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tasmania: aborgines down and under

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania drew to its grim conclusion. All that was left was some bleached bones of a vanished people… Truganini was the very last. Her life had spanned to the year the association between Europeans … Continue reading →

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tasmania: the last of the last

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under and the extinction of Tasmania’s aborigines…. The last male aborigine was an alcoholic whaling man, “King Billy” Lanney, who became a public spectacle in his later years, was shown off at government functions, photographed by … Continue reading →

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tasmania: dismal endings without new beginnings

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…Now the end was near for the Tasmanian race. The forty-four survivors- twelve men, twenty-two women, ten young people – were taken to an unused penal settlement at Oyster Cove, twenty five miles from Hobart and only fifteen miles from … Continue reading →

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tasmania: arriving at divine satisfaction

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

George Augustus Robinson had the aborigines of Tasmania transferred to Flinders Island, where doomed and dispirited they met their demise… …Robinson also inculcated in his wards, dependent for the past few millenniums entirely on hunting and scavenging, a more suitable … Continue reading →

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tasmania: best laid plans…

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …It was perhaps the most farcical campaign in the history of British imperial arms. The plan called for a steady advance on a front that would begin by being 120 miles long, but … Continue reading →

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tasmania: talking about the word extinct

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

Providing a final solution to the problem of the Tasmanian aborigines… …all were reaching the conclusion that life in Tasmania would be much happier if there were no Tasmanians. The Reverend Thomas Atkins, after a visit to Van Diemen’s Land … Continue reading →