A local councillor in one of Tasmania's largest Aboriginal communities has come under fire after calling for Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies to be abolished at council events.

Flinders Island councillor Garry Blenkhorn announced his intention to table a motion on Wednesday to remove the ceremonies from council proceedings, saying Australians did not want "separatist development" and that there was growing discontent surrounding the ceremonies.

"I believe the two protocols [the Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country] have served their purpose and it is now time to move on," Cr Blenkhorn said, the ABC reports.

"These protocols are not historical and have only existed for around 50 years."

Mr Blenkhorn's comments have lead to outrage, with Tasmanian and Victorian Aboriginal man Thomas Reilly labelling Mr Blenkhorn's suggestion "ridiculous".

"Councillor Garry Blenkhorn has put a motion forward for consideration that suggests Welcomes to Country and Acknowledgements be abolished on the grounds that they are in the same consideration as racial apartheid," Mr Reilly wrote on social media. "The notion is hard for me to even contemplate."

"Furthermore, as if his apartheid remark wasn't enough, Councillor Blenkhorn has claimed Welcomes to Country and Acknowledgements started in the 1970s, most notably by actor and TV personality Ernie Dingo.

"This is a fairytale. The Welcome to Country was a right of passage that has taken place for longer than Australia has existed."

Flinders Island, the largest of the Furneaux group has the second-highest proportion of Aboriginal people in Tasmania.

The Wybalenna Mission is located on the island, a location were Tasmanian Aboriginal people were exiled during colonial times, with many succumbing to disease and poor treatment.

Aaron Maynard, the chair of Cape Barron Island Aboriginal Association also criticised Mr Blenkhorn's calls to end Welcome to and Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies.

Cape Barren, the second largest in the Furneaux group, lies south of Flinders. It holds the first land officially handed back to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community in 2005.

"Words can't really explain how disgusting and just how disrespectful this is to everyone," Mr Maynard said.

"Our people on this land in Australia are the oldest living race in the world at 65,000 years old, and we're still not celebrating that to our full capacity."

Mr Blenkhorn's process in bringing forward the motion has also been questioned from within Council, with Mayor Rachel Summers saying Welcome to and Acknowledgements of Country are "essentially a very brief" part of council proceedings.

She said Mr Blenkhorn's suggestion would lead to division and "take us back 50 years, 100 years even".

"It's literally 30 seconds, 60 seconds, when we just acknowledge the contribution the Aboriginal community has made over their time as custodians of the land," Cr Summers said, via the ABC.

"Things like this which have real community impact should come to a [council] workshop in the first instance, and then we could have had that discussion.

"And if he was saying that he wanted to put this motion forward, then we could have maybe done some community engagement," Cr Summers said.

Flinders Island Council general manager Warren Groves said Mr Blenkhorn's motion "could well be seen as difficult to reconcile".

He said both the Flinders Island Aboriginal Association and Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association, and the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania were in staunch opposition to Mr Blenkhorn's proposal.

"All three CEOs are strongly opposed to any proposed withdrawal of the Welcome to or Acknowledgement of Country from council proceedings," Mr Groves said.

Tasmanian Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell said the idea was "disappointing" while speaking on ABC Local Radio at the weekend.

"There was no consultation whatsoever with the Aboriginal people on Flinders," Mr Mansell said.

"So, again, it's people who just have a very different view, and we need to tolerate that, but why they would try to destroy something that's very positive, and that people do want to participate in, is very hard to understand."

The motion is set to be debated on Wednesday.