Tasmanian Times
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1.3KPedder Unplugged – ‘In the Spirit of Olegas’
Pedder Unplugged is a new podcast series all about Tasmania’s Lake Pedder, told by the legendary Pedder people themselves. Episodes explore the...
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Darkest Mystery – William Serjeantson and Henry Hunt
On Monday 30 November 1835, a murder occurred near Campbell Town, but it took several months, some corrupt falsehoods, and a good...
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Indigenous Afterlives in Britain
Readers are advised this article contains content relating to violent colonial practices and deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which some...
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Antarctic Expeditioners Embark on Mawson’s Hut Mission
A team of conservation experts will venture to Australia’s remotest Antarctic outpost to carry out works on the relics of our first...
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How ‘Lady Swindler’ Alexandrina Askew Triumphed over the Convict Stain
John Skinner Prout’s 1849 painting of the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, where Alexandrina bore an illegitimate child. Wikimedia...
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Tongerlongeter — the Tasmanian Resistance fighter we should Remember as a War Hero
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. Australians love their war heroes....
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How Dark Emu Debate Limits Representation of Aboriginal People
Anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, recently published a book titled Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. This book offers...
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Indigenous People ‘Erased’ By Maps of Settlers
How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people and push ideas of colonial superiority The new Netflix series Shadow and...
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kanamaluka – the Fascinating Tamar Estuary
The Royal Society of Tasmania: 25th April 2021 – The Annual QVMAG Staff Lecture. Dr Christine Hansen Telling the Stories of kanamaluka...
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Hidden History of Chinese-Australian Women
‘Your government makes us go’: the hidden history of Chinese-Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws Chinese-Australian history is primarily...
