Third Annual Treaty Match

The College held its third Treaty Day Football Match on Friday 4 August, with staff and students joining members of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community to recognise the significance of an event 192 years ago.

The date coincides with that day in 1831 when the representative of the Colonial government, George Augustus Robinson, shook hands with the Tasmanian Aboriginal  resistance leader Mannalargenna. The coerced agreement saw many of the surviving aboriginal people taken to Wybalenna on Flinders Island with the unkept promise of freedom, clothing, food and protection. 

To recognise this significant moment, the Treaty Day Match aims to invite discussion around the language of Voice, Treaty and Truth, defining and possibly redefining , how we view, understand and ultimately act in response to the Land and its First Peoples.