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 ...
A member of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community charged with trespass has applied to the Hobart Magistrates Court to have her ...
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'Monumental': court ponders on Country sitting

A magistrates court is considering whether to grant an application by an Indigenous woman for evidence to be heard on ...
Forest protester and First Nations activist Ruth Langford says she is hopeful the Magistrates Court will allow her to give ...
Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years Read more from Guardian Australia’s Speaking to country ...
Unknown vandals recently scratched out two ancient Aboriginal hand stencils at Nirmena Nala rock shelter in Tasmania, in the upper region of the Derwent valley. The damage, which almost completely ...
During British colonization of Tasmania which began in the early 1800s, the Aboriginal people living on the island located to the south of Australia’s mainland not only suffered loss of life, but also ...
The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...
THE TAC will ask auction house Sotheby’s to abandon the sale of rare photographic prints of Tasmania’s last full-blood Aborigines. The historically significant prints are part of a large cat­alogue of ...
Complaints from Tasmanians who identified as Aboriginal, but were refused assistance from an Indigenous legal service, contributed to a federal decision to transfer funding from the local legal ...