Uncle Jim, supported by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and the Bob Brown Foundation, says colonial Australia has no jurisdiction to charge or try him for defending Palawa law.
Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The results found the first Tasmanian Aboriginal people (Palawa) arrived more than 41,600 years ago, almost 2,000 years earlier than previously documented. Pollen from laymina paywuta. Picture ...
When the first Palawa/Pakana (Tasmanian Indigenous) communities eventually reached Tasmania (known to the Palawa people as Lutruwita), it was the furthest south humans had ever settled.
Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones The program will give Tasmanian Aboriginal people access to a diverse range of skills and experiences from obtaining boat licenses, deck hand and diving, through to ...