About History Briefs
These stories by Terry Newman, former Parliamentary Historian. Terry has previously published several books connected to the Tasmanian
Parliament including Referenda in Tasmania [1984], Tasmanian Premiers
[1988] and Hare-Clark in Tasmania [1992]. His latest book, Becoming
Tasmania; renaming Van Diemen's Land, [2005] explores and explains
Tasmania's name
change and how this renaming was interwoven with making Tasmania 'convict
free' and obtaining self-government.