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Peter Henning

Peter Henning is a Tasmanian historian who lived in the Tamar Valley in Tasmania during the pulp mill controversy.

He has written a number of books about Tasmanians and Tasmanian history, including:
- Doomed Battalion: Mateship and Leadership in War and Captivity: The Australian 2/40 Battalion 1940-45; (1995, revised 2^nd edition 2014)
- Veils and Tin Hats, a history of Tasmanian nurses during the Second World War (2013)
- No Chains to Rust: Bob McMahon: Memories of His Journey (2018)
- No Chains in the Sky: Alan Bowman Tasmanian War Pilot (2013)
He was a contributing writer to The Companion to Tasmanian History (University of Tasmania 2005) and The Australian Centenary History of Defence (Volume VI, 2001).

He has written extensively about Tasmanian and Australian politics and history on various online news sites, magazines and newspapers.

Articles written by Peter Henning (15)

13 February 2020 | Government failure has led to Australia becoming the new Easter Island
15 January 2020 | Morrison's Government has trashed its right to govern
9 January 2020 | In the name of Australia's future, the Morrison Government must go
23 November 2019 | The Americanisation of Australian political culture
10 May 2019 | Morrison: Oppressive nihilistic negativity
8 April 2019 | The Coalition's 'morally bankrupt' Budget
21 March 2019 | The rise of students against climate change
8 March 2019 | Passing the baton to a younger generation of governance
4 March 2019 | Howard and Abbott's abhorrent defence of Pell
25 February 2019 | The Coalition 'refreshes'
23 January 2019 | Scott Morrison's Australia Day farce
20 January 2019 | Australia's history with fascism
11 December 2018 | Will Shorten blow It?
8 March 2018 | How the Tasmanian vote was won
16 February 2018 | The power and the folly: Will Adani go down like Gunns?

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