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Greg Barns

Barns is a writer and a weekly columnist with the Hobart Mercury in Tasmania.

Two steps back...

[ politics | opinion - april 04 ]

Aborigines, who are less healthy and worse educated than Australia's white population, can now watch their health, education and welfare programmes being destroyed.

The seven-year itch

[ politics | opinion - february 04 ]

With Australia's recent record, why does Howard's government think they are suitable to chair the UN Human Rights Committee?

Nothing to shout about

[ politics - august 03 ]

To Tasmania's indigenous people, celebrating the island's bicentennary is akin to cheering the holocaust.