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.
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.
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Fish wars on the high seas
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.
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Counting the cost of a piece of flake
Andrew Darby It's always hard to truly measure what happens out there, at sea. No more so than in the case of that fisherman's foe, the seal.
Digital life, political strife
Andrew Darby As a lengthening line of regretful politicians shows, if they're going to play the social media game they need to clearly understand the consequences.
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Braving the googlies to bring politics to the people
Andrew Darby Out here in the sticks, it's time to thank big city taxpayers for the travelling show that is the Rudd Government's community cabinet.
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Losing the plot as the forests keep falling
Andrew Darby Although only the grey-haired remember, there was a time when no one fought over trees in Tasmania.
