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  2. Acknowledgements

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Acknowledgements.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Acknowledgements. Many hundreds of people around Tasmania and on the mainland assisted with the Companion, and thanks are due to a large number of people. The project was made possible by two research grants. The Australian Research Council provided
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    Tasmania's best soil judges to get down and dirty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/tasmanias-best-soil-judges-to-get-down-and-dirty
    25 Nov 2024: Tasmania’s best soil judges are about to put their skills to the test in an international competition. The two teams of University of Tasmania Agricultural Science students have been selected to take on Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific’s
  4. Earth Observation - Built, Digital and Natural Environments

    https://www.utas.edu.au/built-digital-natural/geography-and-spatial-sciences/research/earth-observation
    12 Jan 2023: Earth Observation. Geography and Spatial Sciences Research Theme. Overview. The Surveying and Spatial Science team at the University of Tasmania undertakes world class research addressing problems of direct societal significance by harnessing the
  5. Walyer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walyer%202.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Walyer. Walyer (c 1800–31), north-west Aborigine. The arrival of Europeans in the north-west undermined traditional Aboriginal social and economic structures, generating a group of disparate Aborigines under the leadership of Walyer, a Tomeginer
  6. Ida West

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/West%20Ida.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ida West. The cover of the second edition of Ida West's autobiography (Montpelier Press). Aunty Ida West (1919–2003), Aboriginal leader. Aunty Ida West and her family were 'Islanders', Tasmanian Aborigines who survived the impact of colonial
  7. Eisteddfods

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Eisteddfods.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Eisteddfods. Eisteddfods originally were gatherings of bards and minstrels in Wales. They were the first form of musical competition in Australia, beginning in Ballarat in 1855. Eisteddfods allow amateurs to perform publicly, enhancing standards
  8. Mary Fox

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Mary%20Fox.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mary Fox. Methodist Ladies College (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Mary Elizabeth Gertrude Fox MBE (1877–1962), headmistress, was born at Ross, the daughter of William Fox, Headmaster of Horton College, 1863–89. Educated at Launceston's Methodist
  9. James Rule

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rule%20Jas.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Rule. The Kettering State School when James Rule was Director of Education (AOT, PH30/1/4997). James Rule (1831–1901), teacher and educationist, arrived in Tasmania in 1855, one of eight teachers recruited from England. He became headmaster
  10. King O'Malley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/O%27Malley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: King O'Malley. King O'Malley (right) at the naming of Canberra, 1913, with vice-regal personnel. 'King' O'Malley (c 1858–1953), politician, was born in North America. After a career as an insurance salesman, he came to Tasmania in 1889 and moved
  11. Chin Kaw

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Chin%20Kaw.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Chin Kaw. Chin Kaw (1865–1922), Chinese merchant, Chinese Consular representative, philanthropist, tobacco manufacturer, community leader, was born in Shui hu, Kaiping, Taishan. He arrived in Tasmania in approximately 1879 (aged fourteen) to join
  12. Low Head

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Low%20Head.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Low Head. Susan Fereday, 'Lighthouse at Low Head', undated (ALMFA, SLT). Low Head, named by Matthew Flinders in 1798, lies at the mouth of the River Tamar. Its strategic importance as a signal post for vessels was quickly recognised by Colonel
  13. Aquaculture

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Aquaculture.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Aquaculture. Salmon Ponds hatchery house and stream (AOT, PH30/1/5485). Aquaculture in Australia can be claimed as starting in the Salmon Ponds, where in 1864, the first trout and salmon fry were hatched in the southern hemisphere. However the
  14. Mathematics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mathematics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mathematics. Mathematics' importance has been recognised for a long time. Plato wrote, 'God ever geometrizes'. Without mathematics our technological society could not exist. Mathematics underpins, for example, the design of aircraft, mobile phone
  15. Britishness

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Britishness.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Britishness. Ceremony on the Hobart Domain, 1910, showing strong allegiance to Britain (AOT, PH30/1/790). Although all six Australian states can claim British colonial foundations, the British legacy to Tasmania is more enduring and more visible to
  16. Exile

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exile%20MS.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exile. Like many other words such as wisdom, inkwell, shoetree and wrath, 'exile' is an endangered species, ever more rarely heard and seen in contemporary English. It has already lost a clutch of meanings including thin, fine-spun (when used of
  17. Exile

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exile%20RD.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exile. Exile to Van Diemen's Land was voluntary as well as forced, though the latter has gained most attention up to the end of transportation in 1853. Tasmanian records are rich in recording the initial adjustment of convicts to a new society. Both
  18. Expatriates

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Expatriates.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Expatriates. Except for a few short periods of sustained growth, demographic records since the 1840s reflect that the island of Tasmania has suffered a population loss often in excess of natural and migratory increase. Today on the Australian
  19. Restaurants

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Restaurants.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Restaurants. One of the places where customers could buy a meal in Launceston, c 1890: the Federal Coffee Palace (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). It was not until 1968, with the opening of the Martini in Burnie, that Tasmania had its first self-contained
  20. Tasmanian Club

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tas%20club.htm
    9 Aug 2012: Tasmanian Club. Macquarie Street, Hobart, in 1875, showing the building (right) which became the Tasmanian Club (ALMFA, SLT). The Tasmanian Club was established in 1861 in Hobart by seventy gentlemen. It was founded on the 'London pattern', that is,
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    Brave Foundation program research | Peter Underwood Centre

    https://www.utas.edu.au/community-and-partners/peter-underwood-centre/research/brave-foundation-program-research
    15 Apr 2024: Brave Foundation program research. Brave Foundation program research. The Brave Foundation is dedicated to providing assistance to young parents through their Supporting Expecting and Parenting Teens (SEPT) Program, with a strong focus on their
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