Issues No.7 April 2003


Poker-faced Jim
A question for the Premier ...

Peter Joyce strikes again
The mysterious PETER JOYCE waxes lyrical ...

Stephen Edgar remembers Gwen Harwood
Remember me ... STEPHEN EDGAR's wonderful account of his friendship with poet Gwen Harwood....

Dive, Dive, Dive
LOUISE NORTH puts a toe in the water of a slice of paradise... in the second of tasmaniantimes.com's new wanderlust section, OUT THERE, BABY tales of travel ...

Hairy times in the chamber
HANSARD and Mr Green ...

I love Cambodia
LARA SAUNDERS is the first storyteller in tasmaniantimes.com's new section, OUT THERE, BABY, tales of travel... You got a tale? Send it in!

Reynolds v Windschuttle
MARGARETTA POS observes a brutal debate between historians Henry Reynolds and Keith Windschuttle

Poetry, glorious poetry
ANNE KELLAS ponders war in Iraq

Gerard Castles tells Monty
And, so it goes on ... into a future, perfect. GERARD CASTLES takes issue with Monty ...

Monty tells the truth
It appears HAG - seeing flying pink elephants - has stuffed up. She is mortally sorry and has re-entered rehab. MONTY tells it as it is...

What Hag wrote - under the banner headline: Monty tell me it isn't true...
HAG hears another senior sceptic has joined Labor's massive army of adviser/spinners... And Big Brother is watching you...

Sausage meet
TAYLOR BILDSTEIN watches from the sidelines as the Republic Bar in Hobart hosts the great sausage meat debate... and, what ARCHIE ROACH had to say...

The Poet-President
MARGARETTA POS listens to East Timor's inspirational leader, Xanana Gusmao...

Who is Peter Joyce?
So, who the hell is PETER JOYCE????

Future Perfect cops a blast
Future Perfect and its supporters cop a lashing from a Hilary Bray-style anonymous critic ... should THE HAG run it ...

For the record....
PEG PUTT and BOB BROWN speak for anti-war Tasmanians, and Australians ...

Hag goes to the Ball
Hag discovers three new Governor candidates whilst lurching around the Media Ball

Waging war crimes?
The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled ‘coalition of the willing’ would be a fundamental violation of international law.

Tasmania Together, Jim Bacon and Benchmarks
It's always fascinating to observe how we dress ourselves up for others. LINDSAY TUFFIN

Flanagan meets the Handbag Lady
Writer Richard Flanagan's 30-minute audience with Her Maj. THE HAG

Poems Against War
Prime Minister John Howard hears the dissenting voice of Australia's poets, including several from Tasmania

A response to Henry
RICHARD FLANAGAN responds to comments by Professor Henry Reynolds inferring an ambush of the Pacific Region Literary Prize.

Dear Heather Rose
10 Days' festival artistic adviser ROBYN ARCHER's letter to dissenting writers/artists' spokesperson Heather Rose, April 21, 2002.

A history of poison
A trawl through the history of the 10 Days on the Island furore, with extracts from that fine organ of public record, THE MERCURY

Henry, it's nonsense
So, did artists deliberately ambush the Pacific Region Literary Prize as suggested by prize chairman Henry Reynolds? HEATHER ROSE has the answer...

Granite chips
The island state has become an international literary cause celebre as Peter Carey pulls stumps. LINDSAY TUFFIN

The drip on granite
Pesky greens, recalcitrant writers ... more annoying splashes in the corridors of power. LINDSAY TUFFIN

The terrible price
The cost of hatred, the cost of war... ALAN NICHOLLS ... and Rwanda
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