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But memories of colonial project to wipe out Tasmania’s natives boost yes campaign on island

A bloody colonial past and Liberal support for a yes vote inform the debate in the only state where the campaign in favour has recently remained ahead

Indigenous communities have campaigned for the right to a permanent place in the country’s constitution. A crucial referendum looms. But have conservatives stopped listening?

Indigenous communities have campaigned for the right to a permanent place in the country’s constitution. A crucial referendum looms. But have conservatives stopped listening?

Elders are teaching Aboriginal Tasmanians how to care for country as part of a plan to build a ready workforce of rangers as land hand-backs progress.    

Eventbrites fee is nonrefundable. Event description Aboriginallaunceston.com.au website shows the lifeworld of the Tamar Valleys First Nations. It is the first such site in Australia. About this event The Launceston region attracted white settlement because it was fertile and so well managed by its First Nation inhabitants. Aboriginallaunceston.com.au is a website created by researchers, including elder Aunty Patsy Cameron, to show the lifeworld of the Tamar Valleys first people. It ...

Normal text size Very large text size When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. She’d “crashed and burned”, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworth...