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Twenty-five years ago the tight-knit community of the Tasman Peninsula was thrust into the international spotlight.
Kelly Spaulding was working on a farm at Saltwater River as a 19-year-old on April 28, 1996 when he heard low-flying helicopters pass overhead.
He didn t know it then but they were carrying people from the Port Arthur historic site where a gunman had gone on a rampage. The communications were pretty non-existent, Mr Spaulding, now the region s mayor, told AAP. It wasn t until I knocked off work and went to the local shop. they said there d been a shooting at Port Arthur.
Martin Bryant (pictured) killed 35 people and injured a further 23 when he went on a rampage in Port Arthur in Tasmania almost 25 years to the day
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Subscriber only Tony Rundle vividly recalls flying towards Hobart on that autumn day in 1996, a sick sense of foreboding hanging over him. The then-premier of Tasmania had been preparing to drive from his farm outside Devonport in the state s north-west to the capital ready for the week s Parliamentary sitting. It was Sunday, April 28. A phone call came through about 2.30pm from my chief of staff saying there were reports of an incident at Port Arthur, Rundle, now aged 82, told News Corp.
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The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) says it will not offer any more words in the Tasmanian Aboriginal language palawa kani for dual naming purposes.
This week, Tasmania s Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) announced that new Aboriginal and dual names had been approved for 15 places in the state.
But Campaign Manager with the TAC Nala Mansell said none of the newly approved names are palawa kani.
“Over the years we’ve thought it was important to share some of our language words with the general public, which is why we participated in the dual naming process, Ms Mansell told SBS News.