General Overview of Tasmania
Aboriginal Culture
Animals and Plants
Conventions
Equal Access
Employment for Travellers
Facts and Figures
Frequently Asked Questions
Gay and Lesbian Visitors
Moving to Tasmania
Our Islands
Reading Up
Studying in Tasmania
Travel Business/Investing
In 1977 the Tasmanian Aboriginal Information Service (now the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre) presented a petition to the Tasmanian Parliament asking for Land Rights.
Years of hard work and protest by the Aboriginal community in Tasmania paid off with the return of 12 parcels of land. Parliament passed the Aboriginal Lands Bill on 2 November, 1995. The ceremony took place at Risdon Cove, just across the Derwent River from Hobart, where the land title documents were handed over on 10 December 1995.
On 10 May 2005, 139 years after the Aboriginal community first asked for ownership of Cape Barren Island, Paul Lennon, Premier of Tasmania, officially handed back to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community of Cape Barren and Clarke Islands title to 45,000 hectares (approx 110,000 acres) of Cape Barren Island and 11,000 hectares (approx 27,200 acres) of Clarke Island. The areas include the Clarke Island Nature Reserve, an area of land on Goose Island.
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