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Name
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Cape Barren Island Reserve
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Type of carceral site
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Reserve, Station, or Mission
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Dates of use
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1881 – 1951
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Quote
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I am known as Jim Everett. I am puralia meenamatta. My home is on Cape Barren Island off the north-east coast of Tasmania, and one of the fifty-two islands of the Furneaux Group. [...]. In 1969, the Tasmanian Government, who said, ‘We’ve achieved genocide,’ took $10,000 off the Commonwealth Government, of Aboriginal Affairs money, to relocate Aboriginal people from Cape Barren Island onto the main island. They bought a heap of derelict houses from the housing department that were earmarked for destruction, and they put our families in those derelict houses.
Essay.
Everett, Jim. "Savage Nation: First Nations' Philosophy and Sovereignty." Southerly, vol. 74 no. 2 2014, p. 30.
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Calm to violent, sweet to salty, alive to dead. That is the islands. This duality, I had come to understand, was ingrained in this place.
Short story.
Thompson, Adam. "Aboriginal Alcatraz." Born Into This. University of Queensland Press, 2021, p. 117.
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The torch wasn’t very good because the batteries were nearly out. I said to her, ‘Jump.’ She said, ‘What are you jumping for?’ I said, ‘There’s an extra gum root on the road.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a snake. At certain times they travel of a night.’ So we jumped and we turned around to have a look. When we put the torch on it, it was moving. We kind of knew how many gum roots there were on the road—so there was always these stories.
Autobiography.
West, Ida. Pride Against Prejudice: Reminiscences of a Tasmanian Aborigine . Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987, p. 109.
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Authority
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Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912: Tasmanian Government.
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name
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Cape Barren Island Reserve
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alternateName
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Truwana
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identifier
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SITE-CPIR
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language
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Palawa Kani
Unknown
English
