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  2. Topics beginning with Z

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Images/Z%20list.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Topics beginning with Z. Copyright 2006, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies.
  3. Anatomy Act

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Anatomy%20Act.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anatomy Act. The Anatomy Act (An Act for regulating the Practice of Anatomy, 1869) was precipitated by the disclosure that bodies had been 'mutilated' by medical men in Hobart's General Hospital. Two surgeons had engaged in a competitive quest to
  4. Oyster Cove

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oyster%20Cove.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oyster Cove. Aborigines at Oyster Cove, photographed by Bishop Nixon, 1858 (W. L. Crowther Library). In 1847, 47 Tasmanian Aboriginal people incarcerated for fifteen years at Wybalenna on Flinders Island arrived to take up forced residency at Oyster
  5. Carmel Bird

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Carmel%20Bird.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Carmel Bird. Carmel Bird (née Janice Maureen Power, 1940), one of Tasmania's most published and best-known contemporary writers of fiction, non-fiction and multimedia. She was born in Launceston, educated at the University of Tasmania and currently
  6. Gary Cleveland

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/G%20Cleveland.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gary Cleveland. Gary Cleveland (b 1930), design entrepreneur and one of the major promoters of design in Tasmania, was born in St Louis, Missouri USA. After working as a textile designer in Queensland and Britain, he was appointed as managing
  7. Noel Norman

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Noel%20Norman.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Noel Norman. Noel Wilson Norman (1901–81), writer, was born of parents with long, upper-class Tasmanian antecedents. The rebellious youth's crucial experience was to travel into outback Australia in 1917. He returned thither often in fact, and
  8. Rosny Children's Choir

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rosny%20choir.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rosny Children's Choir. The Rosny Children's Choir started when Jennifer Filby, a music teacher in Rosny, had her pupils sing carols at their end-of-year recital. She was asked to provide a chorus for a musical, and the Rosny Children's Choir was
  9. Alan Cameron Walker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walker%20Alan.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Alan Cameron Walker. Hobart General Post Office and tower, 1906 (AOT, PH30/1/4023). Alan Cameron Walker (1865–1931), architect and craftsman. Walker carried on the tradition of the gentleman architect, active in the arts and community affairs.
  10. Lady Nelson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lady%20Nelson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lady Nelson. Lady Nelson on the Thames in England (AOT, PH30/1/1137). Lady Nelson was launched in England in 1798, and arrived in Sydney in 1800. She helped transport Bowen's party to Risdon in 1803, charted the Tamar in 1804, and later that year
  11. Patriotic Six

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Patriotic%206.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Patriotic Six. Charles Swanston, a member of the Patriotic Six (AOT, PH30/1/5140). The Patriotic Six, comprising legislative councillors Charles Swanston, Michael Fenton, John Kerr, William Kermode, Thomas Gregson and Richard Dry, resigned their
  12. Rajah Quilt

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rajah%20quilt.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rajah Quilt. The Rajah Quilt is the only known surviving convict shipboard quilt. Itwas made by female transportees aboard the ship Rajah on the 105-day voyage from England to Hobart Town. The Rajah embarked from Woolwich on 5 April 1841, and 179
  13. St Patrick's College

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/St%20Patricks.htm
    25 Jun 2012: St Patrick's College. St Patrick's College, Launceston, evolved from a threefold Catholic tradition beginning with the opening of Sacred Heart College by the Presentation Sisters in 1873. The Christian Brothers opened St Patrick's College in York
  14. Place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jones%20Lloyd.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lloyd Jones. Lloyd Lindsay Jones MBE (1916–2004), aviator, photographer, visionary, adventurer, was a member of 92 and 93 Beaufighter Squadrons during the Second World War. The first aviator to take aerial photographs of the magnificent rugged
  15. George Town

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/George%20Town.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Town. FR Nixon, 'George Town', 1857 (ALMFA, SLT). George Town was first settled in November 1804 when Paterson's party arrived in the north and established a base at Outer Cove. In 1805 most moved to the western side of the Tamar, and by 1811
  16. Lake Pedder

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lake%20Pedder.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lake Pedder. George Collingridge and WC Piguenit, 'Lake Pedder', 1888 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Lake Pedder in south-western Tasmania was a beautiful, isolated lake formed about 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. The shallow, nine square
  17. Place Names

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Place%20names.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Place Names. An example of an Aboriginal place name: Ringarooma, undated (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Tasmania is blessed with some fascinating descriptive place names like Horrible Hollow Hill, Mouldy Hole, Stinking Creek, Humbug Point, Haunted Bay,
  18. Port Sorell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Port%20Sorell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Port Sorell. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Badger Head, and the Sister Islands, from Poyston, Port Sorell', 1852 (ALMFA, SLT). Port Sorell was the home of the Punnilerpanner band of Tasmanians, with midden sites up to 4000 years old. The Rubicon river
  19. Lyne Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lyne%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lyne Family. The Lyne family, William, Sarah and five children, arrived in Hobart in 1826, and received a 1500-acre land grant on the east coast, named Apsley (later Apslawn). Gradually their stock of sheep and cattle increased, despite problems
  20. Gale Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gale%20Family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gale Family. Building the first road to Marrawah (AOT, PH30/1/1552). Aaron and Elizabeth Gale with four adolescent children arrived from Hampshire on the Coromandel in 1853. All obtained short-term positions immediately, and by 1856 were living at
  21. Blythe Star

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Blythe%20Star.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Blythe Star. Blythe Star, steel motor vessel of 321 tons gross, sailed from Hobart for King Island under charter to the Tasmanian Transport Commission on 12 October 1973 but failed to arrive. After the most extensive air and sea search conducted in
  22. Brier Holme

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Brier%20Holme.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Brier Holme. Oscar Larsen, the sole survivor (AOT, PH30/1/4129). Brier Holme, iron barque 921 tons, sailed from London for Hobart on 21 July 1904, but failed to arrive. In January 1905 wreckage from the vessel was found near Port Davey on the west
  23. Sydney Cove

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sydney%20Cove.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sydney Cove. Sydney Cove, a merchant ship, was wrecked at Preservation Island, in the Furneaux Group, on 9 February 1797, while carrying a speculative cargo from Calcutta to Port Jackson, New South Wales. In the aftermath of the wreck, including
  24. Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH) | Menzies…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/menzies/research/prevention-health-services-wellbeing/childhood-determinants-of-adult-health-study
    3 Sep 2024: Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH). Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study (CDAH). The CDAH study is a cohort study with follow-up of 8,498 children who participated in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey
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    Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening | Tasmanian Institute of …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/tia/research/research-projects/project/horticulture/heat-stress-during-strawberry-fruit-ripening
    31 Oct 2024: Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening. Heat stress during strawberry fruit ripening. Project details. Status: Current. Project team. Lead:. Team:. Funding and partners. Funding:. Hort Innovation - Frontiers. ‘Sustainably growing
  26. Killiecrankie Diamond

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Killiecrankie%20Diamond.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Killiecrankie Diamond. Killiecrankie Bay, 1955 (AOT, PH30/1/1211/3). Killiecrankie Diamond is a misnomer for gem-quality topaz pebbles found at Killiecrankie Bay, Flinders Island. The topaz from this site was probably one of the earliest gems or
  27. Environmental History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Environmental%20history.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Environmental History. AS Murray, 'Huon Belle', 1900 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Differing attitudes to land use, largely a product of individual experience, contemporary ideology and political-economic conditions, have been central to Tasmanian
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    Optimising Active Learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/information-and-communication-technology/optimising-active-learning
    24 May 2024: Optimising Active Learning. Optimising Active Learning for Efficient Data Annotation. Optimising Active Learning. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Hobart. Citizenship requirement. Domestic / International. About the research
  29. Cape Grim Massacre

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cape%20Grim%20Massacre.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cape Grim Massacre. The massacre took place just north of the present day Cape Grim, adjacent to two small islands called the Doughboys. It was a result of violence initiated by the Van Diemen's Land Company. In December 1827, Aborigines were killed
  30. Study of Economics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Study%20of%20Economics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Study of Economics. The distant spectator will take Tasmanian economics to be an ox-bow lake of the great stream of economic thought. The truer observer would compare it to an ephemeral river, episodically spilling fast and strong into the main
  31. Hobart Gas Company

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hobart%20Gas%20Company.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hobart Gas Company. Gas lighting in Macquarie Street, Hobart, 1878 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Hobart Gas Company was formed in 1854 to establish a gasworks to lighten the city streets. Technological apparatus and skilled workers were imported
  32. Working Men's Clubs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Working%20mens%20clubs.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Working Men's Clubs. WA Guesdon, a benefactor of working men's clubs (AOT, PH30/1/4738). Working Men's Clubs originated in England where in the early nineteenth century middle-class missionaries preached rational recreation to the working classes
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    Biology: Marine Plastic Pollution

    https://www.utas.edu.au/community-and-partners/schools/teaching-resources/biology-marine-plastic-pollution
    7 Mar 2024: Biology: Marine Plastic Pollution. Biology: Marine Plastic Pollution. Learn about your plastic footprint with Dr Heidi Auman. Dr Heidi Auman is a Tasmanian researcher who studies human impacts on seabirds. To share her passion for conservation with
  34. Bass Strait Passenger Ships

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bass%20Strait%20passenger%20ships.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bass Strait Passenger Ships. Loongana on the Tamar River, 1900 (AOT, PH30/1/661). Bass Strait passenger ships have necessarily been good 'sea boats'. They ranged in tonnage from the 776-ton Coogee of 1890 to the 31,350-ton Spirit of Tasmania of 1993.
  35. The Eri Group - Cell Stress, Inflammation and Immunity - College of…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/health/research/groups/health-sciences/cell-stress,-inflammation-and-immunity
    7 Feb 2024: The Eri Group - Cell Stress, Inflammation and Immunity. Developing treatment strategies for reducing chronic inflammation in intestinal and neurogenerative disorders due to cellular stress. The major research aim of Cell Stress, Inflammation and
  36. Acclimatisation of Plants

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Acclimatisation%20of%20plants.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Acclimatisation of Plants. A European orchard in Hobart, 1869 (ALMFA, SLT). Acclimatisation is defined as adapting to new surroundings. Weeds are any non-native plant species, introduced either deliberately or accidentally, that have become
  37. Engineers and Engineering

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Engineers%20and%20engineering.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Engineers and Engineering. Zeehan's main street, showing telegraph poles and street lights as instances of engineering (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The development of Tasmania's ports, municipal services, roads andhydro- electric power and major
  38. Indigenous cultural and intellectual property - Governance…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/policy/policy-definitions/definitions/indigenous-cultural-and-intellectual-property
    18 Oct 2021: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. Refers to all aspects (both tangible and intangible) of Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage, the nature and use of which has been transmitted or continues to be transmitted from generation to
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    Girls in Action Sports Project (GASP) | Menzies Institute for Medical …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/menzies/research/prevention-health-services-wellbeing/girls-in-action-sports-project-gasp
    3 Sep 2024: GASP was designed to better understand the enablers and barriers to girls engaging in male dominated action sports (mountain biking, skateboarding and surfing) with a view to providing more opportunities for girls to be physically active.
  40. West Park Campus - Campus Services Resources

    https://www.utas.edu.au/infrastructure-services-development/building-works/projects/west-park-campus
    24 Nov 2022: West Park Campus. The University of Tasmania has built a new $50 million campus in Burnie as part of the Northern Transformation Program. This once-in-a-generation project aims to improve educational outcomes by providing increased access to
  41. PROMISe II - UMORE - Pharmacy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/umore/assets/research/quality-use-of-medicines/2005/promise-ii
    2 May 2018: University of Tasmania web page
  42. DIGnity Supported Community Gardening

    https://www.utas.edu.au/rural-health/news-all/news-items/dignity-supported-community-gardening
    9 Sep 2021 DIGnity Supported Community Gardening. Share on:. Share this article on Facebook Share this article on LinkedIn Share this article on Twitter. Published on: 01 Aug 2017 8:47am.
  43. 7.1 Data and Information Governance Policy - Governance Instruments…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/policy/policies/7-representation,-information-and-information-management/7.1-Data-and-Information-Governance-Policy
    4 Jul 2024: 7. 1 Data and Information Governance Policy. Data and Information Governance Policy. Purpose:. Effective management of information and cyber security enables the strategic objectives of the University to be met while managing risks and protecting
  44. Choral Music

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Choral%20music.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Choral Music. Choir from St Margaret's school, Devonport, which won the Devonport Competition in 1926 (AOT, PH30/1/9583). Choral Music was an early feature of musical life in all the Australian colonies, the consequence of the ready availability of
  45. Stephen Lees

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Stephen%20Lees.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stephen Lees. Stephen Charles Lees (b 1954), artist, born in Sydney, studied painting at the National Art School, graduating in a cultural climate that proclaimed painting 'dead'. Working and teaching in Tasmania from 1976, he joined the first
  46. Thomas James Lempriere

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/TJ%20Lempriere.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas James Lempriere. Lempriere's sketch of Macquarie Harbour, 1830 (AOT, PH30/1/376). Thomas James Lempriere (1796–1852), commissariat officer, was a member of an old Jersey family dating back thousands of years. His mother and banker father
  47. Maria Island

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Maria%20Island.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Maria Island. Maria Island prison, c 1890 (ALMFA, SLT). Maria Island on the east coast of Van Diemen's Land operated as a penal station between 1825 and 1832. The settlement, which was located at Darlington, was conceived as a half-way house between
  48. Fahan School

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fahan%20School.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fahan School. Two Australian educators, Audrey Morphett and Isobel Travers, founded Fahan School in Hobart as an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, wanting to provide an education which would enable girls to have an
  49. Colombo Plan

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Colombo%20Plan.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Colombo Plan. The Colombo Plan was a post-colonial initiative launched in 1951, initially by seven Commonwealth nations, to boost Asian economic and social development through economic and technical assistance. One of eight Australian institutions
  50. John Simeon Elkington

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/JS%20Elkington.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Simeon Elkington. Soon to have their health checked: children of the Triabunna School (AOT, PH30/1/7406). John Simeon Colebrook Elkington (1871–1955), public health advocate, was born in Castlemaine, Victoria. After studying medicine, he was
  51. Adye Douglas

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Adye%20Douglas.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Adye Douglas. The Launceston residence of Adye Douglas (AOT, PH30/1/10). Adye Douglas (1815–1906), lawyer and politician, was born in England. He emigrated to Launceston in 1839 and practised law for many years, in 1861 founding the firm of
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