Tasmanian Aborigines want the State Government to hand over a proportion of land tax revenue. Representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre met Premier Lara Giddings this morning to discuss ...

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 ...

It has been two decades since substantial land hand-backs in Tasmania, so private owners are doing it instead. Near Hobart, a ...

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 ...

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre state secretary Trudy Maluga has welcomed Mr Hodgman’s new direction in relations with the community, reiterated in last week’s State of the State address. But she says an ...

What killed the Tasmanian Aborigines? When British colonists arrived in 1803, the island’s indigenous people numbered a few thousand. Thirty years later, about 100 remained. Most historians blame ...

Tasmanian-born Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ruth Langford – also known as Tipruthanna – says she is “exceedingly disappointed” by the landmark court decision. She described it as a missed ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) -- London's Natural History Museum struck a deal to hand over a set of 17 Tasmanian Aborigine remains to a native rights' group, the museum said Thursday. The 19th century remains -- ...