COMMENTARY
SOUTHERN AUSTRALIAN SECURITY
TASMANIA: AUSTRALIA’S MARITIME STATE AND GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH By Steve Gilmore AM CSC, RADM (Rtd), Tasmanian Defence Advocate
The Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory, owned and operated by University of Tasmania, is located 20 km east of Hobart in Cambridge. It is home to three radio astronomy antennas and the Grote Reber Museum. © UTAS.
Geography often has a significant part to play in the way a community evolves, lives, works and contributes to Australia and the world. Tasmania is most definitely blessed in its location and physical circumstance. This has in turn had a defining impact on life in Australia’s southernmost state.