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    The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the monarch, currently King Charles III. The incumbent governor is...
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    (Tas) the Letters Patent of 2005 (which constitutes and outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Governor of Tasmania other important constitutional...
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    and consists of the governor of Tasmania (as representative of the King), the Legislative Council (the upper house), and the House of Assembly (the lower...
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  • house of the Parliament of Tasmania, is invited by the governor of Tasmania to form the executive. The governor appoints the premier of Tasmania. Since...
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    Barbara Baker (category Governors of Tasmania)
    judge, who is the 29th and current governor of Tasmania since 16 June 2021. She served on the Federal Circuit Court of Australia from 2008 to 2021. Baker...
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    The current state flag of Tasmania was officially adopted following a proclamation by Tasmanian colonial Governor Sir Frederick Weld on 25 September 1876...
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    the House of Assembly is invited by the governor of Tasmania to be premier and principal adviser. Since 8 April 2022, the premier of Tasmania has been...
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  • The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth...
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    The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901...
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  • penal colonies, and their governors (lieutenant-governors in Tasmania) exercised more or less absolute authority. Tasmania in particular was run as a...
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    the colony of Tasmania. Norfolk Island becomes the independent colony of Norfolk Island, however it is to be administered by the same governor as New South...
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    Peter Underwood (category Governors of Tasmania)
    and the Governor of Tasmania from 2008 until his death in 2014. He was the Chief Justice of Tasmania from 2004 to 2008, having been a judge of the Supreme...
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  • The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to...
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  • Governor of Queensland (1859–1868) Tasmania – Colonel Thomas Browne, Governor of Tasmania (1862–1868) South Australia – Sir Dominick Daly, Governor of...
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  • Governor of Queensland (1859–1868) Tasmania – Colonel Thomas Browne, Governor of Tasmania (1862–1868) South Australia – Sir Dominick Daly, Governor of...
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  • MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia (1855–1862) Tasmania – Sir Henry Young, Governor of Tasmania (1855–1861) Victoria – Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria...
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  • Governor of Tasmania (1869–1874) South Australia – Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia (1873–1877) Victoria – George Bowen, Governor of...
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  • Richard Butler (diplomat) (category Governors of Tasmania)
    Australian public servant, United Nations weapons inspector, and a former Governor of Tasmania. Butler was born in Coolah in rural New South Wales. He grew up in...
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  • Queensland (1871–1874) Tasmania – Sir Charles Du Cane, Governor of Tasmania (1869–1874) South Australia – Sir James Fergusson, Bt, Governor of South Australia...
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    George Strahan (colonial administrator) (category Governors of Tasmania)
    British military officer and colonial administrator, best known as the Governor of Tasmania from 1881 to 1886. Strahan was born on 9 December 1838 in Fraserburgh...
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  • (1877–1883) Tasmania – Major Frederick Weld, Governor of Tasmania (1875–1880) South Australia – Lieutenant-General William Jervois, Governor of South Australia...
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  • Stanley Burbury (category Governors of Tasmania)
    Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1956 to 1973 and as Governor of Tasmania from 1973 to 1982, the state's first Australian-born governor. Burbury was born...
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  • Charles Gairdner (category Governors of Tasmania)
    appointed Governor of Western Australia in 1951, a position in which he served until 1963, when he assumed the role of Governor of Tasmania until 1968...
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  • Queensland (1877–1883) Tasmania – Major Frederick Weld, Governor of Tasmania (1875–1880) South Australia Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia (1873–1877)...
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    colonial administrator, who was Governor of St Helena, Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Tasmania and Governor of Bermuda. Browne was born on 3 July...
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    Kate Warner (category Governors of Tasmania)
    academic who was the 28th Governor of Tasmania from 2014 to 2021. Warner was born Catherine Ann Friend in Hobart, Tasmania, and attended St Michael's...
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  • Marshal Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland (1889–1895) Tasmania – Jenico Preston, Lord Gormanston, Governor of Tasmania (1893–1900) South Australia...
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  • Guy Green (judge) (category Governors of Tasmania)
    Australian judge who served as the Governor of Tasmania from 1995 to 2003. He was the first Tasmanian-born governor of the state, although not the first...
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  • 1936) was Governor of Tasmania from 15 December 2004 to 2 April 2008, prior to which he was the state's Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor. Born in...
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  • Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia (1855–1862) Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania Sir Henry Young, Governor of Tasmania (1855–1861) note: Van Diemen's...
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