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    A Tasmanian Requiem

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/586-a-tasmanian-requiem
    24 Apr 2018: On December 26, 1847, a small group of Aboriginal people sat in the Lieutenant-Governor’s box at Hobart’s Theatre Royal watching a new pantomime. A local newspaper reported how “the natives … seemed gratified at their first public
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    Why should my child take swimming lessons?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/981-why-should-my-child-take-swimming-lessons
    12 Feb 2020: Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional death from injury worldwide. From July 2018 to June 2019, 276 people drowned across Australia – a 10% increase on the previous year. Among those were 19 children under four years old, eight
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    Exploring humanity’s relationship with the South Pole

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/151-exploring-humanitys-relationship-with-the-south-pole
    22 Aug 2016: Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Elizabeth Leane is one of three University of Tasmania authors to feature in the international expert series Earth, with the release of her latest book South Pole: Nature and Culture. Here is an excerpt from
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    Reviving an original Tasmanian language

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/671-reviving-an-original-tasmanian-language
    19 Jul 2018: Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, believed to have been the last Aboriginal person to have survived the Tasmanian genocide. Her demise symbolised the devastating impacts of British
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    How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/560-how-picture-boards-were-used-as-propaganda-in-the-vandemonian-war
    14 Mar 2018: As Hobart’s Old Government House was being demolished in the late 1850s, workers made a remarkable discovery. Lifting the floor, they found an old pine board covered with four rows of pictures. Six scenes painted in oils depicted interactions
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    History textbooks still imply that Australians are white

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/323-history-textbooks-still-imply-that-australians-are-white
    19 Jun 2017: Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that Australians are white. Textbook depictions of Australianness are not only relevant to experiences of national belonging or exclusion. Research has
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    Soldiers, thieves, Māori warriors

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/444-soldiers-thieves-maori-warriors
    25 Oct 2017: Soon after it became a British colony, New Zealand began shipping the worst of its offenders across the Tasman Sea. Between 1843 and 1853, an eclectic mix of more than 110 soldiers, sailors, Māori, civilians and convict absconders from the
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    We need a new Australia Day

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/476-we-need-a-new-australia-day
    29 Nov 2017: The decision by ABC Triple J to move the Hottest 100, its popular musical countdown, from January 26 has reignited the smouldering controversy about Australia Day. The radio station has moved the 2018 poll from Australia Day to January 27 after a
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    Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/513-explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide
    17 Jan 2018: At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. Voluminous written and
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    Righting the wrongs of the past

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/775-righting-the-wrongs-of-the-past
    9 Sep 2018: Historians are working with Australian Indigenous communities to return the bodily remains of their Old People to country from overseas museums and universities. The early years of Australian colonisation in the late 1700s coincided with the

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