The removal of monuments that celebrate colonial figureheads who showed disrespect to First Nations people requires 'broad and open discussion', says a North West Aboriginal organisation.
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Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation general manager Paul Roberts said any case for the possible removal of statues would need widespread consultation and analysis.
He said a truth-telling of the history was essential.
"As an organisation, we don't accept that monuments to racists and people who have been involved in harming indigenous people are appropriate," Mr Roberts said.
"Depending on the circumstances of what information and evidence is available, we would obviously support removal in those instances," he said.
"At the end of the day, it needs to be something that is talked through with the community. We think its needs to be a broad and open discussion."
Mr Roberts added that the corporation did not support the process that surrounded the vote to remove a statue of former Premier William Crowther in Hobart.
"We don't believe that the facts have actually been properly presented, they have just been reinterpreted," he said.
The debate around the removal of such 'racist' monuments was recently raised in Launceston, where a plaque on a government building commemorating Abel Tasman was seen to be offensive because it stated the discovery of Tasmania by a white man.
Such debate would be possible across multiple monuments and manmade structures in Tasmania that were erected during different times in history.
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre campaign coordinator Nala Mansell has suggested that the state government should lead discussions on whether such statues 'are still relevant in today's society' and require removal.
She said only the removal of these monuments should be considered.
George Town mayor Greg Kieser, whose region became involved in debate over the renaming of Batman Bridge, said rather than broadly removing all statues, it was better to contextualise and correct the record.
"You have a moral obligation to tell the full, correct history, not a white-washed, sanitized, Europhile version," he said.
He added that every age had its own different moral bias.
"We are concious that if you measure history's figureheads by today's moral standards, you are going to find the vast majority are going to fall short," Mr Kieser said.
"If you... start pulling down the statues and the people that have been reverered in the history of any nation, it is a slippery slide," he said.
"Rather, we should tell the truth. Correct the record, and offer a counterpoint and juxtaposed installation that tells the other side, the balanced perspective of history."
He said this was what the council attempted when it put forward a proposal to erect an Aboriginal momument that told the facts of persecution and genocide of the Litarimirina people.
"Noone officially declind [the monument], it got lost in the political narrative of whether the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre would support it, and whether it would be a state-wide initiative, and nothing happened."
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