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Kingborough Council Main historical issues

Kingborough Council Main historical issues. Recapitulation from week one Theme areas About the municipality Kingborough’s historical geography Next lecture. About the municipality. 10 kms south Hobart 336 km coastline 717 km 2 total area main towns

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Kingborough Council Main historical issues

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  1. Kingborough CouncilMain historical issues • Recapitulation from week one • Theme areas • About the municipality • Kingborough’s historical geography • Next lecture

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

  3. Kingborough’s historical geography • Explorations of Bruny D’Entrecasteaux 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).

  4. Kingborough’s historical geography • Flinders and Bass 1798 – Mount Wellington – sights of area to become Kingston • [Risdon 1803, Hobart 1804] • Relatively rapid expansion south • Brown’s 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

  5. Kingborough’s historical geography • Development expanded with the construction of William Proctor’s 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

  6. Kingborough’s 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

  7. 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 • 1996 28096 • 1997 28239 • 1998 28249 • 1999 28285 • 2000 28443 • 2001 28500 • 346 or 1.2%

  8. Comparative population change 1986-96

  9. Population growth rates 1994-2000

  10. Comparative population projections

  11. Youth dependency 1996 Census high youth dependency high out-migration of young men aged 20-34 and young women aged 20-29

  12. Aged dependency 1996 Census Increasing aged dependency, predicted to increase; Part B ageing at rate faster than Part A

  13. Comparative unemployment rates

  14. Comparative industry sectors – Kingborough Parts A and B

  15. Occupations – Parts A and B

  16. Highest qualification – Parts A and B

  17. Highest qualification by sex – Part A

  18. Highest qualification by sex – Part B

  19. Weekly individual income

  20. Gender differentials in income

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