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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. 


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