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• Environment

  Out of control

  Richard Flanagan The Monthly article in full: The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests This story begins with a Tasmanian man fern ( Dicksonia...

• Politics

  Flanagan’s ‘brilliant’ Terrorist

  Michiko Kakutania New York Times Although the basic outlines of this story come from Heinrich Böll’s novel The Lost Honour of Katharina...

• Environment

  Gunns: Out of Control

  Tasmanian Times has been inundated with requests to republish Richard Flanagan’s eviscerating essay Paradise Razed, published two weeks ago in the UK...

• Politics

  The art of darkness

  Stephen Moss The Guardian “I’m sorry about that,” says Flanagan when I mention my post-book depression. “I wanted to make a mirror...

• Environment

  Take it back

  Richard Flanagan Federal Liberal and Federal Labor make a great error — even given the money they receive from Gunns — in...

• Article

  Why I wrote The Unknown Terrorist

  Richard Flanagan And then I realised that what was happening to me was but a very small example of what was happening...

• Politics

  Port Arthur and the loss of innocence

  Premier Paul Lennon was almost universally condemned last week following his call for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre and killer Martin Bryant...

• Politics

  Pain, rejection, confusion

  Bob Hawkins I was a proud Australian, aware of the value of, and respect afforded, my citizenship. Today, I still love my...

• Politics

  Exposing the TEC

  Polly Watch Congratulations to the Tasmanian Times writer of this article, 100 days and The Emperor, for giving a full history of...

• National

  100 days and The Emperor

  Tasmanian Times On the second anniversary of the article that sparked one of the more remarkable controversies in recent Tasmanian political history,...