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This Reconciliation Week is different
May 30, 2024This Reconciliation Week is different: it is off the back of the ‘No’ vote and my people are dying. Writes Sissy Austin (Gunditjmara, Keeray Wurrung and Djab Wurrung).
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Tasmania Aboriginal Legal Service backs commissioner’s calls for taskforce to reduce number of children in Ashley Youth Detention Centre
May 24, 2024Tasmanian Commissioner for Children and Young People, Leanne McLean has called for urgent action from the Tasmanian government to reduce the number of children held in northern Tasmania’s notorious Ashley Youth Detention Centre.
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Statue of colonial-era politician who stole Aboriginal man’s head toppled
May 16, 2024The statue of controversial colonial-era Tasmanian surgeon and politician William Crowther, who mutilated the body of Aboriginal man William Lanne’s corpse, has been cut down in Hobart’s CBD.
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‘Urapun Muy’ wins 2024 NAIDOC Week poster competition
May 11, 2024Deb Belyea’s artwork ‘Urapun Muy’ has won the 2024 NAIDOC Week poster competition.
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Lyndall Ryan’s impact on Australian history research will be felt for many years to come
May 10, 2024Ryan’s rigorous, public-facing study of frontier violence and massacres led to the massacre map, which continues to attract international attention. She was also a cherished friend.
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Traditional Elders can once again access an Indigenous sacred site in Tasmania after ILSC funding
May 3, 2024Indigenous Elders now have easier access to a sacred space on the traditional lands of the Punnilerpanner people in Tasmania after local amenities were upgraded.