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 ...

An Aboriginal activist has interrogated forestry company staff over their knowledge of cultural heritage as part of her ...

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 ...

An Aboriginal leader has branded as “entrenched racism” a draft Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage Act to replace current ...

A Tasmanian Aboriginal woman charged with trespass after a protest against native forest logging has accused the state’s ...

American farmer and poet Wendell Berry said of the first Europeans in North America that they came with vision, but not with sight. They came with vision of former places but not the sight to see what ...

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 ...

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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 ...

More than 100 Aboriginal tools have been covered over by upgrades to a fire break trail that is also used for walking and cycling in a Launceston reserve. Aboriginal Heritage Tasmania, the government ...

At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with "the Aboriginal ...