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  2. Thumbnail for Study quantifies devils’ decline due  to facial tumour disease

    Study quantifies devils’ decline due to facial tumour disease

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1116-study-quantifies-devils-decline-due-to-facial-tumour-disease
    4 Mar 2021: New research from the University of Tasmania has estimated the toll a deadly facial cancer has taken on Tasmanian devil populations since the disease was discovered in 1996. In a paper published in Ecology Letters, researchers traced the spread of
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    Pink handfish seen for the first time in 22 years

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1191-pink-handfish-seen-for-the-first-time-in-22-years
    23 Dec 2021: A team of scientists is unlocking the secrets of Tasmania’s deep with a surprise sighting of the very rare and threatened pink handfish (Brachiopsilus dianthus). A detailed joint survey with Parks Australia and the University of Tasmania showed the
  4. Thumbnail for Without more scientists, Australia's $80B ‘blue economy’ is at risk

    Without more scientists, Australia's $80B ‘blue economy’ is at…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1184-without-more-scientists-australias-80b-blue-economy-is-at-risk
    25 Nov 2021: Australia is a marine nation. First Nations people have deep and unbroken connections to sea, 85% of us live within 50km of the coast, and our ocean territory is twice that of our land mass. A large part of our economy – the “blue economy” –
  5. Thumbnail for A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1135-a-belgian-farmer-moved-a-rock-and-accidentally-annexed-france
    12 May 2021: This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path. This stone marked the boundary between Belgium and France. By moving it 2. 29 metres, he expanded Belgium’s
  6. Thumbnail for Antarctica and the ties that bind

    Antarctica and the ties that bind

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1187-antarctica-and-the-ties-that-bind
    1 Dec 2021: The recent arrival of the impressive new icebreaker RSV Nuyina to Hobart’s port is a reminder of the city’s strong connections to the south and long history of welcoming polar vessels. As one of only five Antarctic ‘gateways’, our city has an
  7. Thumbnail for How a biography brought me to family history

    How a biography brought me to family history

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1142-how-a-biography-brought-me-to-family-history
    11 Jun 2021: Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article may contain the names and images of people who are now deceased. Back in the early 2000s, the Australian Dictionary of Biography decided to prepare a supplement
  8. Thumbnail for How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1138-how-early-australian-settlers-drew-maps-to-erase-indigenous-people
    31 May 2021: The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone opens with cartographer Alina Starkov crammed into the back of a rumbling wagon, sketching a war-torn landscape. A flashback to her childhood in an orphanage shows her looking at a map of a conflict zone. A
  9. Thumbnail for Black Summer fire smoke created an algal bloom bigger than Australia

    Black Summer fire smoke created an algal bloom bigger than Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1166-black-summer-fire-smoke-created-an-algal-bloom-bigger-than-australia
    17 Sep 2021: In 2019 and 2020, bushfires razed more than 18 million hectares of land in Australia. For weeks, smoke choked major cities, leading to almost 450 deaths, and even circumnavigated the southern hemisphere. As the aerosols billowed across the oceans
  10. Thumbnail for Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1124-tracing-the-lives-of-early-chinese-families-in-colonial-australia
    31 Mar 2021: I’m a historian, but I’m not my family’s historian. That honour falls to my mum, who for the past twenty years or so has been delving into the lives of my ancestors. Mum started doing the family history after I began studying Australian
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    Opening the archives of White Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1167-opening-the-archives-of-white-australia
    17 Sep 2021: The administration of the Immigration Restriction Act was a huge bureaucratic exercise, creating tens of thousands of records that today reveal personal histories of life under the White Australia Policy. Two recent online projects are opening up

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