Rob Anders is the Aboriginal Education and Strategy Officer and Senior Technical Officer in Surveying and Spatial Sciences (half-time appointments) in the Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences at UTAS. Rob can trace his Aboriginal heritage to Woretermoteteyenner, daughter of Mannalargenna from the northeast Coastal Plains nation (Tasmania). He is currently a director of a small Aboriginal corporation, and a member of the Aboriginal Heritage Council under the Tasmania’s Aboriginal Heritage Act 1975. Rob is passionate about working at the community level, practicing culture, and the management and protection of Aboriginal heritage sites. He has used his skills in field surveying and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the application of spatial mapping techniques to research Tasmania’s Aboriginal history, of which he is author of maps appearing in several books and other works.
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