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  2. Stuart Challender

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Challender.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stuart Challender. Stuart David Challender (1947–91), conductor, was born and educated in Hobart, and decided to become a conductor on hearing Tibor Paul conducting Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony at his first concert. After studying in Melbourne,

  3. Peter Sculthorpe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sculthorpe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Peter Sculthorpe. Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (b 1929), composer, was raised in Launceston and studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium and at Wadham College, Oxford. He first came to critical notice at the Australian Composers' Seminar in

  4. Francis Simpkinson De Wesselow

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Simpkinson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Francis Simpkinson De Wesselow. Simpkinson de Wesselow, 'Sassafras Valley V. D. L. Mount Wellington', 1848 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Francis Guillemard Simpkinson De Wesselow (1819–1906), naval officer, colonial artist in Van Diemen's Land and

  5. Corruption

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Corruption.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Corruption. A picture of rectitude: three policemen in Elizabeth Street, Hobart, in 1900 (AOT, NS1013/1/18). Corruption – adopting ethically dubious practices and breaching a position of trust, usually for money or personal advantage – has been

  6. John Gellibrand

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gellibrand.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Gellibrand. Major-General John Gellibrand (1872–1945), the highest-ranking Tasmanian officer during the First World War. Born at Ouse and educated in Britain, Gellibrand fought with the British army in the South African War. He joined the AIF

  7. Ebenezer Shoobridge

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Shoobridge.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ebenezer Shoobridge. WE Shoobridge's home, Hawthorn Lodge at Bushy Park, c 1875 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). William Ebenezer Shoobridge (1846-1940), engineer, inventor, irrigator, sometimes parliamentarian, pillar of the community and prolific

  8. Gustav and Kate Weindorfer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Weindorfer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gustav and Kate Weindorfer. Waldheim, the Weindorfers' chalet at Cradle Mountain, probaly 1920s (AOT, PH30/1/3151). Gustav (1874–1932) and Kate Julia (1863–1916) Weindorfer, pioneers of conservation, recognised Tasmania's potential for

  9. Irrigation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/Irrigation.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Irrigation. Campbell Town water works, 1880 (AOT, PH30/1/4723). Once early settlers had secured a reliable supply of drinking water, the excess could be harnessed for other purposes. During the dry years of the early 1840s the practice of irrigation

  10. Osmiridium

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Osmiridium.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Osmiridium. The rugged country around the Pieman River where osmiridium was mined – mostly far from any bridge or road. (AOT, NS241/1/33). Osmiridium is a popular name for a naturally occurring alloy of the metals iridium and osmium.

  11. Slovenians

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Slovenians.htm
    25 Jun 2012: SLOVENIANS. On 4 November 1995, a freezing cold spring morning, the Slovenian Community witnessed the unveiling of a black granite plaque in the International Wall of Friendship at Hobart. At a previous function on Saturday 20 May 1995, the

  12. Philosophy and Philosophers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Philosophy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Philosophy and Philosophers. From 1902 to 1913 RL Dunbabin, a Tasmanian with an Oxford degree, lectured on Mental and Moral Sciences in the Department of Classics and English Literature, University of Tasmania. In 1913 Melbourne-trained E Morris

  13. Finlaysons

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Finlaysons.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Finlaysons. Finlaysons foundry (and a product) in 1900 (AOT, NS602/34/126). Finlaysons, of Devonport, began in 1887 when twenty-year-old immigrant James Finlayson started an engineering business at the River Don settlement. The company produced

  14. Temperance

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Temperance.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Temperance. Advertisement for a Rechabite temperance meeting at Longford, 1863 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Temperance societies proliferated after the 1832 arrival of the Quakers, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who started a pledge to

  15. Basketball

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Basketball.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Basketball. As in other states, Tasmanian basketball began with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), which organised competitions in Hobart, Launceston and possibly Devonport in the 1930s. Basketball stagnated in the war years with so much

  16. Television

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Television.htm
    28 May 2014: Television. The television transmitter station on Mount Wellington, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3454). Television appeared in Australia in 1956, and Tasmania in 1960, in Hobart. In 1958 Commercial Broadcasters Ltd (essentially the radio station 7HO) were
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    Teacher Vitality Day Hobart: 18 March

    Teacher Vitality Day Hobart: 18 March. Held on the 18th Mar 2023. at 9:30am to. 1:30pm. Add to Calendar 2023-03-18 09:30:00 2023-03-18 13:30:00 Australia/Sydney Teacher Vitality Day Hobart: 18 March. JOIN US FOR THIS FREE AND ENERGISING EVENT.

  18. Material Sound performances

    Material Sound performances. Summary. Plimsoll Gallery presents three of Australia’s leading contemporary artists performing with their work. Start Date. June 19, 2021 5:00 pm. End Date. June 19, 2021 8:00 pm. Venue. Plimsoll Gallery. Plimsoll

  19. The HealthCOPE group - College of Health and Medicine

    https://www.utas.edu.au/health/research/groups/psychological-sciences/the-healthcope-group
    30 May 2023: The HealthCOPE group. To develop innovative interventions and models of health care delivery to assist patients and the people close to them to cope with chronic diseases and stressful life events. Our multidisciplinary brings together experts from

  20. Education technology and learning science - HITLab Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/hitlab/projects/education-technology-and-learning-science
    1 May 2018: Education technology and learning science. Using hand/finger gesture controlled technology to enhance the learning experience of chemistry students. Developing a new application to build and interact with chemistry models will enhance the learning
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    Scholarships A-Z - College of Arts, Law and Education Honours Access …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/domestic-scholarships/a-z?code=SCH_CALE
    6 Jun 2024: A number of access scholarships are available to students experiencing. . .
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    Scholarships A-Z - Medicine Elective Scholarships

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/domestic-scholarships/a-z?code=SCH_UMES
    6 Jun 2024: Elective scholarships for students studying in the College of Health a. . .
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    Scholarships A-Z - University of Tasmania Agriculture Scholarships

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/domestic-scholarships/a-z?code=SCH_AGUM
    6 Jun 2024: Agriculture Scholarships are made possible through the generous suppor. . .
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    Scholarships A-Z - Prof. Dennis Pashen Rural Medicine Scholarship

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/domestic-scholarships/a-z?code=SCH_DPRM
    6 Jun 2024: The University of Tasmania’s Rural Clinical School has established thi. . .
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    Scholarships A-Z - University of Tasmania Indigenous Scholarships

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/scholarships-fees-and-costs/domestic-scholarships/a-z?code=SCH_ISUM
    6 Jun 2024: These Indigenous Scholarships are made possible through the generous s. . .

  26. Climate Risk - Built, Digital and Natural Environments

    https://www.utas.edu.au/built-digital-natural/geography-and-spatial-sciences/research/climate-risk
    15 Jun 2022: Climate Risk. Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences Research Theme. Overview. Human induced climate change is arguably the most serious problem currently facing our planet. Tackling this challenge requires detection of change and attribution to

  27. Facilitating Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) between hospital and…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/umore/assets/research/health-informatics/2003/medesupport
    2 May 2018: University of Tasmania web page

  28. Aboriginal missions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Aboriginal%20missions.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Aboriginal Missions. Cape Barren Islanders (AOT, PH30/1/6671). Tasmania is the only Australian state that has had no church-run mission settlements for Aborigines, although the churches did work in partnership with the government. At Wybalenna there

  29. Margaret Scott

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Scott%20M.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Margaret Scott. Margaret Daphne Scott (1934–2005), distinguished poet, novelist, academic and essayist, whose witty television and radio appearances have endeared her to nationwide audiences. From 1966 to 1989 her lectures inspired students in

  30. Anti-Transportation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Anti-transportation.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anti-Transportation (of convicts). A 'fettered felon', John Funt (AOT, PH30/1/3207). Why was the fettered felon sent. Thy balmy breath to taste? Thou shouldst receive the good, the free…. So around 1832 wrote Mary Leman Grimstone in her 'Van Diemen

  31. Independent Schools

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/Independent%20schools.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Independent Schools. Horton College at Ross, about 1880 (AOT, PH30/1/1142). Independent Schools (non-government, non-Catholic) existed to fill gaps in the government system, or provide perceived advantages – social, educational or religious. Their

  32. Herbert William Gepp

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/HW%20Gepp.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Herbert William Gepp. The newly built Zinc Works in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/7109). Herbert William Gepp (1877–1954), chemical and social engineer, born in Adelaide, began his career in industrial chemistry in 1893. From 1905 he worked for the 'Collins

  33. Risby Timber Company

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Risby%27s.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Risby Timber Company. Risby's timber yard in Battery Point, 1900. Secheron is in the background (AOT, PH30/1/4949). The Risby Timber Company until its demise in the mid-1990s was one of Australia's oldest family-run firms. Boat builders Thomas and

  34. El Niño–Southern Oscillation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/El%20Nino.htm
    25 Jun 2012: El Niño–Southern Oscillation. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have a profound impact across a wide global band and are now recognised as the main source of Australia's infamous droughts. Tasmania is the coolest and wettest of the

  35. Australian Football

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Australian%20football.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Australian Football. Huon Football Association team c 1920, (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Australian Football in the 'Sporting Island' has been the holiest of sporting religions for most of the last 150 years. 'Footy' has often been of primary
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    Fungicides and crop reproductive success

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/agriculture/fungicides-and-crop-reproductive-success
    5 Jun 2024: Fungicides and crop reproductive success. Investigate effects of fungicides on pollen viability and pollinator activity of vegetable seeds crops. Fungicides and crop reproductive success. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus.

  37. Mount Nelson Award Winner 2019

    https://www.utas.edu.au/built-digital-natural/news/ad/2019/mount-nelson-award-winner-2019
    2 Dec 2019 Mount Nelson Award Winner 2019. Master of Architecture student, Emily Hunt, has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Mount Nelson Award. Emily stood out from the crowd with her keen interest in both the academic and cultural aspects of

  38. Second World War

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Second%20world%20war.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Second World War. Military parade in Macquarie St, Hobart, in 1940 (AOT, PH30/1/3754). The Second World War made Tasmania more keenly aware of its geographical isolation, but it was also more insulated from the war's impact than most other parts of
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    HE online and blended student engagement

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/education/he-online-and-blended-student-engagement
    19 Jun 2024: HE online and blended student engagement. Supporting online and blended student engagement and experience in Higher Education. HE online and blended student engagement. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Launceston. Citizenship

  40. Thomas Gregson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Thomas%20Gregson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Gregson. Thomas Gregson (AOT, PH30/1/3744). Thomas George Gregson (1798–1874), politician, was born in Northumberland and migrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1821, establishing a farming property. As a leading protagonist for free settlers'

  41. Robert William Willson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Willson%20Bishop.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Robert William Willson. Sketch of St Joseph's Catholic Church in Hobart in 1844, the year Willson arrived (AOT, PH30/1/450). Robert William Willson (1794–1866), pioneer Catholic bishop and social worker, was ordained in England in 1824 and arrived

  42. The Friends' School

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Friends%20School.htm
    25 Jun 2012: The Friends' School. Clemes College 1890; it later amalgamated with The Friends School (AOT, PH30/1/1236). The Friends' School (1887–), established in Hobart by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), is one of the oldest co-educational

  43. Ragged School Movement

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Ragged%20schools.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ragged School Movement. The Ragged School in Cascade Road, later a Baptist church (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Ragged School Movement began in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in response to the needs of growing numbers of urban poor.

  44. Scotch Oakburn College

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Scotch%20Oakburn.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Scotch Oakburn College. Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston is a Uniting Church boarding and day school, Early Learning to Grade 12, formed in 1979 from the amalgamation of Oakburn College and Scotch College, and dedicated to providing a

  45. Treatment of Mental Illness

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mental%20Illness.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Treatment of Mental Illness. Henry Melville, 'Invalid Hospital, New Norfolk', 1833 (W. L. Crowther Library). Prior to 1827 the mentally ill were sent to New South Wales for management, but in that year they started to be incarcerated in a New Norfolk

  46. Edward Braddon

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Edward%20Braddon.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edward Braddon. Edward Braddon (AOT, PH30/1/296A). Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (1829–1904), politician, was born in Cornwall, England. After leaving school he moved to India in 1847 and worked in a cousin's merchant firm, after which he

  47. Douglas (Social) Credit

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Douglas%20Credit.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Douglas (Social) Credit. Edward Brooker, Douglas Credit enthusiast (AOT, PH30/1/3576). The Douglas (Social) Credit movement was inspired by the Scottish engineer, CH Douglas. He sought to maximise wealth by ensuring that there be as much credit

  48. Guilford Clyde Young

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Y/Young%20guilford.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Guilford Clyde Young. St Mary's Cathedral, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9076). Guilford Clyde Young (1916–88), Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, was a uniquely gifted churchman. Born in Brisbane, he was ordained in 1939, obtained a doctorate in theology, and,

  49. Building Stone

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Building%20stone.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Building Stone. Hobart's General Post Office in about 1900 (ALMFA, SLT). Tasmanian sandstones have been quarried and used to build many private and public buildings. Commonly, a small quarry was developed close to the chosen house site, such as the

  50. Essential Oils

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Essential%20oils.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Essential Oils. Essential Oils possess the characteristic odour of the plant from which they are extracted. In Tasmania they include peppermint, spearmint, boronia, parsley, fennel, dill, blackcurrant, hops, clary sage, mountain pepper and lavender.

  51. Honey Industry

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Honey%20industry.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Honey Industry. A bee on a leatherwood flower (R Stephens, Mole Creek). Tasmania is exceptional as the sole world producer of leatherwood honey, a high-quality honey with a unique flavour and aroma. Leatherwood grows solely in the pristine
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