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  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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'.
  11. Probus Clubs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Probus.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Probus Clubs. Probus members performing 'Growing Old Disgracefully' at Handclasp, the meeting of the thirty Probus clubs in southern Tasmania (Combined Probus Club of Jordan). Probus Clubs are a division of Rotary Clubs. They began in the United
  12. Rotary

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rotary.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rotary. The world-wide founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, being 'ambushed' by Hobart Rotary Club members, 1935. He had earlier commented that despite living in Chicago, notorious for its crime, he had never been held up. (Rotary Club of Hobart). Rotary
  13. Canals

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Canals.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Canals. 'Opening [of] Denison Canal', 1905 (ALMFA, SLT). The Denison Canal at Dunalley is the only purpose-built sea canal in Australia. Agitation by east coast settlers to improve transport by avoiding the longer, often rough voyage around Tasman
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    Research Scholarships - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/research/research-scholarships
    13 Jun 2019: Research Scholarships. Research Scholarships. AMC offers a range of scholarships for Higher Degree by Research candidates of exceptional research potential to AMC's unique research facilities. The selection criteria for these Scholarships are based
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    Social work knowledge in public health

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/social-sciences/social-work-knowledge-in-public-health
    11 Jul 2024: Social work knowledge in public health. The role and contribution of social work knowledge in advancing equity in public health research. Social work knowledge in public health. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Burnie, Hobart,
  16. Stephanie Jack: 混 hùn. Summary. An exploration of the changing understandings of life by 26 contemporary artists. Start Date. Sept 24, 2022. End Date. Oct 15, 2022. Venue. Plimsoll Gallery. Photo credit: Stephanie jack. Join us to celebrate 混
  17. Southern Tasmania Join us in conversation with Penny Miles (Arts Executive, & former ‘Night Time Mayor’ for City of Melbourne) as we discuss the impact that the cultural sector has in shaping the life of our cities and citizens.
  18. Domestic Student Fees Procedure Versions - Governance Instruments…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/policy/procedures/version-history/people/student-fees/domestic-student-fee-procedure-versions
    19 Aug 2024: Domestic Student Fees Procedure Versions. Version history. Version. Action. Approved by. Approval date. Business Owner. Approved. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Student Services and Operations). 4 August 2024. Executive Director Student Services. Manager
  19. Module Two: Foundation Algebra Skills - Mathematics Pathways

    https://www.utas.edu.au/mathematics-pathways/pathways-to-business/module-two-foundation-skills-basic-algebra
    17 Jul 2024: Module Two: Foundation Algebra Skills. Module 2 - Basic Algebra. Algebra is a type of mathematical shorthand consisting of symbols and signs. These algebraic symbols represent numbers that are not known, or represent unspecified numbers or
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    Western Australia - Australian Maritime College

    https://amc.edu.au/industry/omc/invigilator-search/western-australia
    29 Aug 2018: Western Australia. Western Australia. MSCE (SATCOM) Authorised Invigilators. Rhys Allen. TAFE WA Central Regional. rhys. allen@crtafe. wa. edu. au. BEACHLANDS WA 6530. James Armstrong. Marine Rescue Bunbury. 0407 830 389. jameslarmstrong07@gmail. com.
  21. Opening - Coursework Masters Exhibition. Summary. The Tasmanian School of Art presents its annual coursework masters exhibition. Start Date. Nov 18, 2011 5:30 pm. End Date. Nov 18, 2011 8:30 pm. Venue. Plimsoll Gallery, Hunter Street. RSVP / Contact
  22. - CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences

    https://www.utas.edu.au/codes/research-programs/program-4/subaerial-and-submarine-volc
    9 Jul 2020: 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. SUBAERIAL
  23. - CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences

    https://www.utas.edu.au/codes/research-programs/program-4/chalcophile-and-noble-metals
    9 Jul 2020: 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. MELT-FLUID
  24. Art Societies

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Art%20societies.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Art Societies. Art Societies featured in colonial Tasmanian culture after the 1843 visit to Hobart of British artist, John Skinner Prout. The first leader of an Australian art movement, he gave public lectures, tutored an active artist group and
  25. Jean Bellette

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Jean%20Bellette.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jean Bellette. Jean Mary Bellette (1909–91), artist, was born in Hobart and studied at the Hobart Technical College under Lucien Dechaineux. She was talented, versatile and imaginative, and eager to explore various methods of expressing her
  26. Sydney Blythe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Sydney%20Blythe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sydney Blythe. Ogilvie High School, about 1940 (AOT, PH30/1/554). Sydney Wallace Thomas Blythe (1905–85), architect and town planner. Blythe began his architectural education in England before moving to Tasmania in 1921, completing his studies at
  27. Marcus Clarke

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Marcus%20Clarke.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Marcus Clarke. Port Arthur in 1840 (AOT, NS1013/1/100). Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846–81), writer, briefly visited Tasmania in 1870 at the request of the Argus to experience at first hand the settings of articles he was writing on the convict
  28. Esmond Dorney

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Esmond%20Dorney.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Esmond Dorney. James Henry Esmond Dorney (1906–91), architect. Dorney, usually referred to as Esmond, was a highly original figure in post-Second World War Tasmanian architecture. Born in Melbourne, he worked with the legendary Walter Burley
  29. Geoffrey Dyer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Geoffrey%20Dyer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Geoffrey Dyer. Geoffrey Quentin Dyer (b 1947), artist, was born in Hobart. Selected eight times as a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize, he won this in 2003 with his portrait of author Richard Flanagan. Dyer has also been a finalist in the
  30. Stephen Edgar

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Stephen%20Edgar.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stephen Edgar. Stephen John Edgar (b 1951), poet, was born in Sydney but moved to Hobart, where he graduated in Classics at the University of Tasmania. He has published five volumes of verse, most recently Corrupted treasures (1995), Where the trees
  31. Henry Gritten

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Henry%20Gritten.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Gritten. Henry Gritten, 'Sunnyside Hobarton', undated (ALMFA, SLT). Henry Gritten (1818–73), painter and photographer. When he arrived in Melbourne in 1853, he had been an established painter in London and had exhibited in New York.
  32. Anton Holzner

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Anton%20Holzner.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anton Holzner. A Painters Celebration, 2005. Anton Holzner (b 1935), artist. His concern is the articulation of paint on canvas to create an imaginary spatial reality beyond the visible and material world we occupy. Vigorous painterliness and tonal
  33. David Keeling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/David%20Keeling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Keeling. David Mervyn Keeling (b 1951) artist, has won recognition for his landscapes, which have become a powerful voice in the development versus conservation debate, especially within the Tasmanian context. Keeling acknowledges a debt to
  34. Amanda Howard

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Amanda%20Lohrey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Amanda Lohrey. Amanda Lilian Lohrey (née Howard, 1947), writer and teacher of writing, was born and educated in Hobart and Cambridge University. She has taught creative writing, guest-edited Island magazine in 1994, and has published short fiction,
  35. James McAuley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/James%20McAuley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James McAuley. James Phillip McAuley (1917–76), poet, critic, academic, founding editor of Quadrant, was born at Lakemba, New South Wales, and educated at the University of Sydney. After war service, he lectured at the Australian School of Pacific
  36. Graeme Murphy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Graeme%20Murphy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Graeme Murphy. Graeme Murphy AM (b 1950), Australia's greatest and most productive choreographer, has been Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company since 1976. Born in Melbourne, he was educated in Launceston where he studied ballet with
  37. Edward Abbott

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abbott%20Edward.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edward Abbott. Silhouette of Edward Abbott (Parliament of Tasmania). Edward Abbott (1801–69), writer, was the eldest son of Edward Abbott (Deputy Judge Advocate 1815–25 and Civil Commandant of Launceston 1825–32). Founder in 1839 of the Hobart
  38. Archer Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Archer%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Archer Family. Woolmers in 1919 (ALMFA, SLT). Four sons of Hertfordshire miller, William Archer (1754–1833), established themselves in Van Diemen's Land. Thomas Archer MLC (1790–1850), arrived in Sydney in 1812. Appointed to the Commissariat
  39. Matthew Brady

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Matthew%20Brady.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Matthew Brady. James McCabe, Matthew Brady and Patrick Bryant, 1826 (AOT, PH30/1/4144). Matthew Brady (1799–1826), bushranger, was born of Irish parents in England, and in 1820 was transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing. In 1822 he was sent
  40. Charles Davis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Charles%20Davis.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Charles Davis. Charles Davis' Hobart shop, c 1887 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Charles Davis (1824–1913), convict, transported for theft, on his release in 1847 began an ironmongery business in Hobart. An excellent businessman, he presided over
  41. Henry Hellyer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Henry%20Hellyer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Hellyer. The Mersey River: difficult terrain for a surveyor (AOT, PH30/1/2224). Henry Hellyer (1790–1832), explorer and surveyor, was one of the first officers of the Van Diemen's Land Company, the principal explorer of north-western Tasmania
  42. Henry Hopkins

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Henry%20Hopkins.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Hopkins. Henry Hopkins with his family at his residence, Summerhome, Moonah (AOT PH30/1/5461). Henry Hopkins (1787–1870), businessman and philanthropist, was a woolclasser before emigrating from England in 1822 with his wife Sarah and his
  43. Miller Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Miller%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Miller Family. Brisbane Street Chapel, taken in 1905 when it was the hall for the newer Congregational church left (AOT, PH30/1/3697). Frederick Miller (1808–62) was born in London and was ordained in the Congregational church. In response to
  44. Thomas Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Thomas%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Family. Jocelyn Henry Connor Thomas (1780–1862) and his brother Captain Bartholomew Boyle Thomas (1785–1831) were Anglo–Irish gentry who emigrated after a land-reclamation venture failed. Jocelyn arrived in 1824. He acquired Everton at
  45. George Washington Walker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walker%20George.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Washington Walker. George Washington Walker (AOT, PH30/1/4131). George Washington Walker (1800–59), missionary and businessman, was an English Quaker who in 1828 answered a call from James Backhouse to be his secretary-companion on a
  46. George Brooks

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/George%20Brooks.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Brooks. George Vickery Brooks (1877–1956), Tasmanian Director of Education from 1920 until 1945. Despite economic difficulties, Brooks and his senior officers successfully introduced many ideas for which Tasmanian education became known.
  47. Town Planning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Town%20planning.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Town Planning. Town planning, the conscious intervention by government into the orderly growth of urban centres, aims to improve health, ensure efficient land use, protect the environment and facilitate economic development. Town planning began in
  48. Newton Barber

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Newton%20Barber.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Newton Barber. Horace Newton Barber (1914–71), botanist (PhD London, Doctor of Science Cambridge, FRS, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science), was foundation Professor of Botany at the University of Tasmania from 1947 to 1963. Tall (over 2
  49. Kenneth Binns

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Kenneth%20Binns.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kenneth Binns. Kenneth Binns (left) as a member of the Tasmanian Industrial Mission to Britain, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3601). Kenneth Johnstone Binns (1912–1987), economist, was born in New South Wales, and studied at Melbourne University and Harvard.
  50. Victor Burley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Victor%20Burley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Victor Burley. Up-to-date new machinery at Cadbury in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9055). Victor George Burley (1914–2002), engineer, was one of Tasmania's most celebrated engineers, and will be remembered for his contributions to the development of science
  51. Stephen Cheek

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Stephen%20Cheek.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stephen Cheek. Stephen Cheek (1853–82), rural evangelist. His Congregationalist parents arrived in Tasmania in 1855, eventually settling at Rosevale. Around 1876, Cheek became convinced of the need for adult baptism. He was baptised by the
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