“We don’t want to celebrate a time in our history when scientists and doctors wanted to prove theories of European superiority (and) wanted to rank people by their race”
A historical statue of William Crowther, a politician who led Tasmania in the late 1870s, will be removed, as part of what the current mayor called"the process of truthtelling" about the island state.Politicians at Hobart, the capital of the island state of Tasmania, Australia, voted on August 15, 2022 to take down a 132-year-old statue.
Hobart's Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds said it was "part of the process of truthtelling" about the history of Tasmania, a state where the Aboriginal population was decimated by disease and brutality after white settlement. “ does not change history. The records, the books, the articles, the stories all remain unchanged,” Reynolds“We don’t want to celebrate a time in our history when scientists and doctors wanted to prove theories of European superiority wanted to rank people by their race.A surgeon by trade, Crowther in 1869 mutilated the body of a deceased Aboriginal man, William "King Billy" Lanne, removing his skull and replacing it with that of another person.
Crowther's actions outraged many, and sparked new laws requiring all medical experiments to have prior consent from the deceased or their family - yet within a decade, the controversial surgeon was elected state premier.
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