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  2. Norman James Brian Plomley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Plomley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Norman James Brian Plomley. Norman James Brian Plomley AM (1912–94), one of the most respected and scholarly of historians writing about the Tasmanian Aborigines, was born in Sydney, and graduated BSc (Sydney, 1935) and MSc (Tasmania, 1947).
  3. Ricky Ponting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Ponting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ricky Ponting. Ricky Ponting (b 1974), of Launceston, is Tasmania's highest-achieving cricketer. Small in stature, still boyish in face and manner, arguably the world's best fieldsman, he bats for Australia in the prime number three position. He
  4. Abalone

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abalone.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Abalone. Recherche Bay (AOT, PH30/1/3136). Abalone, blacklip and greenlip shellfish, was harvested by Aborigines, then Chinese miners. Chinese residents of Recherche Bay preserved abalone by smoking it, and exported some to Melbourne. European
  5. Roberts Limited

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Roberts.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roberts Limited. George Anthony Kemp, a founder of Roberts (AOT, PH30/1/267). Roberts Limited began in 1865 when Henry Llewelyn Roberts, George Anthony Kemp and John William Abbott established a successful auctioneering business originally known as
  6. Snaring and Trapping

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Snaring.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Snaring and Trapping. Snaring and trapping of native mammals for their skins began with human occupation of Tasmania. While the activity occurred throughout the island, the most valuable skins were found in the high country where colder weather
  7. Muslim community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Muslims.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Muslim community. Muslims form 1. 5 percent of all Australians but only 0. 2 percent of Tasmanians, nearly two-thirds of them living in Hobart. Ethnically diverse, the community has drawn its numbers from Eastern Europe, West and Central Africa, and
  8. History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/History.htm
    25 Jun 2012: History. History was taught in Tasmania as soon as schools were established: British history, learned by rote. When public examinations were established in 1860, History was a major subject, with factual questions ('Name the chief plots in Charles II
  9. Physics and Physicists

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Physics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Physics and Physicists. A 1942 vice-regal visit to Leicester McAuley's retreat at the Great Lake, where he did much of his work (AOT, PH30/1/2711). The teaching of tertiary physics in Tasmania commenced at the newly established University of
  10. Cadbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cadbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cadbury. Harry Kelly, 'Cadbury's by mountain and sea, Claremont, Tasmania', 1950s (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The chocolate house of Cadbury was founded in Birmingham, England in 1830 and began exports to Australia in 1881. After the First World War
  11. Exports

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exports.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exports. Loading export apples on to a Europe-bound ship, Hobart wharves, 1890 (AOT, PH30/1/5607). Exports have a major impact on Tasmania's economic performance, as about half the state's products are sold either overseas or interstate. Since
  12. Phoenix Ironworks

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Phoenix.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Phoenix Ironworks. The Phoenix Ironworks was founded in Launceston in 1860 by millwright William Henry Knight. Initially he imported and manufactured agricultural equipment, and was a traditional millwright for the flour and sawmilling industries.
  13. Ritchie Milling Dynasty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Ritchie.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ritchie Milling Dynasty. The mill at Scone (AOT, PH30/1/1150). The Ritchie milling dynasty began with Thomas Ritchie, who by 1834 had built a flourmill at Scone, near Perth. Sons Thomas, John and George were involved with milling in Longford, but it
  14. Strikes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Strikes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Strikes. Workers have used a range of collective methods to maintain or improve their working conditions, ranging from mass absconding, making demands or petitions, to imposing work bans, but strikes – or the temporary withdrawal of labour – are
  15. Museums

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Museums.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Museums. Samuel Clifford's photograph of what was to become the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1862 (W. L. Crowther Library). The collecting and study of Australia's unique flora and fauna began with the first explorers, and this quest for
  16. Croquet

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Croquet.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Croquet. Croquet appealed to all ages and both sexes: a party at Bishopscourt, Hobart, about 1880 (ALMFA, SLT). Croquet arrived in Tasmania in the 1860s, but from the 1880s was overshadowed in popularity by tennis. Some felt this a pity since
  17. Cycling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cycling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cycling. A cycling race at Cambridge, 1908 (AOT, PH30/1/4327). Cycling has attracted enthusiastic support in Tasmania since the 1880s, when the first cycling clubs in Launceston and Hobart organised race meetings, but it really became popular in the
  18. Netball

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Netball.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Netball. Netball, then known as 'basketball', was introduced to Tasmania in the 1890s, becoming a popular winter sport in schools, mainly for girls, though some boys played. After the First World War it became popular among adult women, and in the
  19. The Mercury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mercury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: The Mercury. The Mercury office in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/5440). The Mercury began in 1853 when John Davies, a former convict, bought a Hobart newspaper, the Guardian, and the following year renamed it the Hobarton Mercury. It first appeared as a
  20. Defence

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Defence.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Defence. Alfred Winter ,'Group of military volunteers', c 1880 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Defence, in terms of resistance to invasion, was a life and death issue for Aboriginal Tasmanians in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. The
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    Time Management, Planning and Organisation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/professional-skills/time-management,-planning-and-organisation-public
    30 Jan 2024: Learn how to manage deadlines, meet targets, and improve your performance in the workplace.
  22. Past newsletters - ARC Centre for Forest Value

    https://www.utas.edu.au/arc-forest-value/news-media-and-outputs/past-newsletters
    22 Nov 2021: Past newsletters. Newsletter No. 7 - March 2021. Newsletter No. 6 - Dec 2020. Newsletter No. 5 - Sept 2020. Newsletter No. 4 - June 2020. Newsletter No. 3 - March 2020. Newsletter No. 2 - Nov 2019. Newsletter No. 1 - Sept 2019.
  23. Here and Elsewhere. Summary. New acquisitions from the UTAS Fine Art Collection. Start Date. Aug 31, 2019 12:00 pm. End Date. Sept 19, 2019 5:00 pm. Venue. Plimsoll Gallery, School of Creative Arts and Media. Here and Elsewhere: New acquisitions
  24. HCC Design Award. Summary. Hobart Town Hall 150 Design Award. Start Date. Dec 10, 2016 12:30 pm. End Date. Jan 29, 2017 5:30 pm. Venue. Plimsoll Tall Gallery. RSVP / Contact. Hobart Town Hall 150 Design Award. The Hobart Town Hall 150 Design Award
  25. 2019 Tasmanian Architecture Awards

    https://www.utas.edu.au/built-digital-natural/news/ad/2019/2019-tasmanian-architecture-awards
    16 Jul 2019 2019 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. Congratulations to two of our alumni for taking out prizes at the 2019 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. Evan Davies, Inspiring Insight, SWT Blythe Student Prize. "Evan Davies brief /thesis was comprehensive in
  26. Release of Final Report: Facilitating Equal Access to Justice: An…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/law-reform/news-and-events/tlri-news/final-report-23-released
    15 Jul 2022 Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. Tasmania Law Reform Institute. Release of Final Report:
  27. Female Factories

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Female%20factories.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Female Factories. The Hobart Female Factory, 1860s, by Robert Beauchamp (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Female Factories were established in Van Diemen's Land primarily as places of punishment for women charged with further offences after their
  28. Probation System

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Probation%20system.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Probation System. Impression Bay Probation Station, c 1850 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Probation System was an experiment in penal discipline unique to Van Diemen's Land. Introduced in 1839, it was modified several times from 1846 until it was
  29. Female Franchise

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Female%20franchise.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Female Franchise. Able to vote: Tasmanian nurses, 1902 (AOT, PH30/1/5320). Female Franchise was actively campaigned for in Tasmania from the early 1890s, and in 1902 women were given the right to vote in federal elections. Tasmanian women became
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    Tasmanian Institute of Sport HECS Scholarship

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/fee-scholarships/tasmanian-institute-of-sport
    18 Jun 2024: Tasmanian Institute of Sport HECS Scholarship. A professional development opportunity for Tasmanian Institute of Sport high performance athletes and staff. Tasmanian Institute of Sport HECS Scholarship. Overview. The Tasmanian Institute of Sport
  31. https://www.utas.edu.au/mylo/staff/staff-resources/web-conferencing/zo…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/mylo/staff/staff-resources/web-conferencing/zoom-user-guide
    15 Feb 2023:
  32. Mount Lyell Fire

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mt%20Lyell%20fire.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mount Lyell Fire. 'Tasmania's largest funeral', 1913 (W. L. Crowther library). The Mount Lyell Fire began on Saturday 12 October 1912 in a pump house on the 700-foot level of the large Mount Lyell mine, as 170 miners were working on six underground
  33. Mount Read Mines

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mt%20Read%20mines.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mount Read Mines. Postcard of Williamsford (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Prospector Alfred Conliffe discovered a gold-bearing gossan on Mount Hamilton, a western spur of Mount Read, during 1890. The Mount Read Mining Company was established to work the
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    International Alumni Award

    https://www.utas.edu.au/community-and-partners/alumni/our-alumni/international-alumni-award
    29 Apr 2022: International Alumni Award. Honouring the exceptional impact our alumni are having on our island and the world. International Alumni Award. Read about our International Alumni Award recipients or browse our other award category listings. 2024 - The
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    Tyler Visiting Fellows

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/arts-and-culture/learn-with-our-collection/tyler-visiting-fellows
    11 Jul 2024: Submissions are sought from Tasmanian Aboriginal artists and designers to collaborate with an experienced muralist to design and install artwork on the HydroBox
  36. People - CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences

    https://www.utas.edu.au/codes/people?queries_classification_query=Postgraduate
    27 Jun 2019: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences. People.
  37. Labor Party

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Labor%20Party.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Labor Party. The parliamentary Labor Party under Dwyer-Gray, 1939 (AOT, PH30/1/735). The Labor Party in Tasmania was a late developer. The 'hated stain' of convictism, lowering worker morale, allowed some early trade unionism, such as the free
  38. John Richard Buckland

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/JR%20Buckland.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Richard Buckland. The Hutchins School when Buckland was headmaster (AOT, PH30/1/342). John Richard Buckland (1819–74), clergyman and first headmaster of the Hutchins School (1846–74), was the outstanding educationist in mid-nineteenth
  39. John Bruce Hamilton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/JB%20Hamilton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Bruce Hamilton. John Bruce Hamilton (1901–68), ophthalmologist, was invited in the 1930s, with Dr WD Counsell, to investigate the causes of blindness in Tasmania. In 1940 he published his valuable Guide to Ophthalmic Operations, and from
  40. Gold Mining

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gold%20mining.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gold Mining. A supposed goldfield: Ben Lomond and Tower Hill, 1859 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Gold mining began in 1847 when John Gardner found gold-bearing quartz on Blythe Creek, near Beaconsfield. The first payable gold was found in 1852, in
  41. Mount Bischoff

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mt%20Bischoff.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Mount Bischoff. W Cawston, 'Bischoff', undated (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Mount Bischoff's tin-bearing cassiterite was discovered by James 'Philosopher' Smith at Tinstone Creek in 1871, and he found the massive Mount Bischoff orebody in 1872.
  42. Abt Railway

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abt%20railway.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Abt Railway. Undated postcard of the Abt Railway above the King River Gorge, showing the toothed rail (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Owned by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, traversing inhospitable terrain through dense west coast rainforest,
  43. Recreational fishing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rec%20fishing.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Recreational fishing. Mary Morton Allport's sketch 'Esperance River' shows four fishermen of various ages enjoying the sport (ALMFA, SLT). Recreational fishing perhaps began with the Aboriginal people, though whether they ate scale fish as well as
  44. Zoom Overview - MyLO - My Learning Online

    https://www.utas.edu.au/mylo/staff/staff-resources/web-conferencing/web-conferencing-overview
    15 Feb 2023: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. MyLO - My Learning Online. Zoom Overview. Zoom Web conferencing
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    Elite Athlete Recognition Application

    https://www.utas.edu.au/uni-life/support-and-wellbeing/elite-athlete/application-form
    5 Oct 2023: Elite Athlete Recognition Application. Elite Athlete Recognition Application. Do you compete in high level sport and believe you meet the meet the eligibility criteria for the program? Have you been accepted into your University of Tasmania course
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    Podcasts

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/institutes-and-centres/csaw/education/educational-resources/podcasts
    28 Jul 2023: Podcasts. Timber Podcasts are an expanding resource of free online videos designed to increase skill and capacity in timber design and construction. Podcasts cover wood products, timber properties, wood's environmental aspects, and technical skills.
  47. Exploration by Sea

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exploration%20by%20sea.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exploration by Sea. Claude-Francois Fortier et al, 'Terre de Diemen', 1807 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The first European contact was made in 1642 by Abel Janszoon Tasman, who sailed around the south and east coasts of Tasmania. His first sight of
  48. Updating your Unit Homepage Image - MyLO - My Learning Online

    https://www.utas.edu.au/mylo/staff/staff-resources/using-mylo-for-the-first-time/updating-your-unit-homepage-image
    18 Nov 2024: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. MyLO - My Learning Online. Updating your Unit Homepage Image.
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    Cyber Fundamentals for Digital Health | Study microcredentials

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/microcredentials/courses/cyber-fundamentals-for-digital-health
    25 Oct 2024: Enhance your cybersecurity literacy, to operate, protect and manage private data effectively within your workplace.
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    Managing oxalis in rotational crops | Tasmanian Institute of…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/tia/research/research-projects/project/horticulture/investigating-collar-rot-of-peas
    31 Oct 2024: Managing oxalis in rotational crops. Managing oxalis in rotational crops. Project details. Status: Current. Project team. Lead:. Laurie Krauss (PhD candidate), Prof Calum Wilson. Funding and partners. Funding:. Hort Innovation - Frontiers.
  51. K-2 Movement and Physical Activity - HealthLit4Kids

    https://www.utas.edu.au/hl4k/open-education-resource/k-2-movement-and-physical-activity
    7 Dec 2018: K-2 Movement and Physical Activity.
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