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
Taking stock on a conflicted whaling season
Andrew Darby As Japan's most tumultuous Antarctic whaling season yet draws to a close, it seems everybody dodged, if not a harpoon, then a bullet.
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Pontville Chronicles - where do the children stay?
Andrew Darby Be careful what you wish for. In the case of Tasmanians who have set out to help asylum seekers, it's perhaps the most challenging group possible: lone boys.
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Bushfire tweets rival traditional warnings
Andrew Darby Tweets by ordinary Tasmanians provided some of the best graphic early warnings. So what does that mean for emergency warning systems?
Britain stamps its boot on Antarctica while Australia sits on its hands
Andrew Darby It might be funny if it wasn't serious. Britain has stamped oversize boots on Antarctica, to the fury of others.
The sea among us
Andrew Darby The sea came for Port Arthur in a midwinter high tide, with a south-south-easterly storm pushing waves up the cove and an intense low above.
Shark fin's murky soup
Andrew Darby Yesterday it was the ruling Chinese State Council. Today it's Singapore's Environment Ministry. Others will follow tomorrow.
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Epic fail on forest talks
Andrew Darby All parties have failed in Tasmania's forest conflict.
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The milk of China's financial kindness
Andrew Darby Memory lane. It always has more twists and turns than we might think. Take the latest Australian investment cherry to be tasted by China.
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MONA's most fascinating exhibit - its owner
Andrew Darby Of all the surprises that inhabit the Museum of Old and New Art, perhaps the most unexpected and fascinating is turning out to be the owner himself.
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The coming of the drones, for good
Andrew Darby Whoever said eternal vigilance is the price of liberty clearly didn't foresee drones.
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Let's pop the helium balloon before we let it go
Andrew Darby Excuse me for being a killjoy, but it's time to have a hard look at letting go of the party balloon.
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The cost of travel
Andrew Darby Heaven knows how young women build good, strong lives in today's struggle between image and reality.
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Sorry what was that? Our imperfect political record
Andrew Darby The luckiest political journalist in Australia seems to be Inaudible. Their questions are more frequently asked of the Prime Minister than just about anyone.
Pragmatic Milne to usher in new era
Andrew Darby IN A carefully handwritten statement addressed to the ''Ladies and Gentlemen of the press'', Christine Milne launched her first tilt at elected office 23 years ago.
The forgotten conflict
Andrew Darby There is a hole in our remembrance, and it is Black. We justly remember our dead in wars overseas.
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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
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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Where climate and conservation collide
Andrew Darby If ever a case signalled the end of easy answers to our search for clean energy, it's that of the wedgie.
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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.
