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  2. IHOS Opera

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/IHOS%20opera.htm
    25 Jun 2012: IHOS Opera. IHOS Opera (Greek for 'sound') was founded in 1990 by composer and artistic director Constantine Koukias and production director Werner Ihlenfeld. Their experimental music theatre challenges both audience and artist through striking

  3. Alexander North

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Alex%20North.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Alexander North. Launceston Post office in 1905 (AOT, PH30/1/7855). Alexander North (1858–1945), a most original Australian architect. Born in Huddersfield, North trained in art and architecture in London, working with James Cubit, architectural

  4. William John Turner Clarke

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/WJT%20Clarke.htm
    25 Jun 2012: William John Turner Clarke. The Clarke family outside Quorn Hall, about 1860 (AOT, PH30/1/2079). William John Turner Clarke (c 1801–74), pastoralist, emigrated to Hobart in 1829 for better health and economic opportunity – both of which he

  5. James Ross

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Ross%20James.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Ross. Illustration from one of James Ross' almanacs, 1830 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). James Ross (1786–1838), teacher and editor, a Scot who had conducted schools, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1822. He received a land grant, but by 1825

  6. John Earle

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/John%20Earle.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Earle. John Earle (AOT, PH30/1/9975). John Earle (1865–1932), politician, miner, bookshop owner, was born at Bridgewater, and became a trade unionist while working as a miner on the west coast. In 1903 he became president of the first

  7. David Boon

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/David%20Boon.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Boon. David Boon piles on the runs at Lords, 1993 (BBC photograph). David Clarence Boon (b 1960), cricketer, was the first Tasmanian player to become an automatic choice in the Australian national team. Born in Launceston, he gained early

  8. Neil Davis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Neil%20Davis.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Neil Davis. Neil Brian Davis (1934–85), combat cameraman, was born at the remote hamlet of Nala in the southern midlands. He started his career as office boy in the Tasmanian Government Film Unit, and went on to become the most respected war

  9. James Gillies

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/JH%20Gillies.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Gillies. The calcium carbide plant at Electrona in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/2133). James Hyndes Gillies (1861–1942), metallurgist, inventor, entrepreneur and industrialist, invented an electrolytic process capable of producing metallic zinc from

  10. Royce Hart

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Royce%20Hart.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Royce Hart. Royce Desmond Hart (b 1948), footballer, was born in Hobart. Recruited as a 17-year-old from the Clarence under 19s by Richmond (Victoria), he represented them in 187 games, kicking 363 goals. His 1967 debut was stunning: he was

  11. Ferdinand Kayser

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/HWF%20Kayser.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ferdinand Kayser. Mt Bischoff mine, 1900 (AOT, NS241/1/36). Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand (Ferd) Kayser (1833–1919), Tasmania's first high-profile mining manager, was born at Clausthal, Hanover, Germany, where he graduated from the Royal Academy of

  12. Frank Long

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Frank%20Long.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frank Long. Frank Long (AOT, PH30/1/1873). Frank Long (1844?–1908), prospector and track-cutter, discovered the Zeehan-Dundas silver-lead field in 1882. Born in Launceston, the son of ex-convicts, he grew up at Campbell Town. Red-headed, freckled,

  13. West Coast

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/West%20coast.htm
    25 Jun 2012: West Coast. Kelly Basin mining settlement, c 1890 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The West Coast has always been separate: an island within an island. Isolated by its geography and the nature of its community, its relationship with the remainder of

  14. Dog racing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Dog%20racing.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Dog racing. Dog racing started in the 1870s with greyhound coursing, where two greyhounds competed to catch a hare in the wild, initially at Quamby. In the 1920s, electric hares replaced live hares, but interest was slight as betting was illegal.

  15. War Heroes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/War%20heroes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: War Heroes. War heroes have been outstanding on a number of military occasions. Two Tasmanians won the Victoria Cross in South Africa during the South African (Boer) War (1899–1902). Guy George Wylly and John Hutton Bisdee won their award on the
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    Marine Predator Migratory Connectivity

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/marine-and-antarctic/marine-predator-migratory-connectivity
    26 Jun 2024: Marine Predator Migratory Connectivity. Migratory connectivity of Antarctic seabirds and marine mammals. Marine Predator Migratory Connectivity. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 August 2024. Campus. Hobart. Citizenship requirement. Domestic /

  17. Credit Procedure Versions - Governance Instruments Framework

    https://www.utas.edu.au/policy/procedures/version-history/people/admission,-enrolment-and-credit/credit-procedure
    30 Jul 2024: Credit Procedure Versions. Version history. Version. Action. Approved by. Approval date. Business Owner. Reconfirmed, unchanged. Director, Academic Quality and Standards as delegate for Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Education. 17 July 2024. Director,

  18. Frontier Conflict

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Frontier%20Conflict.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frontier Conflict. Proclamation by Governor Arthur (not Davey) intended to promote peace between the two races, with little effect (ALMFA, SLT). Colonial frontiers were ambiguous places, comprising official borders that marked the advancing limits

  19. Bushwalking Clubs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bushwalking%20clubs.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bushwalking Clubs. 'Pinnacle, Mt Wellington', 1878 (W. L. Crowther Librar, SLT). Before the Hobart and Launceston Walking Clubs were formed in 1929 and 1946 respectively, there had been individuals and small groups, such as the Mountain Club, Sunday

  20. Railway Accidents

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Railway%20accidents.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Railway Accidents. The accident at Coal Mine Bend, 1877 (W. L. Crowther Library). Railway accidents in Tasmania's 133 years of railways have been remarkably few, in view of difficult operating conditions occasioned by hilly terrain. Successions of

  21. Volunteer Defence Forces

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/V/Volunteer%20defence.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Volunteer Defence Forces. Southern Tasmanian volunteeers, 1865 (AOT, PH30/1/469). Volunteer Defence Forces or citizen soldiers reflected a commitment to community service and symbolised respectability and status. Tasmania's first were the Hobart
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