Indigenous remains returned to Australia

The UK is relinquishing the remains of 13 Aboriginal Australians which will be handed over in a ceremony today.
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A representative of the Ngarrindjeri community, which will welcome home ancestral remains. Image via ecotraveller

The ancestral remains will be returned to members of the Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatriation and to representatives of the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia and the Whadjuk community in Western Australia.

The remains have been held by a group of British provincial museums: the Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton, Brighton and Hove City Council, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham City Council and the University of Cambridge.

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