SYDNEY (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 the ...

An Aboriginal reconciliation and truth-telling park was once proposed as the centrepiece of development at Macquarie Point, but when a stadium emerged, its location and scale changed. It has now ...

Lutruwita/Tasmania once had many unique Aboriginal languages, but the impact of colonisation has silenced all but a collection of ancient words. Those surviving words, retrieved from archival ...

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 ...

Although the Black Line was considered a failure, Aboriginal survivors of the Black War were then exiled to Wybalenna, a settlement on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Displaced, traumatized, and ...

An award-winning anti-vaping campaign created for Aboriginal young people has expanded into Tasmania, following strong results and growing recognition across health, design and social impact sectors.

Hannah is both Australian and New Zealand Māori psychologist (Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Kahungunu). After moving from New Zealand, Hannah spent a significant portion of her career working with Aboriginal ...

The Tasmanian Aboriginal community is battling bureaucracy over the future of a sacred site and an unpaid rates bill. Read about their concerns. Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania manager Rebecca ...

A city council in Australia has voted to remove a statue of William Crowther, a former premier of the state of Tasmania, who decapitated the body of an Aboriginal man. The statue’s removal would be ...

Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from “fish thieves” to leaders in regional development. When I meet Rodney Scott Dillon in April, he is lounging on the front porch ...

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 researchers of the paper, Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge, and David Bowman, University of Tasmania, study a sediment core. Simon Haberle Today, the island of Tasmania lies across the ...