The Pakana Voice THIS BOOK IS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS AND THE POWER OF THE PRESS TO SWAY OPINION. The main narrative voice is that of W.C., a somewhat hapless war correspondent, posted to Tasmania to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of Lutruwita and the British, in the years 1814 to 1856. In old age, comforted by malt and his scruffy dog Bent W.C. looks back and shares his press clippings of graphic accounts of...