William Crowther: controversial statue toppled in Hobart one night before removal decision due

Controversial monument of a Tasmanian premier who beheaded the body of an Indigenous man damaged and graffitied

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A controversial statue of William Crowther has been toppled in Franklin Square, Hobart, after its legs were cut through the night before a ruling to remove the statue was delivered.

It was dumped face-down on the ground beside its podium, which was graffitied in red with the word decolonize" and what goes around".