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  2. Vivian Smith

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smith%20vivian.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Vivian Smith. Vivian Brian Smith (b 1933), poet, academic, essayist, was born and grew up in Hobart. He graduated from the University of Tasmania and lectured in the English Department of the University of Sydney. A gifted teacher and editor, he

  3. Peter Taylor

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Taylor%20peter.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Peter Taylor. Peter Lawrence Taylor (b 1927), artist, was born in Sydney and studied Art at East Sydney Technical College. He arrived in Tasmania in 1948, and was awarded the Tasmanian Sculpture Prize in 1950. He taught art at Huonville High School,

  4. Michael Howe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Michael%20Howe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Michael Howe. Michael Howe (1787–1818), bushranger, born in Yorkshire, became a sailor then a highwayman and was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1812. He soon absconded and joined a gang of bushrangers. In 1814 Governor Macquarie promised a

  5. John Montagu

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/John%20Montagu.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Montagu. John Montagu (1797–1853), Colonial Secretary of Van Diemen's Land from 1834 to 1842, was a competent and assiduous colonial administrator who took a particular interest in the improvement of convict discipline. With a vast experience

  6. Frederick Matthias Alexander

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/FM%20Alexander.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frederick Matthias Alexander. Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) originated the Alexander technique, which seeks to maximise human health and potential through muscular re-education. A blacksmith's son, Alexander was born on Table Cape and

  7. Ernest Clark

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Ernest%20Clark.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ernest Clark. Sir Ernest and Lady Clark inspecting a guard of honour at the Royal Hobart Hospital, 1940 (AOT, PH30/1/9892). Ernest Clark (1864–1951), governor, was born in England, and became a lawyer. His distinguished career in the civil service

  8. Henry Dobson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Henry%20Dobson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Dobson. The Dobson family in a carriage outside their home in South Hobart (AOT, PH30/1/9807). Henry Dobson (1841–1918), lawyer and politician, was born in Hobart. Following in his father's footsteps, he was called to the Tasmanian Bar in

  9. Public Administration

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Public%20admin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Public Administration. Public Administration in Tasmania began when civil officials were organised in Sydney and London for the three settlements established in 1803 and 1804. The largest settlement, at Hobart in February 1804, contained officers

  10. Bill Barwick

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bill%20Barwick.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bill Barwick. Ernest William (Bill) Barwick MBE (1905–97), athlete, was born in Cleveland, and in 1933 held every Tasmanian distance record from 800 yards to 15 miles. He specialised in the mile, and at the 1932 national championships in Melbourne,

  11. Alfred Biggs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Alfred%20Biggs.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Alfred Biggs. Alfred Biggs (AOT, PH30/1/2892). Alfred Barratt Biggs (1825–1900), telephoner and astronomer, is credited with making the first long distance telephone call in Australia in 1877, between Campbell Town and Launceston. A teacher by

  12. Warren Carey

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Warren%20Carey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Warren Carey. Samuel Warren Carey AO, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1911–2002), geologist. Graduating from the University of Sydney with a DSc in 1934, after distinguished careers as petroleum geologist in Papua New Guinea and

  13. Emily Dobson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Emily%20Dobson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Emily Dobson. The Dobson family in their garden with tennis equipment, 1888 (AOT, PH30/1/9822). Emily Dobson (née Lemprière, 1842–1934), philanthropist. Married to Premier Henry Dobson, she was a formidable person and one of the first publicly

  14. Charles Eady

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Charles%20Eady.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Charles Eady. Charles Eady (AOT, PH30/1/2215/2). Charles John Eady (1870–1945), cricketer, played in and for Tasmania between 1890 and 1908, batting aggressively and bowling quickly with equal effectiveness. In 1895 he became the first Australian

  15. David Foster

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/David%20Foster.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Foster. David George Foster (b 1957), axeman, born in Hobart, is the first person in sporting history to have won over one thousand championships and is the most successful axeman in the history of the sport of woodchopping. His record

  16. Harold Gatty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Harold%20Gatty.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Harold Gatty. Harold Garry and Wiley Post after their record-breaking flight (Online Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 9 Nov 2006. Harold Charles Gatty (1903–57), air navigator, was born at Campbell Town and apprenticed as a ship's

  17. Lindy Goggin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Lindy%20Goggin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lindy Goggin. Lindsey Gaye (Lindy) Goggin (b 1949), golfer, was born in Launceston. From the age of twenty, Lindy played off scratch and became the lowest handicapped golfer in the world in 1976, playing from plus four. Her record marks her as the

  18. Peter Hudson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Peter%20Hudson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Peter Hudson. Peter John Hudson (b 1946), footballer, was born at New Norfolk. His tally of 469 goals over four seasons in Tasmania attracted huge media attention when he made his 1967 VFL debut with Hawthorn. Arguably the greatest full-forward of

  19. Allan Knight

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Allan%20Knight.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Allan Knight. Allan Knight (AOT, PH30/1/3598). Allan Walton Knight (1910–98), one of Australia's outstanding engineers. Born in Launceston, a brilliant student who excelled at sport, he graduated from the University of Tasmania in Science and

  20. Merle Oberon

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Merle%20Oberon.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Merle Oberon. Merle Oberon (c 1911–79), film star, appeared on the cover of the Weekly Courier, 28 June 1934 as 'Tasmania's Own Screen Star', an accompanying article claiming she was the daughter of Irish and French parents and was taken by an

  21. Chung Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Chung%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Chung Family. Willie Chung Sing arrived in Tasmania from China in 1890 to work in the Derby tin mines. When work ran out, he moved to Hobart and started to grow vegetables. In 1923 he returned to China and brought back his three sons, and they ran a

  22. Small-Fruits

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Small%20fruits.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Small-Fruits. Many crops of small fruits were grown on the slopes of the Collinsvale hills (AOT, PH30/1/1785). From 1806 the Rev Robert Knopwood reported that gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries and 'English currents' were grown in the

  23. Oral History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oral%20history.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oral History. Oral History has been used for imparting historical knowledge for thousands of years. In Tasmania Aboriginal people certainly imparted knowledge to their children by word of mouth. Indeed most Tasmanians can point to family lore handed
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    Emergency Response Centre - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/facilities/emergency-response-centre
    5 Sep 2023: Emergency Response Centre. Emergency Response Centre. Providing the training that could one day mean the difference between life and death. Survival Centre. Learn how to keep a cool head under pressure. Combining a heated pool and mock ship's

  25. Genetic Discrimination - Centre for Law and Genetics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/law-and-genetics/research-and-projects/genetic-discrimination-project
    22 Nov 2023: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Centre for Law and Genetics. Genetic Discrimination. The Genetic

  26. Wilson and Sons

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wilson%20shipbuilders.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wilson and Sons. The schooner Evaleeta at Port Cygnet. She was built by Walter Wilson in 1923 for the timber trade. (AOT, PH30/1/1288). Wilson and Sons, shipbuilders, was founded by John Wilson (1842–1912), who began building wooden boats in 1863,
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    The winners and losers of disturbance

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/biological-sciences/the-winners-and-losers-of-disturbance
    21 Aug 2024: The winners and losers of disturbance. The winners and losers of changing disturbance regimes: can plant mutualist strategy predict their response to disturbance? The winners and losers of disturbance. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024.
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    Aquaculture and the Circular Economy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/marine-and-antarctic/aquaculture-and-the-circular-economy
    24 Oct 2024: Aquaculture and the Circular Economy. Aquaculture and the Circular Economy: A Case Study from Tasmania to Provide a Better Understanding of the Potential Role of Government in Sustainable Development. Aquaculture and the Circular Economy. Degree

  29. Children's Homes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Children%27s%20Homes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Children's Homes. St John's church and the King's Orphan Schools, 1831(Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Children's Homes for the orphaned, destitute and neglected children of Van Diemen's Land began in 1828 with the establishment of the 'somewhat Dickensian
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    Spotlight on: Band Syllabus

    https://www.utas.edu.au/australian-music-examinations-board/ameb-news-and-events/ameb/spotlights/spotlight-on-band-syllabus
    8 Nov 2024 Spotlight on: Band Syllabus. Of all our syllabuses, the Band Syllabus is probably one with the widest scope to include a variety of instruments. It aims to support any brass band instrument, and is therefore split into B. b. , E. b. , and C
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    News Updates - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/industry/amateur-radio/news-updates
    14 Dec 2023: News Updates. News Updates. Amateur Radio. Current News. December 2023. Christmas/New Year Operating Hours. The office will be closing at 12 Noon on Friday 23 December and reopening 9. 00 am Tuesday 2 January 2024. Previous News. Christmas/New Year
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    Managing and Regulating food safety risks in Bivalve Shellfish

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/managing-and-regulating-food-safety-risks-in-bivalve-shellfish
    3 Oct 2024: A course aimed at shellfish regulators, covering key aspects to ensure appropriate control over the production of safe bivalve shellfish.

  33. XFactor Interviews HITLab AU

    https://www.utas.edu.au/hitlab/news-and-events/news/xfactor-interviews-hitlab-au
    2 May 2018 XFactor Interviews HITLab AU. The Youth X-Factor Project interviewed HITLab Director, Professor Henry Duh, talking the opportunities and resources especially in ICT domain in the State. He highlighted the unique education program and research topics

  34. TasOPCAT Network - Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/tiles/research/research-streams/law-enforcement-and-public-health/tasopcat-network
    21 Aug 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. Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES).
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    Shipboard Safety Skill Set - MARSS00008 - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/study/coastal/vet/shipboard-safety-skill-set-marss00008
    14 Sep 2024: Shipboard Safety Skill Set - MARSS00008. Shipboard Safety Skill Set. Course Name. Shipboard Safety Skill Set. Course Code. MARSS00008. Location. Newnham Campus, Launceston. Duration. 2 days. Course Fees. $550. 00. Intake 1. 2025 dates to be announced
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    Marine heatwaves impact on sea urchin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/marine-and-antarctic/marine-heatwaves-impact-on-sea-urchin
    15 Oct 2024: Marine heatwaves impact on sea urchin. Impact of marine heatwaves on larval survival and connectivity of the long-spined sea urchin around east Tasmania. Marine heatwaves impact on sea urchin. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 December 2024. Campus.

  37. Walyer 1

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walyer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Walyer. Walyer (Tarenorerer, Waloa, Walloa), (c 1800–31) Aboriginal resistance fighter. Tarenorerer, a young Tomeginee woman, known as Walyer by the sealers, became a resistance fighter in 1828. She gathered an army of other disenchanted

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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'.
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