GUY PARSONS:

Every one of us in Tasmania now bears a black eye.

Count all the set-ups in this brief and petty episode, count the outcomes of cynical, self-obsessed, egotistical and bloody bullish behaviour. And — if we are not too hardened and cynical and resigned ourselves —  well, weep. Mr Cheek’s portrayal of these events, we can expect, will open a new can of ugly, angry worms and new missions of recrimination.