Course Resources 2026

2026 Class Presentations and Recordings

Great Plays – Penny Cohen

- - 10 September: Anton Chekhov the Writer
  - 17 September: Russian Theatre

The Premiers – Neil Spark

- - 14 July: Eric Reece: Tasmania’s Most Successful Premier (audio)
  - 21 July: Angus Bethune: the Reformer (audio)
  - 28 July: Eric Reece: the times they were a’-changin’ (audio)
  - 4 August: Neilson and Lowe: the Entertainer and the Damned (audio)
  - 11 August: Robin Gray: the Whispering Bulldozer (audio)

Kaleidoscope

- - 19 March: What is the Nature of Our Time?: An Orwellian Tale from a Tasmanian Perspective (pdf) – Jeff Malpas
  - 16 April: The Path less Travelled: a personal journey to some of Europe’s lesser known museums and historical sites (pdf) – Steve Rank (notes)
  - 23 April: Looking From the North (audio)- Henry Reynolds
  - 30 April: The Mirror Crack’d (audio) – Alan Carter
  - 7 May: What was Killing Babies in Hobart Town? (pdf) – Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
  - 14 May: Reminiscence Therapy (pdf) – Maureen Eadie
  - 18 June: The Woman who made Vincent Van Gogh (audio) – Wendy Bowler
  - 24 June: The Devil’s Milk: a Social History of Rubber (pdf) – John Tully
  - 2 July: Leading the Way: Tasmania’s First, and so far only, Female Premier (audio) – Lara Giddings
  - 9 July: Leading Key and Current Issues Impacting Hobart (audio) – Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds
  - 23 July: No New Stadium Group update (audio)– Roland Browne
  - 30 July
  - 6 August: The Royal Society of Tasmania: a Living Institution (audio) The Royal Society (pdf)- Julie Rimes
  - 13 August: A Perfect Storm: The Blythe Star Tragedy (audio) Blythe Star Tragedy (pdf) – Neil Spark
  - 10 September: Changes at Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (Dale Arvidsson)
  - 17 September: Literally a Trailblazer: 26Ten, Adult Literacy in Tasmania (Malcolm Wells)
  - 24 September: The Power of Tasmania (audio) Hydro Tasmania’s past, present & future (pdf) (Andrew Hickman)
  - 1 October: Leading In Politics (audio) (Christine Milne)
  - 8 October: The Iran-US-Israel Conflict (audio) Iran-Israel-US-War (pdf)(Matt Killingsworth)

Musical Escapades: Exploring Less-travelled Pathways of Western Music – Peter Lynch

1. 1. Out of the Shadows: The Men Behind the Women Behind the Men (pdf)
  2. Music for Peace (Part 1)(pdf)
  3. Bells and Whistles. What’s New? (pdf)
  4. Music for Peace (Part 2) (pdf)
  5. Halcyon Days: Close Encounters of the Best Kind (pdf)

Ching Chong China Girl – Helen Chung

- 1. Two Unconventional Tasmanian Chinese (YouTube)
  2. China: Old Communism to New Capitalism (YouTube)
  3. Searching for my Roots: a wild Dragon chase, 1984-2017 (YouTube)
  4. Death and Dying, Grief and Ritual: China and Australia (YouTube)
  5. No Knife on my Silk Road: Xian to Kashgar (YouTube)

Short Bites

- - 31 March: Both Sides Now (pdf) – Jay Garfield
  - 5 May: AI: Current and Emerging Issues (pdf) – Soonja Yeom
  - 12 May: Generative AI and the Future of Human-AI Collaboration (pdf), 11 of the Best AI Tools for Teachers (YouTube)

Travellers’ Tales

- - 2 March: The Isle of Wight (pdf) – Janet Whelan
  - 27 April: Three Towns in France (pdf) – David Waters
  - 4 May: Racing Across the South Atlantic (pdf)– David Bowker
  - 11 May: Spoleto, Ravenna and the Dolomites (pdf)– Alison Waters

Menzies Health Series

- - 30 June: Turning Transport into a Tool for Better Health (pdf)