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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
The name of a bridge in Tasmania’s North has been earmarked by Tasmanian Aboriginal leaders as one of the first to go after significant changes were announced to Tasmania’s Aboriginal and dual names ...
With just days until a crucial federal decision, Aboriginal leaders warn approving a controversial Tasmanian wind farm would destroy irreplaceable cultural heritage. Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre ...
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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 ...