Brand Tas

"It was a big shock coming to Australia, especially at 15. You leave all your friends behind and you don’t know a word of English. And in 1972, Australia was still very anti-migrant. We didn’t have the cultural diversity that we have now."

"People come to Tasmania for scientific reasons, even if they don’t use that word. They want to see an Aurora, or do the Overland Track and see all these incredible species. Those are all scientific reasons."

"The turbines are like part of the furniture now... but I do take a bit of time, especially on a nice day, to look out across it and think, ‘Yeah, we’ve done something good.'"

"Ally and I both claim that we missed the meeting where we decided to make a business out of it, but at some point, one of us said 'maybe there’s something in this…'"

"Killiecrankie is my home, and I see the trees, the earth, the water, as part of me when I was born. I call it my heartland."