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SYDNEY: The Australian city of Hobart voted late Monday to remove a 132-year-old statue commemorating a politician who stole the skull of an Aboriginal man from a local morgue.Hobart’s Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds said it was “part of the process of truthtelling” about the history of Tasmania, a state where the Aboriginal population was decimated by disease and brutality after white settlement.The city council voted 7-4 in favour of removing the statue of William Crowther, who was the leader of Tasmania in the late 1870s.A surgeon by trade, Crowther in 1869 mutilated the body of a deceased Aboriginal man, William “King Billy” Lanne, removing his skull and replacing it with that of another person

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