Portrait of Anthony Martin Fernando by Raj Nagi
Return, Reconcile, Renew Project: further information
- Website: www.returnreconcilerenew.info
- Cressida Fforde, Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler, The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew, Routledge, London, 2020.
Useful contacts
National
Director
Indigenous Repatriation
Collections and Cultural Heritage
Department of Communications and the Arts
GPO Box 2154
Canberra ACT 2601
Email: repatriation@arts.gov.au
Phone: 1800 006 992
https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/cultural-heritage/indigenous-repatriation
Repatriation Program Manager
National Museum of Australia
GPO Box 1901
Canberra ACT 2601
Email: Curator@nma.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 6208 5019
https://www.nma.gov.au/about/repatriation
Australian Capital Territory
Environment and Planning Directorate
GPO Box 158
Canberra City ACT 2601
Email: environment@act.gov.au
Phone: +61 02 6207 1923
New South Wales
Repatriation & Conservation Programs
Heritage Division
Office of Environment and Heritage
NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet
PO Box 1967
Hurstville BC NSW 1481
Email: info@environment.nsw.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 9995 5000
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/conservation/Repatriation.htm
Repatriation Coordinator
Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2010
Email: sand@austmus.gov.au
Phone: +61 2 9320 6000
http://australianmuseum.net.au/document/repatriation-policy
Repatriation Coordinator
NSW Aboriginal Land Council
PO Box 1125
Parramatta NSW 2124
Email: http://www.alc.org.au/contact-us.aspx
Phone: +61 2 9689 4444
http://www.alc.org.au/home.aspx
Queensland
Manager, Repatriation and Community Engagement
Queensland Museum
PO Box 3300
South Brisbane BC QLD 4101
Phone: +61 7 3840 7555
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Behind+the+Scenes/Repatriation
Western Australia
Director
Department of Aboriginal Affairs
Ancestral Remains Repatriation Program
PO Box 3153
East Perth WA 6892
Email: info2@daa.wa.gov.au
Phone: 1300 651 077
http://www.daa.wa.gov.au/
Repatriation Manager
Western Australian Museum
Locked Bag 49
Welshpool DC WA 6986
Email: reception@museum.wa.gov.au
Phone: 1300 134 081
http://museum.wa.gov.au/
Northern Territory
Repatriation Manager
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery
GPO Box 4646
Darwin NT 0801
Email: info@magnt.net.au
Phone: +61 8 8999 8264
http://www.magnt.net.au/
Director
Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority
GPO Box 1890
Darwin NT 0801
Email: enquiries.aapa@nt.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8999 5511
http://www.aapant.org.au/
Director
Northern Land Council
GPO Box 1222
Darwin NT 0801
Email: general.mail@nlc.org.au
Phone: +61 8 8920 5100
http://www.nlc.org.au/
Director
Central Land Council
PO Box 3321
Alice Springs NT 0871
Email: media@clc.org.au
Phone: +61 8 8951 6211
http://www.clc.org.au/
Director
Strehlow Research Centre
PO Box 831
Alice Springs NT 0871
Email: strehlow@nt.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8951 1111
www.strehlow.nt.gov.au
Victoria
Director
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria
GPO Box 2392
Melbourne VIC 3001
Email: Aboriginalaffairs@dpc.vic.gov.au
Phone: 1800 762 003
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-affairs-overview
Senior Project Officer
Repatriation and Community Support
Museum Victoria
PO Box 666
Melbourne VIC 3001
Email: jthomas@museum.vic.gov.au
Phone: +61 3 8341 7363
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections-research/humanities/repatriation-of-ancestral-remains/
Tasmania
Repatriation Manager
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
GPO Box 1164
Hobart TAS 7001
Email: tmagmail@tmag.tas.gov.au
Phone: +61 3 6165 7001
http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/home
Director
Aboriginal Heritage Tasmania
GPO Box 44
Hobart TAS 7001
Email: aboriginal@heritage.tas.gov.au
Phone: +61 3 6165 3152
http://www.aboriginalheritage.tas.gov.au/
South Australia
Aboriginal Heritage and Repatriation Manager
South Australian Museum
North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Email: anna.russo@samuseum.sa.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8207 7500
https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/learn/aboriginal-heritage-and-repatriation
Director
Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division
GPO Box 2343
Adelaide SA 5001
Email: dpcwebmaster@dpc.sa.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8226 3500
http://dpc.sa.gov.au/aboriginal-affairs-and-reconciliation-division
Federal, state and territory legislation
Commonwealth
- Australian Government Policy on Indigenous Repatriation
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
State
New South Wales
Queensland
Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
Victoria
Tasmania
South Australia
Western Australia
- Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (under review)
Northern Territory
Archival resources
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
National Archives of Australia
New South Wales State Records Office
Northern Territory Archives Service
Public Records Office Victoria
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of South Australia
State Library of Western Australia
State Records of South Australia
State Records Office of Western Australia
Museum policies
Museum Victoria, Repatriation of Ancestral Remains: Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Policy, 2019
Human anatomy guides
Much information on human skeletal structure is available on the internet. This is much cheaper than buying textbooks. Some online references include:
http://www.innerbody.com/anatomy/skeletal-male
http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html
Packing Ancestral Remains
Myra Giese (ed.), Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2013.
York Osteology, 2019: How to Pack a Skeleton
Transport
Importing Ancestral Remains
Responsibility now rests with Department of Health in consultation with the Department of Agriculture.
Supporting legislation: Biosecurity Act 2015, No. 61, 2015, which took effect from 16 June 2016
DNA testing
Australian Law Reform Commission 36: Kinship and Identity: Genetic Testing and Aboriginality
Information for communities scientific testing on Indigenous ancestral remains
Monash University Faculty of Science
Further reading
Advisory Committee for National Resting Place, National Resting Place: 2014 Consultation Report
Australian Government statement (Accessed 12 August 2019)
German Museums Association/Deutscher Museumsbund, Recommendations for the Care of Human Remains in Museums and Collections, April 2013 (PDF) (Accessed 13 August 2019)
Darren Goodsir, ‘Museum thief: “I just collected ’em”’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2003 (Accessed 12 August 2019)
International Council of Museums, ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums, 2013 (Accessed 4 November 2019)
Honor Keeler, A Guide to International Repatriation: Starting an Initiative in Your Community, Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), 2015 (PDF) (Accessed 13 August 2019)
Emma Kowal, L Rouhani and Ian Anderson, Genetic Research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities: Continuing the Conversation, Lowitja Institute, University of Melbourne, 2011 (Accessed 4 November 2019)
Emma Kowal, ‘Genetic research in Indigenous health: significant progress, substantial challenges’, Medical Journal of Australia, 2012, 197 (1): 19–20 (Accessed 4 November 2019)
Derek John Mulvaney, ‘Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (1910–1975)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (published first in hardcopy 2000) (Accessed 13 August 2019)
Museums Australia, Continuing Cultures, Ongoing Responsibilities: Principles and Guidelines for Australian Museums Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage, 2005 (PDF) (Accessed 4 November 2019)
Graeme Neate, Aboriginal Land Rights Law in the Northern Territory, vol. 1, chp 7, Chippendale, NSW, Alternative Publishing Cooperative, 1989.
Repatriation (Wikipedia)
Repatriation and reburial of human remains (Wikipedia)
The Report of the Working Group on Human Remains (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and Natural History Museum London)
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples