It will write to the City of Launceston council and the West Tamar Council to request collaboration and ask the state government for permission to place the sculpture and plaque at the site.

It proposes commemorating the Northern Midlands First Nations people, the Litarimirina people who stretched from Low Head to Launceston and both sides of the kanamaluka/Tamar river.

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Councillor Peter Parkes put forward the motion at the council's last meeting and said it was a wonderful opportunity for it to lead the way.

"I think it's no secret that for many decades that particular area has been an area of great connection for the Aboriginal community," he said.

"We have a chance to show that our Aboriginal community does matter and that they have a voice in the process and that we are commemorating their long 65,000 year history at this particular place as a starting point.

"I understand that there is contention and that this doesn't address the contention around naming. This is about recognising ... the Indigenous/Aboriginal history."

Calls to rename the bridge resurfaced last year after a global push to tear down monuments of racist historical figures, with John Batman's part in the genocide of Aboriginal people behind the name change push.

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Cr Greg Dawson seconded the motion and said it was important both sides of history were acknowledged.

"It's a part of just letting [the Indigenous community] know, we see you, we hear you, we know that we weren't here first and we need to recognise that and the history pre-white settlement," he said.

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