Tasmania Police search for vehicle occupants who fled officers | The Examiner
In a public statement last night, Tasmania Police claimed this was an isolated incident "with no threat to the wider community".
Source: examiner.com.au
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'The Australian Wars': Documenting the violence of colonisation
Award-winning Arrente and Kalkadoon filmmaker, Rachel Perkins' 2022 series, The Australian Wars, documents Australia’s frontier wars, asking the audience to grapple with our past and how it might shape a shared future, writes Leo Earle.
Source: greenleft.org.au
The Australian Wars review – a furious exposé of a place that celebrates murderous white settlers
Wide-ranging, unflinching and horrifying, this documentary lets Indigenous people speak out about centuries of legalised killing. No wonder it created shockwaves
Australian Capital Territory United Kingdom Warwick Thornton Samson Rachel Perkins Rodney Dillon Leah Purcell
Source: theguardian.com
Why was this Darlington roundabout on University Challenge?
ALL Darlington should have been shouting at their television sets last Tuesday evening as Jeremy Paxman quizzed students on University Challenge…
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk
Microsoft Flight Simulator has prettied-up Australia in a free update
Australia is refreshed in MS Flight Sim with the launch of World Update 7, adding almost a hundred handcraft landmarks and improving the terrain.
Source: rockpapershotgun.com
Push to change name of Tasmania's Batman Bridge, north of Launceston
Print text only Cancel The Launceston City Council has thrown its support behind a growing push to rename the Batman Bridge in Tasmanias north as Aboriginal leaders call for "white-washed history" to be undone. Key points: The Launceston City Council will lobby the state government to change the name of Batman Bridge The bridge is named after John Batman, who killed at least a dozen Aboriginal Tasmanians in the 1800s It comes as other places in the state receive dual names or are completely ren...
Source: abc.net.au
'Good on them': Tas Land Council chairman welcomes council motion to change bridge name
The Launceston City Council has voted to appeal to the Tasmanian Government to change the name of the Batman Bridge. Chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council and trawlwoolway man Michael Mansell told NITV he was happy with the Launceston City Council’s decision. “Good on them,” he said. “Well done Launceston City Council, because a local government that is as big as the Hobart City Council, or the Launceston City Council, any decision they make in this context would be ver...
Source: sbs.com.au
'We've seen disrespect and ignorance': Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre to offer no more words for dual naming
Share on Twitter The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) says it will not offer any more words in the Tasmanian Aboriginal language palawa kani for dual naming purposes. This week, Tasmanias Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) announced that new Aboriginal and dual names had been approved for 15 places in the state. But Campaign Manager with the TAC Nala Mansell said none of the newly approved names are palawa kani. “Over the years we’ve thou...
Source: sbs.com.au