From: "Trudy Bray" <ozbrays-AT-mail.zip.com.au> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 10:44:47 +1000 Subject: ABC News: Govt allows traditional burial Govt allows traditional burial Friday 21 May, 1999 (5:30am AEST) The Tasmanian Government has amended regulations under the Cremation Act to allow one Aboriginal family to carry out a traditional burial. Four-year-old Jeffrey Michael Steven Wells was cremated by his family on Big Dog Island, off Tasmania's north-east coast, last Saturday as a result of the changes. Michael Mansell, the legal manager of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, says the community never understood why traditional burial practices were outlawed. "The fact the state government are now starting to realise there's no reason why Aborigines can't do this sort of thing means there's a huge sigh of relief going through Aboriginal families who don't want to put their dead in existing cemetaries, but want to go back to traditional ways and rest the spirit of the bodies of people in a more appropriate fashion," he said. ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." --- from list postcolonial-info-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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