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    Pioneers reclaimed

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/653-pioneers-reclaimed
    28 Jun 2018: When a Melbourne retiree started the online Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania she had no inkling that her own connection to the island state would be revealed. The author with her first book. Former teacher Janeen O’Connell had
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    The lawyer land warrior

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/580-the-lawyer-land-warrior
    3 Jun 2018: When a handful of volunteers gathered in 2001 no one could have envisaged the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's extraordinary trajectory. Jane Hutchinson was one of the original core group that met in a Hobart cafe. A practicing lawyer at the time, she
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    Hodgman rides Tasmanians’ disdain for minority government

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/547-hodgman-rides-tasmanians-disdain-for-minority-government
    4 Mar 2018: The Tasmanian election result was an emphatic win for Will Hodgman, but he lost a fair bit of skin along the way. In an era of single-term governments and growing electoral volatility in Australia, the return of Will Hodgman’s Liberal government at
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    A Tasmanian Requiem

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/586-a-tasmanian-requiem
    24 Apr 2018: On December 26, 1847, a small group of Aboriginal people sat in the Lieutenant-Governor’s box at Hobart’s Theatre Royal watching a new pantomime. A local newspaper reported how “the natives … seemed gratified at their first public
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    How Councils help with affordable housing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/626-how-councils-help-with-affordable-housing
    5 Jun 2018: Tasmania is in the grip of a rental housing affordability crisis. What do local governments do to help?Rural areas in particular lack rental options. To find housing, older people living in rural areas may often face a heartbreaking decision to
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    Reviving an original Tasmanian language

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/671-reviving-an-original-tasmanian-language
    19 Jul 2018: Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, believed to have been the last Aboriginal person to have survived the Tasmanian genocide. Her demise symbolised the devastating impacts of British
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    Meet the remarkable machines that learn from humans

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/766-meet-the-remarkable-machines-that-learn-from-humans
    27 Aug 2018: Most AI systems depend solely on data analysis, which limits how smart and agile they are. But Tasmanian researchers have enabled computers to learn rapidly from human decision-making, and the impact is being felt around the world. Across the globe,
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    How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/560-how-picture-boards-were-used-as-propaganda-in-the-vandemonian-war
    14 Mar 2018: As Hobart’s Old Government House was being demolished in the late 1850s, workers made a remarkable discovery. Lifting the floor, they found an old pine board covered with four rows of pictures. Six scenes painted in oils depicted interactions
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    Combatting one of the most overlooked sources of global pollution

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/770-combatting-one-of-the-most-overlooked-sources-of-global-pollution
    3 Sep 2018: One container ship can emit almost the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars, and yet, shipping emissions are often overlooked. Here’s how researchers plan on curbing this serious source of global pollution. Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen
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    How Tasmanian researchers saved Australia’s newsprint industry

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/767-how-tasmanian-researchers-saved-australias-newsprint-industry
    31 Aug 2018: Things have been far from smooth sailing for the Boyer paper mill in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley since it pulped, squeezed, and rolled out Australia’s first sheet of newsprint back in 1941. While the mill still supplies most newspapers around the

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