A new biography does profound service to this remarkable First Nations woman, whose life is so often reduced to tropes Too many prominent Indigenous figures are recalled in popular myth and history as ...

It is an indication of the "underlying racism in this country" that a monument to famous Tasmanian Indigenous woman Truganini has been vandalised with an image of English explorer Captain James Cook, ...

Her remarkable story has regularly been reduced to the falsehood of being 'the last palawa Aboriginal'. In reality, she was a warrior, diplomat, fugitive, mother and lover during one of the world's ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. In 1839, George Augustus Robinson arrived in Melbourne as Chief Protector of ...

History Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse Cassandra Pybus Allen & Unwin, $32.99 ‘‘Truganini.’’ Merely to utter her name is to conjure the truth of Australia’s violent foundation. Long a symbol ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Cassandra Pybus is, of course, delighted to have won the $25,000 National Biography Award for ...

To Tasmania's Aboriginal community it is "racist art", an enduring symbol of the persecution, murder and dispossession their ancestors suffered under white colonial rule. More than 130 years after her ...

In March, George Augustus Robinson, a 38-year-old bricklayer and spec builder with connections to the Church Missionary Society, London, arrived on Bruny Island. Employed as ‘storekeeper’, he was part ...

Before the French arrived, this place was called Lyleatea. It was an important ritual site for the ­Nuenonne, who journeyed in bark canoes from the long offshore island to the north they knew as ...

Tensions are rising over the auction tonight of busts depicting two renowned Tasmanian Aborigines. The busts of chief Woureddy and his wife Truganini will go under the hammer in Melbourne. They are ...