Restoring and Resisting Tasmania’s Past

University of Tasmania staff, Andy Terhell and Libby Lester, joined volunteers organised by the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania to restore an old shearing shed at Wybalenna on Flinders Island. The Land Council will use the shed, moved to the site in the 1930s, for gatherings, including to hear community voices on the future of Wybalenna, where 200 Aboriginal people were forced into exile at the end of Tasmania’s so-called Black War. Our role was to document the restoration project for the ALCT and for the public.