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

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.

Andrew Darby

Pontville Chronicles - where do the children stay?

Pontville

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.

Andrew Darby

Fish wars on the high seas

Greenpeace activists close in on the Margiris yesterday.

Andrew Darby When Michael Egan quit his job as New South Wales' longest-serving Treasurer in 2005, he declared a retiring ambition to learn to fish.

The forgotten conflict

Opponents will visit parliament today in protest of the proposals.

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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