When Tasmania's wilderness was nominated for World Heritage listing in 1982, a key document said Tasmanian Aboriginal people were 'an extinct race of humans'. Four decades on, the 'offensive and inaccurate' myth has been corrected.
An "offensive and inaccurate" historic document that falsely claimed Tasmanian Aboriginal people no longer exist has been pulled from UNESCO's World Heritage websiteThe UN agency is next month expected to adopt an updated version of the document, which acknowledges the continuous connection of First Nations people to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
"The nominated site includes three national parks … which together comprise one of the world's last remaining temperate pristine wildernesses," it stated. The thylacine has been officially extinct since 1986, after being hunted in huge numbers folliwing European colonisation of Tasmania. The Tasmanian and Australian governments had not previously raised the issue, and nor had UNESCO refused to amend the document, they said.
Ms Digney said Tasmanian Aboriginal people had been trying to combat the myth of extinction since the death of Truganini in 1876. "The document said that Tasmanian Aborigines 'are extinct as a people', and that is wrong, it's hurtful," Ms Plibersek said.
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