Education, Productivity and Economic Performance – Tasmania Then, Now and Tomorrow
Tasmania | 16th March 2017
The 29th John West Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Launceston Historical Society, 16th March 2016.
The Lecture honours the memory of the Revd John West, who among other things was the first Editor of the Launceston Examiner newspaper, and subsequently editor of the Sydney Morning Herald for almost 20 years, as well as a fervent advocate of ending the transportation of convicts to Tasmania, and one of the earliest advocates of the federation of the various British colonies in Australia.