First Nation campaigns over many years have led to a Hobart City Council planning committee vote in favour of the removal of statue of William Crowther, Tasmanian Premier from 1878–1879. Crowther, who was a surgeon as well as a politician, cut off and stole the skull of William Lane, replacing the Aboriginal man’s head with another from a different corpse.
Read more in Lucy MacDonald’s story posted on ABC online on 24 August 2023:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-24/william-crowther-statue-to-be-removed-from-display/102737854