Tag: Cape Barren Island 7257
Green power for Cape Barren
A group of Aborigines on Cape Barren Island will soon have access to renewable energy.[MORE]
Islanders fear hunger as barge ban continues
Cape Barren Island residents, off Tasmania's north east coast are concerned they'll be left hungry and without fuel if a stand off between the State Government and a shipping company continues.[MORE]
Animal welfare activists hope video ends mutton-birding
A Tasmanian animal welfare group says its obtained footage of mutton-bird killing which it hopes will help in a campaign to ban the recreational activity.[MORE]
Stolen Generations claimants announced
The Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon has announced 106 people will share in a $5 million scheme to compensate the state's Stolen Generations.[MORE]
Stolen Generation compo process nears end
A $5 million scheme to compensate Tasmania's Aboriginal stolen generations is entering its final stages.[MORE]
Cape Barren murder appeal dismissed
A man jailed for a shooting murder on Cape Barren Island in 2005 has had his application for a re-trial dismissed.[MORE]
Cape Barren murder appeal in court
A Hobart court has heard a jury reached an unsafe and unreasonable verdict in finding a 38-year-old man guilty of murder last year.[MORE]
Shipwreck survivors' camp to be excavated
Archaeologists have won a Federal Government grant to excavate the camp used by the survivors of Tasmania's first shipwreck.[MORE]
Man found guilty of murder on Cape Barren Island
A 38-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering an acquaintance on Cape Barren Island, off Tasmania, last year in an argument over a cask of wine.[MORE]
Grant to fund health centre for Cape Barren Is
Tasmania's Cape Barren Island will have a new health and wellbeing centre by the end of the year.[MORE]
Aborigines push for final land grants' settlement
Tasmanian Aborigines plan to push for what they are calling a final settlement of land grants a handover of 53,000 hectares on Bass Strait islands.[MORE]
Island ownership set for return to Indigenous community
The ownership of Cape Barren and Clarke Islands in the Furneaux Group of Islands will be officially handed to the Aboriginal community next week.[MORE]
