An Aboriginal activist has told a Tasmanian court she has a cultural obligation to "protect lands that are being slaughtered", after she was charged with trespassing while protesting in a logging ...

An Aboriginal activist has interrogated forestry company staff over their knowledge of cultural heritage as part of her ...

One of the destroyed handprints. Courtesy of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center For millennia, Tasmania’s Nirmena Nala rock shelter has preserved a set of stenciled handprints made by the ancestors of ...

An Aboriginal leader has branded as “entrenched racism” a draft Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage Act to replace current ...

SYDNEY, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sandstone rock shelters sitting on Tasmania's Mount Wellington were built by indigenous tribes thousands of years ago, but it was only in 2014 that ...

Not much is known about the Aboriginal man known as “Musquito” (c.1780–1825). This does not make him unusual among the ...

A Tasmanian-based reconciliation council is likely to be formed, bringing the island state in line with the rest of the country. While the idea has been welcomed by parts of the state's Aboriginal ...

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Tasmania's Lower House has passed legislation that will recognise Aboriginal people in the state's constitution. The amendment will form part of the preamble of the Tasmanian Constitution, and will ...

At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with "the Aboriginal ...

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Campaigner Nala Mansell said the event honoured the men, women and children killed when British soldiers opened fire on an unsuspecting group hunting Kangaroo. Ms Mansell ...