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Our research has shown Indigenous peoples’ needs cannot be understood …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/our-research-has-shown-indigenous-peoples-needs-cannot-be-understood-and-met,-without-indigenous-voices

14 Feb 2023: Opponents of an Indigenous Voice to parliament say the Voice is merely symbolic and another pointless layer of bureaucracy. They say that what is needed are “practical measures”. However decades of government-led “practical measures” have
Honouring the extinct, one thylacine at a time

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/993-honouring-the-extinct-one-thylacine-at-a-time

27 Apr 2020: The thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) might be extinct, but at least 764 specimens still exist in museums and collections around the world. Through an exploration of the lives, deaths and afterlife as museum specimens of individual thylacines, a new
How does island life shape Tasmanians?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/782-how-does-island-life-shape-tasmanians

19 Oct 2018: While geographical disconnection has many obvious implications on daily life (for example the cost of fuel, access to certain services, ability to collaborate with peers, etc. ) the impact of 'place' is also a common theme running through many
Space probe JUICE in line of sight for Tassie telescopes

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/space-probe-juice-in-line-of-sight-for-tassie-telescopes

21 Sep 2023: Ten years of preparation led University of Tasmania space scientist Dr GuifrÃ Molera CalvÃs from the School of Natural Sciences to a career highlight. The researcher is among dozens of scientists across the world contributing to the European Space
What does trauma informed practice in Tasmanian schools mean?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/what-does-trauma-informed-practice-in-tasmanian-schools-mean

4 Oct 2022: Footage shared online of school-yard fights is concerning. However, in responding, it is imperative to reflect upon causes of such violence and apply preventative strategies rather than ‘getting tough’. For more than 50 years we have known that
Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for Sri Lankan political…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/shehan-karunatilaka-wins-booker-prize-for-sri-lankan-political-satire,-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida

19 Oct 2022: Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The win couldn’t come at a better time for Sri Lanka, a country once more engaged in political and economic instability,
This is the future of forensic science

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/799-this-is-the-future-of-forensic-science

7 Sep 2018: Since the first time fingerprint evidence was used to solve a gruesome double-murder more than a century ago, the DNA revolution has been the single greatest advance in forensic science. The technologies that underpin forensic techniques have become
Plan bee, C and D: more alternatives may have a role to play in…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/plan-bee,-c-and-d-more-alternatives-may-have-a-role-to-play-in-pollination-process

30 Mar 2023: While bumblebees are a feral species, they have proven to be effective pollinators that researchers are keen to learn more about. First discovered in a garden in the inner Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay in 1992, it is thought the bumblebee arrived from
From architect to historian

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22 Jun 2016: Prue Slatyer thought Tasmania was missing an incredible opportunity to capitalise socially and economically from its regional historical assets. So she went back to university to change that. An avid traveller and established architect with a strong
Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

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17 Sep 2017: Male Tasmanian-born prisoners, arrested in the second half of the nineteenth century, were over four centimetres taller, on average, than transported convicts. And they were nearly two centimetres taller than free migrants who were born in Britain
Unlocking insights from one of the world’s greatest archives

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/68-unlocking-insights-from-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-archives

14 Apr 2016: Tasmania is one of the few places on the planet where it is possible to study intergenerational health issues. This is because the settler population was amongst the best documented in the British Empire. Why? They came against their will. The life
The multicultural colony: not just convicts

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14 Oct 2022: Having convict heritage is considered to be a real badge of honour these days. In fact, we use the term “Australian Royalty” to refer to those with a convict in the family. But this is only one part of the story of colonial Australia. According
Professor Craig Johnson

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10 Feb 2023: BSc Hons 1980University of Tasmania ecologist and alumnus Professor Craig Johnson has spent his career underwater. He has dived under the ice with the navy in Canada, studied the rich kelp forests off South Africa, and researched the crown-of-thorns
Six steps towards achieving sustainability goals

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8 May 2023: For many years our University has been working hard to deliver more sustainable outcomes for Tasmania, and from Tasmania to the world. We know that our mission is a pressing one. Now is the time to create a society based on a climate positive and
From the north-west to wolves and a career in STEM

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8 Mar 2023: I grew up in a farming community on the far north-west coast of Tasmania, from a place few people have heard of: Nabageena. When I was in my mid-teens in the late 1980s, and thinking about going to university, my pop - and patriarch of our farming
Yes, the Chinese protests are about politics and freedom. But they…

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1 Dec 2022: While a lot of attention has been given to the unprecedented protests in China about the “dynamic zero COVID” policy, not much has been written about the wider political context, and particularly the young people leading the protests. These young
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
Tasmanian artists bound for heart of Paris

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4 Nov 2022: Six Tasmanian artists will jet off to Paris in 2023 where they will immerse themselves in the creative arts after being selected for a unique opportunity, offered by the University of Tasmania - Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency. Emerging artist
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
There is something special about Tasmania’s forests, and Tassie wood

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/there-is-something-special-about-tasmanias-forests-and-tassie-wood

13 Dec 2022: Rescuing climate-stressed treesIn a recent report, UNESCO noted Tasmania's World Heritage forests remove more carbon from the atmosphere than any other of their wilderness sites. In short, our forests are critical to solving climate change. But with
If you want your child to be more resilient, get them to join a…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/if-you-want-your-child-to-be-more-resilient,-get-them-to-join-a-choir,-orchestra-or-band

24 Oct 2022: William James Baker, University of Tasmania; Anne-Marie Forbes, University of Tasmania, and Kim McLeod, University of TasmaniaOne of the most important qualities for a young person to develop is resilience. This involves their ability to overcome
Healthy soil, healthy stock

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10 Feb 2023: Greenhams’ far manager Aiden Coombe is Circular Head born and bred. The region includes some of Tasmania’s most productive farming properties and Circular Head is well known for its reliable rainfall and fertile green pastures. The area supports
Leap of faith leads to fulfilling career change

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1265-leap-of-faith-leads-to-fulfilling-career-change

7 Apr 2022: Proudly from Burnie, Boni had always felt university was out of her reach, and it wasn’t until later in life, following an eleven-year career, that she took a leap of faith to pursue it. “I came from a low-income family that did it pretty tough
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
‘How are they losing their children like this?’ Fiona McFarlane’s…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/how-are-they-losing-their-children-like-this-fiona-mcfarlanes-novel-interrogates-the-stain-of-white-presence-on-aboriginal-land

6 Dec 2022: Lucy Christopher, University of Tasmania“How are they losing their children like this, all over the country? They aren’t used to the desert. ”These are the thoughts of a Pashtun cameleer in Fiona McFarlane’s second novel, The Sun Walks Down,
A day in the life of a media student

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/516-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-media-student

21 Jan 2018: For Paul Strk, a casual news editor at the ABC and Bachelor of Media student, work and study feed into each other beautifully – but managing time is the biggest challenge of all. In his own words, here’s a typical busy day towards the pointy end
A home for everyone?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/408-a-home-for-everyone

12 Sep 2017: While Australia has an egalitarian mythology, where everyone has a chance, the roots of problems with access to housing lie in our history. The first land grants were given to former convicts as a way to control an unfenced prison colony. As free
A year after coup, Myanmar is sliding into an intractable civil war

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1202-a-year-after-coup-myanmar-is-sliding-into-an-intractable-civil-war

2 Feb 2022: In the year since Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s prospects have deteriorated sharply, with untold misery for millions: deaths, arrests, detention, sickness, displacement, poverty and trauma. The military’s misjudgement of the
Building a rewarding career

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1108-building-a-rewarding-career

28 Jan 2021: Melanie Ransley is combining her two loves: carpentry and education. She has already completed a Certificate IV in Building and Construction, and she has two years left studying a Bachelor of Education (Applied Learning) at the University of
Sharing stories of the Law School

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/877-sharing-stories-of-the-law-school

24 Jun 2019: As a graduate of her combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree, Grace Williams has a passion for sharing knowledge and insights from her cohorts at the University of Tasmania’s Law School. Years ago, I started collecting stories… it
Five Reasons to Study Design in Tasmania

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/974-five-reasons-to-study-design-in-tasmania

17 Jan 2020: 1. Draw on Tasmania’s unique multi-skilled and accessible creative industry Sector. Experience genuine work integrated learning co-developing briefs and projects with Tasmanian industry partners including Dark Mofo, state and local government, and
5 ways to study a Bachelor of Arts with a creative heart

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/959-5-ways-to-study-a-bachelor-of-arts-with-a-creative-heart

7 Nov 2019: 1. Make art where art is made. Inject a creative element, choose an art minor from 3D Design, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Time Based Media, Visual Communication, or experiment across studios. 2. Read.
Moots a hoot

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20 Dec 2016: It is no longer a moot point – the Faculty of Law’s moot teams are the best in the country. Moots are hypothetical trials in which students act on behalf of clients in front of real judges. In late September a University of Tasmania team won the
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
Let the games begin

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/570-let-the-games-begin

5 Apr 2018: Britain’s territorial vastness was neatly summed up in the Victorian era by the observation that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. For 350 years, dating from when the East India Company was founded in 1600 until after the end of
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,
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
Becoming an agent for change

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/962-becoming-an-agent-for-change

18 Nov 2019: Originally from Borneo, Coby Liew moved to Tasmania to study a Bachelor of Social Work. He quickly fell in love with Tasmania’s beauty, clean and crispy air, beaches, adventurous outdoor activities, friendly people and communities, wonderful
Engaging, Connecting, Revitalising

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/engaging-connecting-revitalising

13 Dec 2022: Acknowledgement of CountryMina tunapri milaythina nara ningina waranta mapali mapali. Mina tunapri rruni lutruwita milaythina Pakana taymi ningina raytji. Mina tunapri Pakana Ngini; nara pumili makuminya waranta-mapali taypani lunta;
Why has the West given billions in military aid to Ukraine, but…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/why-has-the-west-given-billions-in-military-aid-to-ukraine,-but-virtually-ignored-myanmar

30 Jan 2023: Two years after Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s large and growing resistance forces receive almost no attention outside the country. The democratic opposition, fronted by the National Unity Government (NUG), but comprising many
International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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9 Feb 2023: Communities around the world will observe International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Saturday 11 February 2023. This year’s focus is the contribution of women in science to tackling the UN sustainable development goals; working towards
Creating art for mental health

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1181-creating-art-for-mental-health

12 Nov 2021: Creative projects like drawing and painting have always helped Linda Crispin clear her mind and refocus. Since completing a Bachelor Fine Arts in 2017, she has showcased her work in solo shows and is now a finalist in the 2021 Henry Jones Art
University lecturer named Teacher Educator of the Year

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/880-university-lecturer-named-teacher-educator-of-the-year

5 Jul 2019: University of Tasmania Senior Lecturer Dr Abbey MacDonald has had her innovative arts teaching practices recognised with the title Teachers Mutual Bank – ATEA Australian Teacher Educator of the Year. Dr MacDonald received the prestigious award this
How a little language study opened up the world

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/568-how-a-little-language-study-opened-up-the-world

29 Mar 2018: After studying beginner Indonesian for just one semester, James Ritchie was able to go on a life-changing study journey that seems to have set the course for his career. Here, he explains his journey to studying International Relations and Islamic
5 ways a PhD will enhance your career

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/758-5-ways-a-phd-will-enhance-your-career

30 Nov 2018: 1. You will develop specialist technical skills. Studying for a PhD fosters new research skills that enable you to explore your thesis topic deeply with specialised insight. You will be mentored by an accomplished researcher in your field – they
Home is where the art is

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/944-home-is-where-the-art-is

25 Sep 2019: When it came time for Rhi Bryce to consider moving interstate to study, she gave it some serious thought – for about two seconds. “I wanted to be close to Tassie,” she says of her decision. “It feels like home to me and makes me feel
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
In her natural environment

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/933-in-her-natural-environment

30 Sep 2019: “The first thing I noticed was the clean air – it felt like I was taking a full breath for the first time in my life. ”That’s how Olivia Hasler describes the first time that she landed in Hobart. But this wasn’t a holiday. Olivia was here
Busting the myths surrounding gifted learners

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/921-busting-the-myths-surrounding-gifted-learners

13 Sep 2019: What does it actually mean to be gifted? And how can we make sure we support gifted students? Dr Amanda J. Harper is an award-winning educator and is leading the University of Tasmania’s new online short course, Understanding Gifted Learners:
The jet-setting teacher

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/939-the-jet-setting-teacher

2 Oct 2019: You might not expect to find your future career in the middle of a Vietnamese holiday, but that’s the way things worked out for Kate Dewar. “I had a couple of years off after college and I volunteered as an English teacher in Vietnam, which was

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