Tasmanians have marked the executions of two Aboriginal men, nicknamed Dick and Jack, on the 200th anniversary of their ...

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 ...

Tasmanian elder Aunty Patsy Cameron has died, leaving behind a legacy of improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal ...

The continued injustices faced by Tasmanian Aboriginal people have been laid bare to the international community in a report filed by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) to the United Nations.

One of Tasmania’s most respected Aboriginal elders is being remembered as a “living treasure” and for improving educational ...

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 ...

A Hobart-based solicitor built his reputation as "the foremost scientist in the colony" in the mid-1800s, despite limited contributions to scientific knowledge. Morton Allport achieved his status by ...

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 ...

In the southern Australian state of Tasmania, hundreds of white people are claiming to have aboriginal ancestry. Do they really, or are they making the claim, as some Blacks charge, to gain access to ...

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 ...