A statue of a Tasmanian colonist has been covered up. Should it ever return?
by Sarah Aitken from World news | The Guardian on (#5PKJ4)
Amid a global call to tear down offensive statues, one Australian city council is asking: what do we do with ours?
A large bronze statue of a noble-looking white man stands in a park in central nipaluna/Hobart. Adjacent to the city's bus mall, it honours William Lodewyk Crowther, a doctor and early premier of Tasmania.
Crowther is praised on the accompanying plaque for his long and zealous political and professional service in this colony." But the plaque makes no mention of William Lanne, the palawa leader whose corpse he mutilated and skull he stole.
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