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Aboriginal activist Emma Lee: tackling Tasmania's fraught and bloody history


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When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. She’d “crashed and burned”, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmania’s north-west coast. For 18 months she healed, slowly rebuilding herself and, from behind the kiosk counter, finding the inspiration for a new approach to Aboriginal rights – a method that would, only four years later, start to bear fruit with then Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman. ....

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Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years


Rare soldier s diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years
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McNally s diary is the only account by an ordinary soldier of life in the penal colonies, says Professor Sharpe.
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A soldier s diary disintegrating in Ireland s national library has revealed disturbing evidence of an undocumented massacre of Aboriginal people in Tasmania in the colony s early years.
The diary belonged to Private Robert McNally, posted to Van Diemen s Land in the 1820s, and records in gritty detail colonial life and encounters with settlers and a notorious bushranger.
But it s his account of his part in the cover up a massacre of men and women on March 21, 1827, near Campbell Town in the Northern Midlands, that stunned University of Tasmania history professor Pam Sharpe. ....

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