The Colonial Hospital, run by the Convict Department, opened in Liverpool Street, Hobart in 1820. It provided the headquarters of the medical establishment and hospital services to convicts. In 1860, responsibility for the Hospital was transferred to the newly established colonial government. The Colonial Hospital became the Hobart General Hospital. Lachlan Macquarie, the Governor of…
The Royal Hobart Hospital replaced the Hobart General Hospital in 1938, remaining on the same site in Liverpool Street. It was a public hospital run by its own Board and then by the Health Department and its successors. Adoptions took place from the maternity unit at the Royal Hobart and, later, its Obstetric Division at…
The Queen Alexandra Maternity Hospital (the Queen Alex) opened in Hampden Road, Battery Point in 1908. Initially, a private board ran it but in 1950 the government took over. In 1980, it moved to a new building in Argyle Street, adjacent to the Royal Hobart Hospital. Over its lifetime, many adoptions took place from the…
The Magistracy Departments were individual Departments which managed the lower courts in various localities. After 1905, they included the children’s courts. In 1989, the Magistracy Departments became part of the Law Department. In 1907, when the government produced its first formal list of Departments, the Magistracy Departments were all linked together under the Sheriff and…
The Magistracy Departments were individual Departments which managed the lower courts in various localities. They had their origins in the appointment of a Magistrate at Hobart and Port Dalrymple in 1804. The first system of Police Magistrates was established by Governor George Arthur in the late 1820s and early 1930s. Between then and 1901, the…
The Department of Justice replaced the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations in 2004. In 2014, its many sections include the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Corrective Services, the Prison Service, the Guardianship and Administration Board, Crown Law, and the Ombudsman.
The Department of Justice and Industrial Relations, replaced the Department of Justice in 1998. It included the Supreme Court, Magistrates Courts, Prison Service, Guardianship and Administration Board, Industrial Relations, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Anti-Discrimination Commission, and Elections and Referendums. In 2003, it became the Department of Justice again.
The Department of Justice replaced the Law Department in about 1992. It managed the court system, including the Supreme Court, the Solicitor-General, and corporate affairs. The Department included the Prison Service, which since 1989, had been run by the Department of Community Services. In 1998, the Department of Justice became the Department of Justice and…
The Law Department replaced the Attorney-General’s Department in 1983. It was an amalgamation of the Attorney-General’s Department, the Solicitor-General, Corporate Affairs, and the Prisons Department, known as the Corrective Services Division. In 1989, the new Labor government transferred the Division to the Department for Community Services. The Law Department became the Department of Justice in…
The Attorney General’s Department, which served the state government from 1901, was mostly concerned with the administration of justice in the Supreme Court of Tasmania. It had other, subsidiary functions that varied over the years. One of them was, from 1946, the administration of the Probation and Paroles Service for adults and children, formerly run…
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