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1 Train Driver's Story of Life on Tasmanian Railways, from Wrecks and Near-misses to Opera and Stunning Beauty Rick Eaves , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2023;
— Review of A Train Driver's Story Grant Youd , 2023 single work autobiography

'Some days were literally a train wreck. Most days though, driving a train in Tasmania seemed the best job in the world.'
1 Poets in Tasmania and Sweden, Who Have Never Met in Person, Use Online Chats to Co-write Poetry Book Rick Eaves , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2022;

'When Tasmanian poet Therese Corfiatis needs to get away, she only has to ask her Swedish friend, Britta Stenberg, for a screen-time tour of her snow-covered home.'  (Introduction) 
1 Tasmanian Indigenous Author Launches Debut Children's Book during NAIDOC Week Celebrations Rick Eaves , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2022;

'The Tasmanian Aboriginal author of a new children's book, luwa tara luwa waypa, says he has realised a dream of reaching people with the stories of his culture. ' 
1 Remembering Terrence Rigney, the WWII Tailor Who Walked the Kokoda Track with His Bagpipes Rick Eaves , 2021 single work biography
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2021; 'For many of us, bagpipes are a love or hate affair, but Burnie tailor Terrence Rigney loved his so much that he took them to war and along the Kokoda Track.' (Introduction)
1 Extraordinary Women of the Island Films about to Hit the Big Screen Rick Eaves , 2019 single work
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , March 2019;

'A humanitarian Master Mariner, a 14-year old who started her own business at 12 and a cowgirl who rode into the Mongolian high country — all Tasmanian women to be celebrated on screen during Ten Days on the Island.' (Article summary)
1 Returning to the Flanagan Family Home, the Roots of Man Booker Prize Winner Rick Eaves , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , February 2017;

'Arch and Helen Flanagan drove into Rosebery in January 1964 in a tiny Zephyr 6. It was one month after the Murchison Highway had reached the isolated west coast mining town.

Wedged between his parents on the bench seat was future Man Booker Prize winning novelist, Richard, then just two and a half.' (Introduction)
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