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  2. Bernard Cronin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cronin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bernard Cronin. A load of timber at Marrawah, 1931 (AOT, PH30/1/9218). Bernard Charles Cronin (1884–1968), novelist, was born in England and came to Australia in 1890. After winning a scholarship to Dookie Agricultural College, he worked as a
  3. Edwin Tanner

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tanner.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edwin Tanner. Edwin Russell Tanner (1920–80), artist and engineer, was born in Wales and, at the age of nine, migrated to Australia with his family. Due to the Depression he left school at thirteen, but from a beginning 'sweeping floors' at BHP
  4. Cyprus

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cyprus.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cyprus. Cyprus, brig of 108 tons, first arrived at Hobart from London in 1825 and was purchased by the Van Diemen's Land government as a tender to thesettlement, being extensively rebuilt there in 1827–1828. On 9 August 1829 the vessel was
  5. Kenneth Wriedt

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wriedt.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kenneth Wriedt. Kenneth Shaw Wriedt (b 1927), outstanding Labor politician, was born and educated in Melbourne. A merchant ships' officer 1944–58, he then took up insurance work in Hobart. In 1968 Wriedt won a Senate seat for Labor. His
  6. Reginald Wright

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wright.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Reginald Wright. Reginald Wright (Parliament of Tasmania). Reginald Charles Wright (1905–90), lawyer and parliamentarian, was born at Central Castra. Graduating in Arts and Law from the University of Tasmania, he practised from 1928 until 1980 as
  7. Burnie

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Burnie.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Burnie. Burnie in the 1950s (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Burnie, on the shores of Emu Bay, was first settled in 1827 by the Van Diemen's Land Company's chief surveyor, Henry Hellyer, as a port to serve the Surrey and Hampshire native grasslands, fifty
  8. Cressy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cressy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cressy. Emily Bowring, 'Trinity Church, Cressy', c 1859 (ALMFA, SLT). Cressy is a small rural town in northern Tasmania some 36 kilometres from Launceston, situated in the region known as Norfolk Plains. The area was developed by the New South Wales
  9. Cygnet

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cygnet.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cygnet. Undated postcard of Cygnet (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Cygnet was named by d'Entrecasteaux in 1793, after the swans he saw there. William Nichols was the first permanent settler in the Huon, receiving his land grant at Cygnet in 1829, and the
  10. Hobart

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hobart.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hobart. AC Cooke, 'Hobart Town', 1879 (ALMFA, SLT). Hobart was founded in 1804, when Lt-Governor Collins moved the main southern settlement from Risdon to Sullivan's Cove. This was an excellent site, with a good port, good fresh water, and the
  11. Sorell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sorell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sorell. Undated postcard of Sorell (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Sorell was first explored by European parties from Risdon Cove in 1803. Fertile lands were discovered and a large expanse of water located, known as Pitt Water. By 1808 several farmers
  12. Zeehan

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Z/Zeehan.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Zeehan. Undated postcard of Zeehan (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Zeehan, a mining town on Tasmania's west coast, was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janzoon Tasman's ship, the Zeehaen. In 1882 silver-lead ore was discovered near Mount Zeehan, but
  13. Agfest

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Agfest.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Agfest. Agfest, originated and still operated by Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania, began in 1983 with ten exhibitors displaying agricultural products at the motor racing track at Symmons Plains. Over the years it has grown to include over 700
  14. Gender

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gender.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gender. A group of Hobart women, 1890 (AOT, PH30/1/2055). The gender relations of the original Tasmanians, the Aborigines, are described in the article 'Aboriginal life pre-invasion'. The Aborigines declined drastically in numbers after the arrival
  15. Legacy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Legacy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Legacy. The Governor, Lord Rowallan, addressing the annual dinner of the Launceston Legacy Club, 1961. (AOT, PH30/1/3557). Legacy is a volunteer organisation dedicated to the care of the widows and children of deceased servicemen – their 'legacy'.
  16. Probus Clubs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Probus.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Probus Clubs. Probus members performing 'Growing Old Disgracefully' at Handclasp, the meeting of the thirty Probus clubs in southern Tasmania (Combined Probus Club of Jordan). Probus Clubs are a division of Rotary Clubs. They began in the United
  17. Rotary

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rotary.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rotary. The world-wide founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, being 'ambushed' by Hobart Rotary Club members, 1935. He had earlier commented that despite living in Chicago, notorious for its crime, he had never been held up. (Rotary Club of Hobart). Rotary
  18. Canals

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Canals.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Canals. 'Opening [of] Denison Canal', 1905 (ALMFA, SLT). The Denison Canal at Dunalley is the only purpose-built sea canal in Australia. Agitation by east coast settlers to improve transport by avoiding the longer, often rough voyage around Tasman
  19. Kidney Disease - College of Health and Medicine

    https://www.utas.edu.au/health/research/groups/tasmanian-school-of-medicine/kidney-disease
    15 Jun 2022: Kidney Disease. To provide better care for people who are affected by kidney disease. The kidney disease research group seeks to better understand how kidney disease affects people’s lives and how to provide better care for them. We cover the
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    Copyright infringement notification - Australian Maritime College

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