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In 2022 Nala Mansell, a campaign coordinator for the centre, called for the removal of a statue of William Crowther from Franklin Square in Hobart. [5] Crowther, a surgeon and former Premier of Tasmania is primarily known for his actions surrounding the theft, decapitation and mutilation of the body of the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal man, William Lanne in 1869.
After campaigning by Tasmanian Aboriginal people in April 2023 UNESCO removed a document claiming they were extinct. [59] A dispute exists within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, however, over what constitutes Aboriginality. The Palawa, mainly descendants of white male sealers and Tasmanian Aboriginal women who settled on the Bass Strait ...
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre [84] Tasmania PWS Trainees: Tasmania: Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and the Environment, Tasmanian Government [85] [86] truwana Rangers: Cape Barren Island: 2015: Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre [87] [88]
Palawa kani is a constructed language [1] created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as a composite Tasmanian language, based on reconstructed vocabulary from the limited accounts of the various languages once spoken by the Aboriginal people of what is now Tasmania (palawa kani: Lutruwita). [2] [6] [4] [7]
Advocacy groups: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Murrawarri Republic, [1] [2] [3] Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia, [4] Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Aboriginal Provisional Government, Yuggera Ugarapul Tribal People's, [5] Sovereign Yidindji Government, [6] Euahlayi People's Republic, [7] [8] Torres Strait Islands, Republic of ...
The 2023 festival of Dark Mofo was a success, with a record 427,000 total entries to festival events, a 60% increase from the previous year, and a revenue of $5.5 million. [23] Key performances included a live performance of Sleep by British composer Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, in which over 200 attendees slept in ...
This list of Indigenous Australian politicians includes Indigenous Australians who have been members of Australian legislatures—federal, state or territory. It does not include those elected to local councils (including mayors), Governors/Governors-General, leaders of political parties (outside of parliament), Indigenous Australians actively involved in political institutions and those who ...
The rest of Lanne's skeleton appears most likely to have been retained in the Royal Society of Tasmania's museum. [2] In the early 1990s, the University of Edinburgh repatriated a skull to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) believed to be that of William Lanne. However, it is disputed that this was in fact Lanne's skull.