The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says it is 'horrified' after the coroner's office dropped off human remains in brown paper bags without warning to its reception on Friday.
Aboriginal remains were returned to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in brown paper bags on Friday by police, without any prior communication, the centre says.
"A police officer has rocked up unannounced to the Tasmanian centre with paper bags informing us that: 'Here's the bones of your ancestors. I've been asked to drop them off to you,'" Ms Mansell said. It is the second coronial report on uncovered Tasmanian Aboriginal remains in recent weeks, with an investigation into human bones found at the Shank on the state's west coast released a fortnight ago.A left and right femur, along with a right radius bone was found by a fisherman north of Low Rocky Point in 2016.
"The Coroner's Act of 1995 is a law that says if the coroner suspects remain human remains may be Aboriginal, they need to contact the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre so that the Aboriginal community can have some involvement in the process … and ensure that the human remains are dealt with in a respectful manner," she said.
Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff said the treatment of the remains was as "outrage" and showed the "ongoing racism and colonisation that occurs in Tasmania".
Nala Mansell Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation Coroner
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