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  2. Henry Dobson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Henry%20Dobson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Dobson. The Dobson family in a carriage outside their home in South Hobart (AOT, PH30/1/9807). Henry Dobson (1841–1918), lawyer and politician, was born in Hobart. Following in his father's footsteps, he was called to the Tasmanian Bar in
  3. Public Administration

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Public%20admin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Public Administration. Public Administration in Tasmania began when civil officials were organised in Sydney and London for the three settlements established in 1803 and 1804. The largest settlement, at Hobart in February 1804, contained officers
  4. Bill Barwick

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bill%20Barwick.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bill Barwick. Ernest William (Bill) Barwick MBE (1905–97), athlete, was born in Cleveland, and in 1933 held every Tasmanian distance record from 800 yards to 15 miles. He specialised in the mile, and at the 1932 national championships in Melbourne,
  5. Alfred Biggs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Alfred%20Biggs.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Alfred Biggs. Alfred Biggs (AOT, PH30/1/2892). Alfred Barratt Biggs (1825–1900), telephoner and astronomer, is credited with making the first long distance telephone call in Australia in 1877, between Campbell Town and Launceston. A teacher by
  6. Warren Carey

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Warren%20Carey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Warren Carey. Samuel Warren Carey AO, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1911–2002), geologist. Graduating from the University of Sydney with a DSc in 1934, after distinguished careers as petroleum geologist in Papua New Guinea and
  7. Emily Dobson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Emily%20Dobson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Emily Dobson. The Dobson family in their garden with tennis equipment, 1888 (AOT, PH30/1/9822). Emily Dobson (née Lemprière, 1842–1934), philanthropist. Married to Premier Henry Dobson, she was a formidable person and one of the first publicly
  8. Charles Eady

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Charles%20Eady.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Charles Eady. Charles Eady (AOT, PH30/1/2215/2). Charles John Eady (1870–1945), cricketer, played in and for Tasmania between 1890 and 1908, batting aggressively and bowling quickly with equal effectiveness. In 1895 he became the first Australian
  9. David Foster

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/David%20Foster.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Foster. David George Foster (b 1957), axeman, born in Hobart, is the first person in sporting history to have won over one thousand championships and is the most successful axeman in the history of the sport of woodchopping. His record
  10. Harold Gatty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Harold%20Gatty.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Harold Gatty. Harold Garry and Wiley Post after their record-breaking flight (Online Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 9 Nov 2006. Harold Charles Gatty (1903–57), air navigator, was born at Campbell Town and apprenticed as a ship's
  11. Lindy Goggin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Lindy%20Goggin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lindy Goggin. Lindsey Gaye (Lindy) Goggin (b 1949), golfer, was born in Launceston. From the age of twenty, Lindy played off scratch and became the lowest handicapped golfer in the world in 1976, playing from plus four. Her record marks her as the
  12. Peter Hudson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Peter%20Hudson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Peter Hudson. Peter John Hudson (b 1946), footballer, was born at New Norfolk. His tally of 469 goals over four seasons in Tasmania attracted huge media attention when he made his 1967 VFL debut with Hawthorn. Arguably the greatest full-forward of
  13. Allan Knight

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Allan%20Knight.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Allan Knight. Allan Knight (AOT, PH30/1/3598). Allan Walton Knight (1910–98), one of Australia's outstanding engineers. Born in Launceston, a brilliant student who excelled at sport, he graduated from the University of Tasmania in Science and
  14. Merle Oberon

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Merle%20Oberon.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Merle Oberon. Merle Oberon (c 1911–79), film star, appeared on the cover of the Weekly Courier, 28 June 1934 as 'Tasmania's Own Screen Star', an accompanying article claiming she was the daughter of Irish and French parents and was taken by an
  15. Chung Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Chung%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Chung Family. Willie Chung Sing arrived in Tasmania from China in 1890 to work in the Derby tin mines. When work ran out, he moved to Hobart and started to grow vegetables. In 1923 he returned to China and brought back his three sons, and they ran a
  16. Small-Fruits

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Small%20fruits.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Small-Fruits. Many crops of small fruits were grown on the slopes of the Collinsvale hills (AOT, PH30/1/1785). From 1806 the Rev Robert Knopwood reported that gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries and 'English currents' were grown in the
  17. Oral History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oral%20history.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oral History. Oral History has been used for imparting historical knowledge for thousands of years. In Tasmania Aboriginal people certainly imparted knowledge to their children by word of mouth. Indeed most Tasmanians can point to family lore handed
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    Emergency Response Centre - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/facilities/emergency-response-centre
    5 Sep 2023: Emergency Response Centre. Emergency Response Centre. Providing the training that could one day mean the difference between life and death. Survival Centre. Learn how to keep a cool head under pressure. Combining a heated pool and mock ship's
  19. Wilson and Sons

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wilson%20shipbuilders.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wilson and Sons. The schooner Evaleeta at Port Cygnet. She was built by Walter Wilson in 1923 for the timber trade. (AOT, PH30/1/1288). Wilson and Sons, shipbuilders, was founded by John Wilson (1842–1912), who began building wooden boats in 1863,
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    The winners and losers of disturbance

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/biological-sciences/the-winners-and-losers-of-disturbance
    21 Aug 2024: The winners and losers of disturbance. The winners and losers of changing disturbance regimes: can plant mutualist strategy predict their response to disturbance? The winners and losers of disturbance. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024.
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    Aquaculture and the Circular Economy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/marine-and-antarctic/aquaculture-and-the-circular-economy
    24 Oct 2024: Aquaculture and the Circular Economy. Aquaculture and the Circular Economy: A Case Study from Tasmania to Provide a Better Understanding of the Potential Role of Government in Sustainable Development. Aquaculture and the Circular Economy. Degree
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