Michael Mansell, chair of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, said he would write to all councils after criticising interpretive pavers installed in Launceston’s Civic Square last year, which he ...

The University of Cambridge’s collection of thylacines, sent from Morton Allport in 1869 and 1871, represent the UK’s biggest collection of this species known to originate from a single person. A ...

It evokes one of the most powerful scenes in Tasmanian history. On January 7, 1832, the last 16 Aboriginal warriors from the Oyster Bay-Big River resistance walked down Elizabeth Street in Hobart, ...

What killed the Tasmanian Aborigines? When British colonists arrived in 1803, the island’s indigenous people numbered a few thousand. Thirty years later, about 100 remained. Most historians blame ...

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine Archaeologists exploring the submerged ...

(CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those stories intertwine with the ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...

Some Aboriginal Tasmanian people did survive colonial persecution, Ashby added, though at brutal costs. “Many Aboriginal women had been kidnapped by whalers, sealers and other settlers and taken to ...

It also affirms Aboriginal peoples’ contemporary connections to the sea, and underscores why sea country should be protected. Since the last ice age, sea levels have risen 130 meters in Australia; ...