A controversial hotel development in Tasmania will now include a floor dedicated to the area's Indigenous past — but Aboriginal people say it's not their story to tell.
abc.net.au/news/aboriginal-groups-hit-out-at-kangaroo-bay-changes/102103724A controversial hotel development at Kangaroo Bay on Hobart's eastern shore has been revised to include a floor dedicated to the area's Indigenous past — but an Aboriginal expert on the area says it's not their story to tell.
Nunami Sculthorpe-Green is a palawa and walpiri woman, who runs walking tours focusing on Indigenous heritage in the Kangaroo Bay area."It was a really rich cultural landscape," she said. The owner of Blak Led Tours said the bay was home to many Indigenous people and a camp site for "resistance fighters".
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre's Nala Mansell said no-one had approached her organisation to discuss the new Indigenous component of the project. The development was going to include a hospitality school but Tas TAFE and the University of Tasmania pulled out.
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