• Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of Indigenous Australians who have died
The photograph on the wall of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in Launceston was taken 167 years ago. It shows a group of people including the most famous Palawa woman, Trukanini, at a barracks at Putalina/Oyster Cove. They are survivors of Wybalenna, the barren Flinders Island internment camp where 300 Aboriginal Tasmanians captured by government-sponsored roving parties were exiled in the 1830s. All but 47 died.
