understand the law of his land. Don't make friends with animals. A little lonely Bunyip lad stays invisible to... More > watch the play...until Grampa B bellows his head off and sends the tribe into panic. While the tribe pack up, Burra makes his own way and comes face to face with the dreaded foe. Essentially a happy-ending non-scary story of the ancient Aussie outback.< Less
