45th Conference and Annual General Meeting
Program and Online Registration Form
to be held at The Grange, Campbell Town Tasmania on:
Saturday
21 June 2025
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10.30 am |
Registration and Morning Tea |
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10.55 am |
Welcome by President, Robyn Gibson: Presentation of Early Bird Prize |
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11.00 am - 11.30 am |
Alison Alexander - Land of Rogues and Scoundrels |
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11.30 am - 12.30 pm |
Helene Chung - Two Unconventional Tasmanian Chinese |
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12.30 pm - 1.30 pm |
Lunch |
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1.35 pm - 2.15 pm |
Richie Woolley - Amy Sherwin and her family |
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2.30 pm - 3.00 pm |
Annual General Meeting including presentation of: Lilian Watson
Family History Award |
About Our Guest Speakers
Alison Alexander
Tasmania in its first thirty years of white settlement: a land of rogues and scoundrels, or a surprisingly cohesive beginning to our land today? This talk is based on Alison’s latest book.
Alison Alexander was born and educated in Tasmania and has spent her career writing on many aspects of Tasmanian history. She is involved in several historical groups, and for many years has been the proud patron of the Tasmanian Family History Society.
Helene Chung
An illustrated talk on her father Charles Chung and her mother Dorothy Henry from two leading Chinese families whose market gardens, fruit shops and restaurants nourished Tasmanians for three generations.
Pioneer journalist Helene Chung (He-Lane Chung as in Hung) broke racist and sexist barriers in 1974 to become the first non-white reporter on Australian television and, as Beijing correspondent (1983-86), the first female posted abroad by the ABC.
She is the author of Shouting from China, Gentle John: My Love My Loss, Lazy Man in China, and Ching Chong China Girl.
Richie Woolley
Amy Sherwin (1855-1935) was one of the first Tasmanians to achieve success at an international level. Known as the Tasmanian Nightingale, she was famous for her beautiful singing voice. She grew up in the Huon Valley, with the Sherwins among the earliest European settlers at what is now Judbury. The family's struggle to establish their property Forest Home was beset by many difficulties, and they were required to overcome the challenges of flood and fire before they were able to create the home they desired.
Like Amy, Richie grew up at Judbury. He is the author of Above the Falls: the People and the History of the Upper Huon , and Amy Sherwin, the Tasmanian Nightingale, and co-author of A History of the Huon and Far South. He is a long-term member of the Tasmanian Family History Society, and an active participant in its DNA Interest Group
Registration is now open ..
This form is to register and then pay online for the 2025 AGM and conference in Campbell Town. (A brochure can be downloaded here.)