Personal Information:

TERRY NEWMAN, B.A. (Hons) Dip. Lib.

GRADUATE: Uni. Tas. B.A. (Hons) (1977)
MAJORING: Political Science and Administration
HONOURS THESIS:  Tas. Legislative Council Committee System 1927-1976
POST-GRADUATE: QUALIFICATIONS:  Diploma Librarianship, TCAE (1978)
LIBRARY PROFESSION:
Deputy/Parliamentary Librarian: March, 1979 - 2000
Project Manager Parliamentary History Project 2001

[See also Who's Who in Australia]

Bibliography:
Thesis: ‘The Tasmanian Legislative Council: its committee system, 1926-1976’,
Univeristy of Tasmania. (B.A. Hons. Thesis), 1977

Two Tasmanian Towns: a survey of the information needs of Dover and Maydena’
(Hobart): TCAE Diploma Extended Study Report, Nov. 1978 (with several others).

Books:
Referenda in Tasmania Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1984.

Representation of the Tasmanian People Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1985.

History of the Tasmanian Parliamentary Library Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1987.

Tasmanian Premiers:  1856-1988, a handbook Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1988.

Hare-Clark in Tasmania: Representation of all Opinions  Hobart: Joint Library Committee, 1992

Representation of the Tasmanian People - Expanded Edition 1803-1994  Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1994.

Articles
Questions in the Legislative Council of Tasmania, Parliamentarian, Vol. LIX, No.1. 1978, pp.62-5.

Tasmanian election, 1979’, Parliamentarian, Vol. LX, 1979, pp.227-8.

Consensus Government - Tasmania's Experiment, Parliamentarian, Vol. LXI, No.4. 1980, pp.238-41.

Tasmanian Referenda since Federation (Appendix T),  
Report of the Royal Commission into the Tasmanian Constitution Act, 1934, Hobart: Government Printer, 1982.

Divided Tasmanian Government toppled by Referendum dispute, Parliamentarian, LXIII, No. 4, Oct. 1982, pp.326-9.

Access to Australian Parliaments and Government Publications Proceedings of Seventh Biennial APLA Conference, Brisbane, July 1984, pp.119-23.

About Time - Daylight Saving in Tasmania, Royal Society of Tasmania, Vol. 118, August, 1984, pp. 21-36

Tasmania rejects a smaller Parliament Parliamentarian, Vol. LXVI, No. 2, April 1985, pp.77-9.

Summer election shines for Tasmanian Liberal Government’ Parliamentarian, Vol. LXVII, No. 3, July 1986, pp. 115-8.

Tasmanian Parliamentary Library in 21st Century Parliamentary Libraries and the Future Sydney: Library of Parliament 1988, pp. 164-8

Tasmania - Bicameralism and constitutional reform Parliamentarian, Vol. LXX, No. 3, July 1989, pp. 140-2

The Bramich Bombshell and the 1956 General Election  Tasmanian Historical Research Association  Vol. 38, No. 2, June 1991, pp.61-77

Tasmania's Electoral System (PR & STV) - Paper to CPA (Tas) Seminar, September 1992 p.1-6.

Tasmania 1992: an election without television and radio commercialsParliamentarian, Vol. LXXIII, No.4, October 1992, pp.258-61,

Tasmania's Legislative Council and 14 Powers' Referendum, 1944’ Tasmanian Historical Research Association Vol.42, No.2, June 1995 pp.65-92.

Parliamentary reform: Tasmania tackles Member's Pay and Member's numbers Parliamentarian, Vol. XXV1 No. 3 July 1995, pp.201-6.

Tasmania’s unique electoral system Representation Vol. 34 No. 1 Winter, 1996/7 , pp37-42

Motor Car Rally, 1937 Tasmanian Historical Research Association Vol. 44, No. 1, March 1997 pp.68-9.

Reducing Parliament – Forwards, Backwards, Down – Downsizing Tasmania’s Parliament Parliamentarian Vol. LXXX No. 2, April 1999

East -v- West  Mercury 15 September 2001 p.41-2 

[a longer version appears as “Bowen Refuses to Bow out’ on the Internet at www.parliament.gov.au/php/php.htm]

Lethal twist to Tasmanian politics Mercury 30/3/2002 p.38

One Horse Island’ Mercury 11/10/2002

Tasmania and the secret ballot Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 49 No. 1 2003 pp.93-101

Washing out the hated stain Mercury 03/05/03 p.44

Lieut John Bowen Newsletter Hobart (1804) Vol XXX No4 December 2003 pp.14-8

A Seismic change: Tasmania’s 2002 Election Parliamentarian Vol. XXXIV 2003 Issue No.2 pp.161-7

Tasmanian graffiti: Humphrey’s Hammer and Chisel’, 13 January 1804’ Tasmanian Historical Research Association Vol. 51, No. 1, March 2004, pp.19-28

 Unattributed:
Tasmania's constitution and bicameral Parliament Issue Brief 91/8 Parliamentary Research Service, Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, September 1991.

Opinion Polls - A Review Issue Brief 92/4 (Parliamentary Research Service) Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, September 1992.

Parliament House - Hobart: selected history material (compiled May 1995).

Free Conferences of Managers - At Issue? Issue Brief 94/2 (Parliamentary Research Service), Hobart: Tasmanian Parliamentary Library, 1994.

Parliamentary Museum Fact sheets (30 in Series).

WWW: Inaugural Internet pages for Parliament, Library and Fact Sheets

Tumult in the House by Wayne Crawford, Mercury 25/11/2001. [TN Supplied]

[Seven contributions to Alexander, A [ed.] The companion to Tasmanian history Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Univeristy of Tasmania, 2005]

In progress:
Sandstone and Statutes: the sesquicentennial history of the Tasmanian Parliament