This is for my late adoptive father, CW Clements, who only answered to "Bill". He lived and worked successively on the east and north-west coasts, where he was variously a shop assistant, fisherman, farm labourer and shop keeper at Burnie and then Somerset. Although he left Tasmania only for friendship and cardiac surgery, he was attuned to the international and national contexts of the state’s fortunes, in bad times and good. He is pictured in late infancy.