SYDNEY, July 22 (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 ...

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 ...

During British colonization of Tasmania which began in the early 1800s, the Aboriginal people living on the island located to the south of Australia’s mainland not only suffered loss of life, but also ...

Although the Black Line was considered a failure, Aboriginal survivors of the Black War were then exiled to Wybalenna, a settlement on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. Displaced, traumatized, and ...

Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years Read more from Guardian Australia’s Speaking to country ...

Members of the Aboriginal community in Tasmania have gathered at Wybalenna on Flinders Island in Bass Strait to see the work ...

THE TAC will ask auction house Sotheby’s to abandon the sale of rare photographic prints of Tasmania’s last full-blood Aborigines. The historically significant prints are part of a large cat­alogue of ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...

Reuben Oates has lodged a complaint with the Anti-Discrimination Commission against the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) and eight members of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community, including key ...