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tasmania: dismal endings without new beginnings

…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

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: they died by the dozens

Transferring the Tasmanians to Flinders Island, restricting their movement, and dousing them with grim, Dickens era Christianity … …Some two hundred Tasmanians were sent to Wybalenna, and there, slowly, far away and out of sight, forgotten by the settlers, guarded … Continue reading

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tasmania: clouds from the past

Tasmania and the final solution down under…. “Our forbears,” a Tasmanian lady named Mrs. Charles Meredith wrote in 1852, “were British farmers and country gentlemen, not usually considered a desperately ferocious and blood-thirsty class.” The myth has since been assiduously … Continue reading

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final solution down under

The final solution down under. ” I regret the death of the last of the Tasmanian aborigines,” wrote one of the pious mourners when the race had finally become extinct,”but I know that it is the result of the fiat … Continue reading

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