Nowhere Else but Home: A National Resting Place for Indigenous Australian Ancestral Remains

This article addresses the establishment of National Resting Place, a new Australian cultural institution designed to perform vital role in care Ancestral Remains. Exploring history why there are, and have been, many thousands Remains Australia that need be repatriated, reburied or cared for as community determines, this demonstrates physical harm caused Indigenous people through professional practices scientists, anatomists, collectors throughout main era collecting, highlighting how methods norms collecting led lack provenance other identifying information The identifies challenges repatriation context discusses emergence model, provide an Indigenous-centred response Australia.