Kingborough Council Main historical issues

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Kingborough CouncilMain historical issues

• Recapitulation from week one
• Theme areas
• About the municipality
• Kingboroughs historical geography
• Next lecture

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About the municipality

• 10 kms south Hobart
• 336 km coastline
• 717 km2 total area
• main towns
• residential, commercial, retail, research and
  administrative centre

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Kingboroughs historical geography

• Explorations of Bruny DEntrecasteaux 1792
• Riviere Du Nord (Derwent River)
• North West Bay
• Each ray of light displayed fresh beauties. On
  all sides bays of great depth were to be seen,
  all equally sheltered from the winds. The
  highlands covered with trees surrounding these
  bays promised good depth of water and freedom
  from danger. None of our navigators had ever seen
  in their voyages so vast and safe an anchorage
  (in Rait, 1973, 1).

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Kingboroughs historical geography

• Flinders and Bass 1798 Mount Wellington
  sights of area to become Kingston
• Risdon 1803, Hobart 1804
• Relatively rapid expansion south
• Browns river botany survey
• Little literature on early history of area
• Kingston originally a land grant to a Thomas
  Lucas, Marine, from Norfolk Island and various
  other pioneers to whom land was granted

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Kingboroughs historical geography

• Development expanded with the construction of
  William Proctors road in 1835 9 miles for 900
  Government declared it a public thoroughfare
• Sandy Bay to Kingston road constructed 1840 by
  convicts from Canada, but river travel was
  critical
• 1847 resettlement of Aboriginals from Flinders
  Island to Oyster Cove
• Kingston proclaimed 1851 an irregular and
  straggling country township (Stoney in Rait,
  1973, 4) summer retreat
• Kingston School late 1850s Shot Tower 1870
  numerous other heritage buildings and sites

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Kingboroughs historical geography

• Municipal status 1908 changes over time to
  boundaries ongoing process
• Street lighting 1924, and first water scheme 1936
• Many small townships and hamlets focused on
  fishing, horticulture, agriculture, forestry and
  related activities, the predominance of one or
  other changing with time, markets, innovations in
  technology and related factors
• Anticipated gaining city status within 20 years
  in 1973 population growth high but insufficient
  to meet this claim
• Now a major commercial, retail, administrative
  and research area

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• 1996 28096
• 1997 28239
• 1998 28249
• 1999 28285
• 2000 28443
• 2001 28500
• 346 or 1.2

• 1986
• Males 10361 (49.80)
• Females 10444 (50.20) 20805
• 1991
• Males 11931 (49.04)
• Females 12397 (50.96) 24328
• 1996
• Males 12997 (48.43)
• Females 13842 (51.57) 26839

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Comparative population change 1986-96
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Population growth rates 1994-2000
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Comparative population projections
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Youth dependency
1996 Census high youth dependency high
out-migration of young men aged 20-34 and young
women aged 20-29
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Aged dependency
1996 Census Increasing aged dependency, predicted
to increase Part B ageing at rate faster than
Part A
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Comparative unemployment rates
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Comparative industry sectors Kingborough Parts
A and B
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Occupations Parts A and B
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Highest qualification Parts A and B
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Highest qualification by sex Part A
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Highest qualification by sex Part B
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Weekly individual income
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Gender differentials in income