The governments’ contempt

Pete Hay A speech given at the launch of Environment Tasmania, Launceston, 2 December, 2006 And then there’s the electorate, the great...

Live a life of poetry

Pete Hay Launch, Blue Giraffe 4 That, I agree, is a somewhat startling claim. Here’s what I mean by it. We who...

The toxic public sphere

Pete Hay Preposterous, is it not? Well, consider. We have here a government and a pale-shadow opposition that take as the constituency...

Pete Hay: trashing the big lie

Carousing as poetic inspiration

THIS launch of Pete Hay’s wonderful new book of poetry, Silently on the Tide, will be in three parts: • A Memory:...

Daniel’s Turbo Tassie

IN February 2005, the Australian Financial Review published a letter to the editor from Daniel Leesong, CEO of the Tourism Council of...