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Tasmania is known as Lutruwita in palawa kani the language of the Palawa people.
Key Organisations
The TAC is an Aboriginal community organisation developed in the early 1970s and funded by the federal government since 1973. It was incorporated as the Aboriginal Information Service in November 1973 and changed its name to Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) in August 1977, and officially to Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation in 2016, but still trading as the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
Source: Little Yarns: ABC
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"The fact that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have been, and continue to be, treated as outcasts from white society yet denied recognition of their true identity is because white people constructed the lie of genocide" - Jim Everett
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