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

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.

Every time Palawa woman Nala Mansell walks past the statue of former Tasmanian premier William Crowther, she says, it is "a reminder of the atrocities committed to William Lanne". WARNING: Aborigina… [+8701 chars]

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