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    Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1124-tracing-the-lives-of-early-chinese-families-in-colonial-australia
    31 Mar 2021: I’m a historian, but I’m not my family’s historian. That honour falls to my mum, who for the past twenty years or so has been delving into the lives of my ancestors. Mum started doing the family history after I began studying Australian
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    Opening the archives of White Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1167-opening-the-archives-of-white-australia
    17 Sep 2021: The administration of the Immigration Restriction Act was a huge bureaucratic exercise, creating tens of thousands of records that today reveal personal histories of life under the White Australia Policy. Two recent online projects are opening up
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    Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1133-hidden-history-of-chinese-australian-women
    3 May 2021: Chinese Australian history is primarily told as a history of men. Population figures suggest why — in 1901, there were almost 30,000 Chinese men in Australia, yet fewer than 500 women. But despite their small numbers, emerging research reveals
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    Digital polish for Tasmania's ancient gems

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1111-digital-polish-for-tasmanias-ancient-gems
    16 Feb 2021: For a geoscientist, there could be few places more tantalising than Tasmania. Shaped by natural forces over billions of years; each rock, mountain, valley or stream offers scientists a unique window into the past. The state has a rich, almost
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    Understanding colonial maps

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1123-understanding-colonial-maps
    31 Mar 2021: On Boxing Day 1832 surveyors across southern Van Diemen’s Land were huddled in their tents, sheltering from the rain. Poor Charles Wedge set out to work but was ‘obliged to return’, while Raphael Clint made no pretence, recording in his log,
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    How films show the fear and loss that come with dementia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1125-how-films-show-the-fear-and-loss-that-come-with-dementia
    8 Apr 2021: Two new films explore the fear of forgetting, loss of control, and other complexities that accompany a dementia diagnosis. The Father and Supernova, both released this month, grapple with the challenges confronting people living with dementia and
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    Education: improving the way we support people living with dementia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1164-education-improving-the-way-we-support-people-living-with-dementia
    15 Sep 2021: Dementia not only impacts the person living with dementia but also those people who are involved in providing care and support to this person. Principles of Supportive Care for People with Dementia (CAD104) is a popular unit in the Diploma and
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    Help us change minds for those whose minds have changed.

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1169-help-us-change-minds-for-those-whose-minds-have-changed
    23 Sep 2021: Almost half a million Australians are now living with dementia. Three times that number are involved in their care. As medical advances enable us all to live longer, these figures are set to increase significantly. Like so many, Rowena Howard
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    Could your ancestors' lives make a great historical novel?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1185-could-your-ancestors-lives-make-a-great-historical-novel
    28 Nov 2021: There are two writing units in the Diploma of Family History that teach students about writing. Writing Family History focuses on individual stories while Writing the Family Saga helps students develop compelling multi-generational narratives.
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    The Tasmanian resistance fighter we should remember as a war hero

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1156-the-tasmanian-resistance-fighter-we-should-remember-as-a-war-hero
    9 Aug 2021: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. Australians love their war heroes. Our founding myth centres on the heroism of the ANZACs. Our Victoria Cross recipients are

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