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The English language was strongly encouraged as the only language to communicate in, with Robinson promoting the establishment of the first ever Aboriginal Australian newspaper. Each edition was a single hand-written page and it was called the Flinders Island Chronicle .
"Mannalergenna Day" has been celebrated in early December in Little Musselroe Bay in Tasmania since 2015, in commemoration of Mannalargenna and for celebrating Parlevar culture. [7] There is a monument to Mannalargenna at Wybalenna Mission Site Cemetery. [12]
At the Wybalenna facility, he was no longer called "Friday", but was given the name of Walter George Arthur, after the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Sir George Arthur. He was one of the most educated (in a European sense) Aborigines at Wybalenna and taught reading and writing in English to the other inmates.
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It is notable as being the first newspaper produced by Indigenous Australians. [2] The Flinders Island Chronicle was produced at the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island, where many Tasmanian Aboriginals were exiled in the early 1830s, following the Black War. Thomas Brune, aged about fourteen, and Walter George Arthur, aged ...
Tasmania is a one-hour flight or 10-hour ferry crossing from the mainland city of Melbourne, 445 km (275 miles) away. Forty percent of the island is wilderness or protected areas.
Bagdad News: Bagdad: 1997–1999 Bayside Village News: Sandy Bay: 2002–2006 Bell's life in Tasmania a sporting chronicle, agricultural gazette, and country journal [4] Hobart: 1859 Bent's News and Tasmanian Three-penny Register: Hobart: 1836–1837 Binalong Bay Bulletin: Binalong Bay: 1986–1989 Bothwell Banner: Bothwell: 1994 Bothwell Bits ...
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a 1,367-square-kilometre (528 sq mi) island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. [2] Today Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is 54 kilometres (34 mi) from Cape Portland and is located on 40° south, a zone known as the Roaring Forties.