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Mike
Kerr

Mike Kerr is a Tasmanian writer and journalist, and occasional comedian and cartoonist. He has lived in the US and Australia, worked in both public and private media sectors, and now writes for multiple platforms including radio. In truth, though, he favours the stuff that’s on paper. He says, “I come from a school of thought that says newspapers, magazines and books are important. Reading is important, and people who read are important. There’s a covenant, a trust, between those who write and those who read. Of all interactions in media, I value that relationship above all others.”


Mike Kerr is a Tasmanian writer and journalist, and occasional comedian and cartoonist. He has lived in the US and Australia, worked in both public and private media sectors, and now writes for multiple platforms including radio. In truth, though, he favours the stuff that’s on paper. He says, “I come from a school of thought that says newspapers, magazines and books are important. Reading is important, and people who read are important. There’s a covenant, a trust, between those who write and those who read. Of all interactions in media, I value that relationship above all others.”


Tasmanian Voices

Past, prison and future

by Mike Kerr
01 Jul 2021

CROSSROADS: This column is about a Tasmania in transition: change wrought by new economic circumstance, by uneven demographic shifts, sea-changers and tree-changers, aging populations and the inevitable pull cityward, by the ever-growing circles of...

The Arts

Making art happen

by Mike Kerr
24 Jun 2021

He’s an inventor, metal fabricator, welder and building contractor. A seeker of opals, a quarryman on Flinders and a rider of motorcycles. John Parish is not, however, an artist – at least in his own estimation.

The Arts

Water tables

by Mike Kerr
02 Mar 2021

Simon Ancher already sees a set of very fine tables. He’s planned the quarter- and back-sawn cuts and envisaged how the grain will lie. In his mind’s eye, individual sections have been flipped to provide a cathedral effect, a reflection in the...

History

Tassie TV’s half century

by Mike Kerr
03 Sep 2020

It depends on which clock you’re looking at, but for Tasmanians television has now been around for half a century. It’s a long journey, as yet unfinished, and every step an argument about the worth of what we watch. But it is the technology of...

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