The Tasmanian government will no longer pursue a treaty with Tasmanian Aboriginal people, instead funding the establishment of truth-telling and healing commissioners. The decision came four years ...

Australia will remain a “racist country” until the date for Australia Day is changed, a leading Tasmanian Aboriginal activist ...

"Text compiled from material submitted by The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and Julia Clark, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery"--P. 15. "Produced in co-operation by the Council for Aborginial ...

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, ...

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) has condemned what they call a “secret transfer” of three Aboriginal youths from the ...

Tasmania’s Aboriginal community is renewing a push to find and protect the burial sites of elders who died during the colonial ‘Black War’ era. Historically significant graves are believed to be on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jack Ashby received funding from a Headley Fellowship with Art Fund. He is affiliated with the Natural Sciences Collections Association. Readers are advised this article contains the names of ...

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 ...