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Mathinna (c.1835 – 1 September 1852) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian girl, who was kidnapped, adopted and later abandoned by the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Jane Franklin.
Manganinnie is an AFI Award-winning 1980 film which follows the journey of Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who searches for her tribe with the company of a lost white girl named Joanna. Based on Beth Roberts' novel of the same name, it was directed by John Honey and was the first feature film to be financed by the short-lived ...
Satellite image showing snow covering Tasmania's highlands, August 2020. Tasmania's environment consistes of many different biomes or communities across its different regions. It is the most forested state in Australia, and preserves the country's largest areas of temperate rainforest.
John Beattie was born on 15 August 1859 in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Esther Imlay (née Gillivray) and John Beattie (1820-1883).Beattie had a grammar-school education and in 1878, aged nineteen, migrated with his parents to Tasmania where he started a farm in the Derwent Valley [1] from where wrote to his father decrying his prospects.
A furious man has been jailed in Australia after going on a violent rampage when he saw his brother and wife having sex in the back of a car—while his mother sat in the driver’s seat. David ...
Davis was born and brought up in Hobart, Tasmania.She is the daughter of local artist George Davis. [1]She was educated at Clarence High School; Rosny College; the University of Tasmania, where she was a member of the Old Nick Company; [1] and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney.
Truganini was born around 1812 [9] at Recherche Bay (Lyleatea) in southern Tasmania. [10] Her father was Manganerer, a senior figure of the Nuenonne people whose country extended from Recherche Bay across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny Island (Lunawanna-alonnah).
The age of marriage is very different for men and women with girls usually marrying at puberty while a man may not marry until his late 20s or even later. As mothers-in-law and sons-in-law are likely to be of approximately the same age the avoidance practice possibly serves to circumvent potential illicit relationships. [ 1 ]