Congratulations Professor Anya Reading!
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
We may think of the Plateau as consisting of two main,
nearly horizontal, layers of rock resting on a basement of older,
steeply tilted rocks. The surface layer, a few hundred metres
thick, is dolerite about 165 million years old. This was injected
into marine and non-marine sedimentary rocks deposited during
a span of about 90 million years beginning about 290 million
years ago. The part of this sequence originally over the dolerite
has been removed by erosion, that beneath the dolerite is
preserved as an almost continuous band around the northern base
of the Plateau from Travellers Range to Table Mountain. The
basement consists of metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks
some older than 570 million years, intruded by granite over 480
million years ago and again about 345 million years ago, and
folded into a mountain range about 370 million years ago.
Published Papers
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 Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
