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  2. Thumbnail for Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    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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    Why is southeast Asia so concerned about AUKUS?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1168-why-is-southeast-asia-so-concerned-about-aukus
    20 Sep 2021: The announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the US and UK (AUKUS) has caught many by surprise. Besides France, which reacted with fury over Australia’s scrapping of a major submarine deal with a French company, few countries
  5. Thumbnail for White continent, white blokes: shedding Antarctica's exclusionary past

    White continent, white blokes: shedding Antarctica's exclusionary …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1113-white-continent-white-blokes-shedding-antarcticas-exclusionary-past
    11 Feb 2021: This article was originally published in The Conversation as White continent, white blokes: why Antarctic research needs to shed its exclusionary past. The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820,
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    Why kids should not have lots of toys at Christmas

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1192-why-kids-should-not-have-lots-of-toys-at-christmas
    20 Dec 2021: The festive season reinforces something parents and carers already know – many children today have a lot of toys. In the United States, children receive more than US$6,500 (A$9,073) worth of toys between the ages of two and 12. Here in Australia,
  7. Thumbnail for If you’re planning to hike this winter, invest in the right gear

    If you’re planning to hike this winter, invest in the right gear

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1139-if-youre-planning-to-hike-this-winter-invest-in-the-right-gear
    1 Jun 2021: Two years ago, emergency workers rescued a hiker in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. He had spent nine days in his tent in freezing weather with dangerous blizzards, trying to keep dry from infiltrating snow and rain. Because he was an
  8. Thumbnail for Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

    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
  9. Thumbnail for Digital polish for Tasmania's ancient gems

    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
  10. Thumbnail for Understanding colonial maps

    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,
  11. Thumbnail for Could your ancestors' lives make a great historical novel?

    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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