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Ethan James

Indigenous activist 'obliged to save slaughtered kin'

Indigenous activist Ruth Langford is facing a trespass charge over an anti-forestry protest. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

An Aboriginal activist accused of trespassing during an anti-logging protest says she had a reasonable excuse to be there and it is her cultural obligation to protect "slaughtered kin".

Ruth Langford was in May denied an application to have a Hobart Magistrates Court hearing moved from its regular location to a culturally significant place on Country.

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