Controversial statue of former Tasmanian premier who stole an Indigenous skull could be removed

Hobart City Council has been told to vote to remove the statue of a former Tasmanian premier who mutilated the corpse of an Aboriginal man in 1869.

The statue of a Tasmanian premier could be removed from Hobart after a city council committee recommended it go due to the man's history of mutilating Aboriginals.

The statue would be replaced with artwork from local Aboriginal creatives commenting on Crowther's dark history. "Tasmanian Aboriginal people have expressed their pain about the continued presence of the Crowther statue in Franklin Square," the report said.

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