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*All recalctricants can take inspiration from history – and one historical symbol of intransigence are the Pipes of the 19th century. John West (once editor of the Launceston Examiner, then later the Sydney Morning Herald) in his History of Tasmania (1852) wrote: "The newspapers of this hemisphere were long mere vehicles of government intelligence, or expressions of the views and feelings of the ruling powers". He recorded how "Malice or humour, in the early days, expressed itself in what were called Pipes – a ditty, either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men were thus hitched into rhyme." Thus, "the fear of satire checked the haughtiness of power".

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