An Aboriginal lawmaker was removed from an event at Australia’s Parliament on Monday after heckling King Charles III, an incident that refocused attention on the crown’s historical mistreatment of the country’s first peoples ahead of the monarch’s meeting with Indigenous community members.
Before Australia’s East Coast burnished its reputation as a haven of sun, sand and sea, it was the temperate climate of Tasmania, the country’s largest island, that lured visitors from across the British Empire. Sometimes called the “sanitarium of the south,” it was noted for its salubrious climes, which were considered an antidote to havoc wrought on delicate constitutions by tours in the equatorial colonies. Some two centuries later, the heart-shaped landmass 150 miles off the mainland’s southeast coast is still seen as a place of invigorating isolation.