Politics
The land of nepotism
David Obendorf
The greatest revelation in reopening of these old mysteries is to put them into context. There is ‘a way’ in Tasmania and mainlanders that move here quickly realise that nepotism and cronyism is rife. People who rock the establishment boat are warned, threatened, relegated and sometimes disappear. That’s how Tasmania has done business since colonial times … it is this island’s model of governance and non-transparency.