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==Infrastructure== ===Education=== {{See also|Education in Tasmania|Tasmania Tomorrow}} [[File:Hedberg Building Campbell Street Hobart Tasmania Australia.jpg|thumb|[[The Hedberg]], part of the [[University of Tasmania]]'s Hobart campus]] The Greater Hobart area contains 122 primary, secondary and pretertiary (College) schools distributed throughout Clarence, Glenorchy and Hobart City Councils and Kingborough and Brighton Municipalities. These schools are made up of a mix of public, catholic, private and independent run, with the heaviest distribution lying in the more densely populated West around the Hobart city core. The [[Department for Education, Children and Young People]] is responsible for government schools and [[Libraries Tasmania]], which operates literacy services and libraries across the region, including the [[State Library of Tasmania]] where it is headquartered. Hobart is home to the main campus of the [[University of Tasmania]], a [[sandstone university]] located in [[Sandy Bay, Tasmania|Sandy Bay]]. On-site accommodation colleges include [[Christ College (University of Tasmania)|Christ College]] (founded in 1846, making it Australia's oldest tertiary institution), [[Jane Franklin Hall]] and [[St. John Fisher College (University of Tasmania)|St John Fisher College]]. UTAS also has many sites within the [[Hobart City Centre]], where it hosts the [[College of Health and Medicine (University of Tasmania)|Medical Science Precinct]], the [[College of Arts, Law and Education (University of Tasmania)|College of Arts, Law and Education]]'s Hunter Street campus (which also has a TasTAFE training facility), and the [[Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies]] (IMAS) nearby the [[CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere|CSIRO Marine Laboratories]], as well as the Hytten Hall and Hobart Apartments accommodation<ref>{{cite web |title=Hobart accommodation |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/uni-life/accommodation/hobart |website=UTAS |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> in Midtown. It also operates the [[Canopus Hill Observatory]] in [[Mount Rumney, Tasmania|Mount Rumney]] and the [[Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory]] in [[Cambridge, Tasmania|Cambridge]]. [[TasTAFE]] operates a total of seven polytechnic campuses within the Greater Hobart area that provide vocational education and training.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.tastafe.tas.edu.au/about/ |title=About us |work=TasTAFE |access-date=2017-09-09 |language=en-US |archive-date=9 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909190255/https://www.tastafe.tas.edu.au/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> These include the [[Campbell Street, Hobart|Campbell Street]] campus in the city, the [[Clarence City|Clarence]] campus in [[Warrane, Tasmania|Warrane]], and Drysdale (at [[Claremont College (Tasmania)|Claremont College]] and on [[Collins Street, Hobart|Collins Street]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Campuses |url=https://www.tastafe.tas.edu.au/campuses |website=TasTAFE |date=22 December 2021 |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> ===Health=== [[File:Hobart Private Hospital.jpg|thumb|[[Hobart Private Hospital]]]] The [[Royal Hobart Hospital]] (RHH) is the pre-eminent [[public hospital]] in Tasmania, located in central Hobart with 501 beds for emergency presentations and elective surgeries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal Hobart Hospital |url=https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/myhospitals/hospital/h0714 |website=Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> It also serves as the Hobart Clinical School [[teaching hospital]] for the [[College of Health and Medicine (University of Tasmania)|University of Tasmania]]. There are also 9 [[Ambulance Tasmania|ambulance stations]] in the Hobart region,<ref>{{cite web |title=Our locations |url=https://www.health.tas.gov.au/hospitals/ambulance/contacting-ambulance-tasmania/our-locations |website=Health Tasmania |date=13 September 2022 |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> and the [[State Emergency Service|SES]] Southern Regional Headquarters is on [[Bathurst Street, Hobart|Bathurst Street]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Southern Regional Headquarters |url=https://www.ses.tas.gov.au/about/contact-us/south-region/ |website=SES Tasmania |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> (along with the [[Tasmania Fire Service]] Head Office on [[Argyle Street, Hobart|Melville/Argyle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Contact Us |url=https://www.fire.tas.gov.au/contact/ |website=Tasmania Fire Service |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> and [[Tasmania Police]] Headquarters on [[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool]]). A private hospital, [[Hobart Private Hospital]] is located adjacent to the RHH and operated by Australian healthcare provider [[Healthscope]]. The company also owned another hospital in the city, the [[St Helen's Private Hospital]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sthelensprivatehospital.com.au/ |title=Home |website=St. Helen's Private Hospital |access-date=29 January 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129153552/https://sthelensprivatehospital.com.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which featured a mother-baby unit<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/st-helens-break-impact-on-royal-hobart-hospital/9263836 |title=Royal Hobart Hospital bracing for mental health load as St Helen's takes holiday break |date=15 December 2017 |website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |access-date=29 January 2020 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925110157/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/st-helens-break-impact-on-royal-hobart-hospital/9263836 |url-status=live }}</ref> but it was closed in 2023.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blackwood |first1=Fiona |title=Psychiatric patients in Tasmania fear mental health crisis as St Helen's Private Hospital closes |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/st-helens-private-hospital-closes/102510576 |access-date=25 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=23 June 2023}}</ref> A new Tasman private hospital in New Town was proposed on a former [[WIN News]] site, but abandoned in 2023.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tasman Private Hospital development in New Town, Hobart, won't proceed due to 'cost pressures' |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/tas-new-town-private-hospital-not-going-ahead/102745458 |access-date=25 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=18 August 2023}}</ref> The [[Calvary Hospital, Hobart|Calvary Hospital]] is operated by [[Little Company of Mary Health Care (Australia)|Little Company of Mary Health Care]] at its main campus the Calvary-St John's Private Hospital in [[Lenah Valley, Tasmania|Lenah Valley]], and has an older location in [[South Hobart, Tasmania|South Hobart]] (the former Homoeopathic Hospital). It has a Private Rehabilitation Unit.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Calvary St John's Hospital |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/st-johns-private-hospital-hobart/about/ |website=Calvary Care |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> The Hobart Clinic (formerly St Michael's Priory) is a not-for-profit operating a 27-bed psychiatric hospital in [[Rokeby, Tasmania|Rokeby]] and Mind Hub on Collins Street, with a focus on therapies.<ref>{{cite web |title=About The Hobart Clinic |url=https://www.thehobartclinic.com.au/about-us/ |website=The Hobart Clinic |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> ===Utilities=== Drinking water and sewerage in the city is managed by [[TasWater]], but many organisations and levels of government are involved at different stages. The first dams in Tasmania were built along the [[Hobart Rivulet]] and now there are many reservoirs in the region to safeguard the supply of water<ref>{{cite web |title=Dams |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Dams.htm |website=The Companion to Tasmanian History |publisher=UTAS |access-date=23 June 2024}}</ref> (as while [[kunanyi|kunanyi / Mt Wellington]] receives high rainfall, the city itself is dry), such as the Waterworks reservoirs<ref>{{cite web |title=Waterworks Reserve |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Parks-sportsgrounds-and-reserves/Find-a-park-or-reserve/Waterworks-Reserve |website=City of Hobart |access-date=23 June 2024}}</ref> via the [[Sandy Bay, Tasmania|Sandy Bay]] Rivulet, the [[Tolosa Park|Tolosa dam]] (disused in 2018)<ref>{{cite news |title=Tolosa Dam Conversion to Parkland |url=https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/05/tolosa-dam-conversion-to-parkland/ |access-date=23 June 2024 |agency=Tasmanian Times |date=6 May 2022}}</ref> and Lime Kiln Gully dam in [[Glenorchy, Tasmania|Glenorchy]], and the [[Flagstaff Gully, Tasmania|Flagstaff Gully]] dam and [[Risdon Vale, Tasmania|Risdon Brook]] dam (which stores treated water from the [[New Norfolk]] Bryn Estyn plant)<ref>{{cite web |title=Risdon Brook Park |url=https://www.taswater.com.au/community/community/risdon-brook-park |website=TasWater |access-date=23 June 2024}}</ref> in [[Clarence City#Utilities|Clarence]]. [[TasNetworks]] is responsible for electricity and telecommunications provision.
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