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It was the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuenonne, or 'South-East' tribe, who were first affected by European settlement, as Hobart Town was founded in their traditional hunting grounds. The Nuenonne had no permanent settlements at Sullivans Cove, or anywhere else in Tasmania, living as nomadic hunter-gatherers. Early ...
Taroona was the closest suburb to the city of Hobart to take the full brunt of the fires, which swept across the suburb in the mid afternoon, wreaking havoc, and destroying many homes. Children and residents fled to the river, and many people's survival was due to the refuge the safe waters provided.
The traditional view held that this dramatic demographic collapse was the result of the impact of introduced diseases, rather than the consequence of policy. [10] Geoffrey Blainey , for example, wrote that by 1830 in Tasmania: "Disease had killed most of them but warfare and private violence had also been devastating."
The distinction between traditional custodians and traditional owners is made by some, but not all, First Nations Australians. [49] [50] On one hand, Yuwibara man Philip Kemp states that he would "prefer to be identified as a Traditional Custodian and not a Traditional Owner as I do not own the land but I care for the land."
Robert Hobart May (c.1801 – ? 23 March 1832) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian of the Mouheneener clan who, as a very young child, survived the 1804 Risdon Cove massacre to become the first Indigenous Tasmanian person to be baptised and live in colonial British society.
Robert Hobart May (c.1801 - ?1832) ... Nipper Winmarti (c. 1920 - 1993) a Pitjantjatjara man and Traditional Owner of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
The traditional owners of the land through which the railway runs were the Lyluequonny people. This clan of the South East nation occupied an area centred on what is now called Recherche Bay. In 1793 French scientists on the d’Entrecasteaux expedition encountered the Lyluequonny.
1954: Spouses of property owners get right to vote in Legislative Council elections; 1955: Royal commission appointed to inquire into University of Tasmania after request by Professor Sydney Orr; 1955: House of Assembly gets first two women members, Liberals Mabel Miller and Amelia Best; 1955: Hobart becomes first Australian city to get parking ...