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.
The statue’s removal would be the first of its kind in Australia, and would advance Hobart’s “standing as a welcoming and inclusive city,” the council said in a statement. Crowther, who was Tasmanian premier in 1878-79, was accused of decapitating the body of Aboriginal man William Lanne and sending his skull to the Royal College of Surgeons in London. As a result of the accusation, he was suspended from his role as an honorary medical officer at the Hobart General Hospital in March 1869.
They also asked the council several years ago to consider the removal of Crowther’s statue from its place in Franklin Square in the heart of the city as an act of reconciliation, Hobart’s Lord Mayor, Anna Reynolds, said in a statement on the council’s website. “Crowther was certainly not the only person making transactions in this discredited field of ‘racial science,’” Reynolds added.
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