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
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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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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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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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...
