Hobart city council votes to remove statue of colonial figure eight votes to two
The statue of a former Tasmanian premier who beheaded the body of an Aboriginal man will be taken down after passing a final vote.morgue in 1869, removed the skull of William Lanne and sent it to the Royal College of Surgeons in London.Lanne, also known as King Billy, was a whaler and the partner of Truganini and a well-respected Aboriginal activist. He died in 1869, at the age of 34 from cholera and dysentery.
But on Wednesday night Hobart city council voted to remove the statue, 8-2, but the statue’s fiercest supporter, Councillor Louise Elliot, missed the vote because she was appearing on Sky News. Hobart’s lord mayor, Anna Reynolds, said that, during Crowther’s period, Hobart’s medical fraternity broadly embraced phrenology, a pseudoscience that many scientists believed affirmed European superiority over other races. Phrenology, used to justify atrocities such as slavery, involved comparing the skulls of people from different ethnicities.
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