The Latest Breaking News from William Lanne

Colonial premier's statue toppled, spray-painted

A statue of former Tasmanian premier William Crowther, which a council had voted to taken down, has been spray painted and cut off at the ankles.

AAP · May 15, 2024

Research Reveals Victorian Collector Traded Human Remains For Scientific Fame

Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains robbed from their graves and pelts of Tasmanian tigers for scientific accolade

Zenger · Nov 29, 2023

How colonial violence in Tasmania helped build scientists' reputations and prestigious museum collections

Readers are advised this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died, and mentions attempted genocide, violence towards and offensive language about Aboriginal peoples.

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2023

Hobart council to remove divisive statue

Hobart City Council has voted to take down the statue of former premier William Crowther who stole the skull of an Aboriginal man in the 1860s.

AAP · Aug 15, 2022

Hobart council to vote to determine if William Crowther statue to be removed, amid continuing debate on gruesome past

Surgeon and later Tasmanian premier William Crowther snuck into a morgue and stole the head of Indigenous man William Lanne. Now, Hobart's council will vote tonight on whether his prominent city-centre statue should be torn down.

ABC News · Aug 14, 2022

Hobart divided over statue of man who stole Indigenous skull, as council votes on removal

William Lodewyk Crowther, later premier of Tasmania, mutilated the corpse of Aboriginal man William Lanne in 1869

The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2022

Tasmanian premier's statue could go

Hobart City Council has been told to vote to remove the statue of a former Tasmanian premier who mutilated the corpse of an Aboriginal man in 1869.

AAP · Aug 5, 2022