Politics

The terminally and habitually incompetent

About 230 years ago, James Boswell recorded Dr Johnson’s “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” in his volume 2 of...

Recherche Bay: the watershed clash

While the Gunns 20 lawsuit draws increasing levels of cheese out of the Greens, a watershed clash between tourism and forestry is...

Llewellyn’s X-ray vision

Excusing the commissars’ mates … and all about Leonard!

In May 1977, the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria organised and sponsored a guided group-tour of parts – carefully selected – of...

The Gunns writ

Greg Barns is a great public controversialist. We need more like him. The pity is that Greg sees red when he hears...

The party is over?

The traditional political party is dying. Can it reinvent itself in a way that matches transformations of society, technology, and personal identity?...

THE PULP MILL: Read for yourself

All the details of the Gunns’ pulp mill plan … The site is located on the banks of the River Tamar and...

The bid for Recherche Bay

A MASSIVE $5 million offer to buy the Recherche Bay historic site has been rejected by the owners, Simon Bevilacqua writes in...

Christmas hangover

Paradise Regained?

Writing in The Guardian (Jan 1), Penny Green finds Nicholas Shakespeare’s investigation into settlers In Tasmania produces an interesting result … Penny...