palawa kani is based on surviving spoken and written remnants of the island’s original languages. Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, ...

Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years Read more from Guardian Australia’s Speaking to country ...

During British colonization of Tasmania which began in the early 1800s, the Aboriginal people living on the island located to the south of Australia’s mainland not only suffered loss of life, but also ...

Her great-great-grandmother is the source of the only audio recordings of the now sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages – and June Sculthorpe is determined to wake them up. Fanny is the source of ...

Three Tasmanian Aboriginal children have starred in a new animated television series, broadcast in a revived form of the original Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The new animated television series ...

"I'm Fanny Smith. I was born on Flinders Island. I am the daughter of Tangnarootoora, of the East Coast Tribe. I am just 70 years of age." Nearly 120 years after Tasmanian Aboriginal woman Fanny ...

Environment minister Peter Garrett announced on August 10 that $9 million will be spent on rescuing 100 Aboriginal languages. However, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre condemned the plan as "cynical ...

SYDNEY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sandstone rock shelters sitting on Tasmania's Mount Wellington were built by indigenous tribes thousands of years ago, but it was only in 2014 that the ...