Andrew Darby

Andrew Darby

Andrew Darby is the Hobart correspondent for Fairfax Media. His focus is on Australia's interests south of 40 Degrees South - Tasmania, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. He is the author of the internationally published Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling

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Killing dingoes for doing what comes naturally is poor policy

Andrew Darby A dingo bites a child and the response is to kill the dingo.

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A little bit of our own space

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Andrew Darby As I woke and peered out of the window, a cloudy dawn meant this moment would live in imagination, rather than reality.

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Bridge over troubled indigenous waters

Andrew Darby Somehow it comes as no surprise this Australia Day that a struggle over Aboriginal heritage involves crossing the Jordan River.

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Labor in Tasmania on a road to nowhere

Andrew Darby Until recently the Tarkine didn't even exist. In a Tasmanian terra nullius, governments refused to use a word to remember the local Aboriginal people in a wilderness with Australia's largest...

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