Friday essay: on the trail of the London thylacines
- Written by Penny Edmonds, Associate Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Tasmania
Thylacine joey, from the collections of the Natural History Museum, LondonPenny Edmonds
On a cold, dark night in the winter of June 2017, hundreds of people gathered on the lawns of Hobart’s parliament house to join a procession that carried an effigy of a giant Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) to be ritually burnt at Macquarie Point.
In an act...
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