In 2016, the Tasmanian government scrapped the three-pronged criteria used to determine Aboriginality. Where people had previously needed to provide documentary evidence of Aboriginal ancestry, the new rules only require self-identification and communal recognition.
The new system was ostensibly more inclusive: While the three-point system was simple enough for many Aboriginal people to navigate, for others — for example, members of the Stolen Generations — documentary evidence was often far trickier.
