An Aboriginal activist has interrogated forestry company staff over their knowledge of cultural heritage as part of her defence against a trespass charge.

Key Tasmanian Aboriginal leaders say they were not consulted on a plan to rename the electorate of Franklin after a Tasmanian ...

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 ...

A small parcel of public parkland could be returned to Tasmanian Aboriginal community, if a vote from Hobart City Council ...

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 ...

A looming council vote could be the first step in the return of land to Aboriginal people and the creation of a ...

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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 ...