Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide
- Written by Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania
The painting Group of Natives of Tasmania, 1859, by Robert Dowling.
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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 problem”. If the colony could not protect its convict...
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