A city council in Australia has voted to remove a statue of William Crowther, a former premier of the state of Tasmania, who decapitated the body of an Aboriginal man.

A monument to a British explorer that’s stood in Sydney’s Hyde Park for 138 years is at the center of a debate that’s becoming louder and more divisive about how the country remembers its past.

A statue of renowned surgeon-turned-premier William Crowther had loomed over the park in Hobart ... Tasmania had become the centre of coloniser efforts to eradicate Aboriginal people in Australia.

Activists in Australia have toppled the statue of a colonial governor who exhumed the body of an Aboriginal man for scientific study. The bronze statue of William Crowther, which has stood in a ...

Disrupting the narrative: the case for taking Australia’s colonial statues down. When you challenge the idea of peaceful settlement in Australia, one thing is guaranteed: there’ll be hell to pay.

Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A city council in Australia has voted to remove a statue of William Crowther, a former premier of the state of Tasmania, who decapitated the body of an Aboriginal man ...

A city council in Australia has voted to remove a statue of William Crowther, a former premier of the state of Tasmania, who decapitated the body of an Aboriginal man.