Greg Barns
Barrister and writer
Greg Barns is an Australian barrister, political commentator and WikiLeaks Party national campaign director. He is the author of several books, including “What’s wrong with the Liberal Party”.
As Australian sympathy and aid turn towards the victims of the latest Indonesian natural disaster in Yogyakarta, the Australian Parliament has before it a bill which will deny justice and humanity to the victims of a man-made disaster An earthquake is big, rapid, and can be captured by our media – we can whack a […]
A few weeks ago, in my regular column in the Hobart Mercury, I reflected on what the Cronulla riots said about Australia in 2005. With reference to the horror of the Tampa incident in 2001, the scandal of detention centres and the recent dismantling by the Howard government of the rights of workers and the […]
In August last year an 11-year-old school boy took his own life. The boy, who lived in a small Massachusetts community, was in fifth grade at the prestigious Andover School. The local newspaper, the Eagle-Tribune, published a story about the boy’s death but didn’t indicate how he died. That editorial decision led to a torrent […]
Today’s forestry package announcement by Prime Minister Howard and Premier Lennon is nothing short of brilliant. It will be opposed by Green extremists because they rely on forest conflict for political oxygen, but the vast majority of Tasmanians will see it as balanced and sustainable. My sources tell me that it was Lennon who was […]
This week WMC Resources announced it’s evaluating the potential of a nickel-copper prospect with inferred resources located some 165km south of Val d’Or in Canada. WMC is negotiating with small Canadian explorer, Matamec. One hopes that this Canadian adventure is more successful than WMC’s disastrous Nova Scotian deal almost two decades ago and which is […]
It’s time to return to matters of state – in this case, Macquarie Bank and its relationship with the Hydro and the Basslink project… At last week’s Estimates Committee hearing, questioning by the Liberal Party’s Will Hodgman and the Greens’ Nick McKim revealed just how embedded into the Hydro these days is the bank sometimes […]
