Cassandra Pybus

Jan 11, 2025 | examiner.com.au | Declan Durrant |Cassandra Pybus |Robbie Arnott

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Jul 31, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Cassandra Pybus

William Crowther recently flashed across the international media firmament when his statue was toppled from its pedestal in Hobart’s Franklin Square. Crowther, a former state premier, was the man who stole the skull of the last Tasmanian man back in 1869. But this colonial surgeon was merely the last in a line of Hobart surgeons who together donated around twenty Tasmanian skulls to British museums.

Apr 30, 2024 | dymocks.com.au | Cassandra Pybus

Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. Collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania in the nineteenth century. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and the platypus. But they were not just interested in animals and plants.

Sep 22, 2023 | examiner.com.au | Cassandra Pybus

Requesting a voice to parliament has a long and sorrowful history for the First People of Australia. At the first federal parliament in Canberra, opened on 9 May 1927 by the Duke of York (later King George VI), two Wiradjuri elders, known as Jimmy Clements and John Noble, walked 93 miles from the shameful Brungle Aboriginal Station to voice their sovereign rights. No-one listened.

Sep 21, 2023 | theadvocate.com.au | Cassandra Pybus

Requesting a First Nations voice to government has a long and sorrowful history. In November 1830, in the colony of Van Diemen's Land the legendary leader of the north-east nation, Mannalargenna, agreed to end his resistance to the colonists when promised he could present to the governor his grievances about occupation of his country and killing of his people. With this formal assurance, he agreed that his people could be temporarily removed to an offshore island in the Bass Strait.