RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Dr Jarrod Hodgson, Dr Julie McInnes, and Dr Hannah Dawson, Heard Island expeditioners during 2025 and 2026, will join in a panel discussion regarding recent findings from Heard Island, in Hobart on Sunday 2 August 2026.
Dr Jarrod Hodgson is a spatial ecologist studying the use of technologies in environmental monitoring. Dr Julie McInnes is a research associate in the ecology of Southern Ocean seabirds and mammals’ conservation and management. Dr Dawson is a physical oceanographer examining the large-scale circulation and dynamics of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic margins.
More details to be come later.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.