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 (28)

27 May 2022 | Australia rejects Trumpism in voting out Morrison Government
19 May 2022 | Morrison's hubris will be unchecked if Coalition prevail
18 February 2022 | Morrison's cruelty must come to an end
7 October 2021 | Under Morrison, Australia strives to be unincorporated territory of U.S.
26 September 2021 | Morrison's 'sub-par' performance tanks Australia's national identity
20 August 2021 | Scott Morrison is no supporter of great causes or freedom
15 January 2021 | While America holds Australia's leash, we are not 'one and free'
19 December 2020 | The Coalition's 'right to rule' mentality
13 November 2020 | Morrison’s Trumpist dilemma: A credible revisionist narrative is impossible
8 November 2020 | Senator Eric Abetz stirs controversy with racist questions to Chinese-Australians
23 October 2020 | A Trump victory would be a win for the Morrison Government
7 October 2020 | Don't expect due process in the U.S. Election
14 June 2020 | Trump and Morrison: A love affair imperiling Australia's future
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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Peter Henning

Articles written by Peter Henning (28)

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