the Code of the Up-Country bush

Weirdos wanted

Local Government Association of Tasmania conference in Launceston was told “We need more weirdos”.

But what are weirdos? Just ordinary people like you and me. They are often simple folk that have become so frustrated and befuddled by mediocrity, that they can contain themselves no longer.

I say the bubble has burst. The dormant spirit of the Highlands and the Up-Country character that has been developing since the pioneer colonial days and that has been subdued by traditions in time, is back. 

The free settlers founded their spirit on accepted British tradition. A stagnant colourless mediocrity.

The true creators and developers of the Tasmanian Spirit of the High country along with the Code of the Mountain Bush, were the convicts and their descendants. They had no choice but to willingly grab the challenge of creating a new culture based on achievement from the demands of need. Any new change in our island State was based on their capable confronting and conquering of  desired discoveries.  Creative initiatives were tried and tested. Included if successful and discarded if not.

Opportunities were everywhere to try new things.  A new country with new people and new ideas. Only the wealthy worried.

The majority might well have all been called weirdos. They dared to be different because there became no established procedures. Freedom was a pleasure to be gained and appreciated and shared.  Colonial convicts and their familes established in the outer and upper country away from the wealthy land-owners. A frontier for new ideas was created for free thinkers. An evolved frontier for practical solutions and objective un-biased musings.

This was and is the basis of the character of the Tasmanian High Country. As this freedom is the Code of the Up-Country bush and by infusion the rest of Tasmania,  then flow on Future, we’re ready for you.