About History Briefs
These ten stories by Terry Newman are extracts from Sandstone and Statutes:
History of the Tasmanian Parliament.
While this work is still in progress the appearance of these extracts
is to provide a lighter side of the larger forthcoming political history.
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.