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IT’S PERFECTLY FITTING that a wild hare would find a home at The Burrows — not just because that’s where hares live. There are deeper reasons to do with memories of school holidays spent at nana’s beachside home on Stradbroke Island and a desire to recreate that comfortable feeling in Tasmania’s Swansea. A print of the famous , painted in 1502 by Albrecht Dürer, was handed down through grandmother to grandson, and now has pride of place in a renovated shack overlooking Great Oyster

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