How a tribal chief got buried in Liverpool

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Cressida Fforde has become increasingly frustrated with the UK Home Office in the four years since she discovered that the skull of Yagan, a West Australian Aboriginal tribal leader, was buried in a public grave at Everton cemetery in Liverpool, England. Fforde, who made her discovery in 1993 while a doctoral student at Southampton University, explains that under Aboriginal religious law, spiritual peace can only be achieved by returning the dead to their birthplace and giving them the last rights. However the Home Office is refusing to allow the skull to be exhumed because it would disturb other human remains.

Laws, regulations and rules, Australian aborigines, Aboriginal Australians, Exhumation

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Get the picture?

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The digital archiving of pictures dating back to photography's earliest days is set to revolutionise teaching by giving students and academics easy access to imagery that can illustrate a concept far more effectively than reams of text. Digitisation projects that will give academics access to imagery are ongoing around the world. An example of such a scheme is the Newsfilm Online project, which aims to encode around 3,000 hours of imagery from the Reuters and ITN archives, dating back to the 1920s, plus 3,500 hours of British Pathe newsreel material.

Analysis, Storage, Photographs, Images, Photographic, Photograph collections, Educational aspects, Online database, Online databases

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Pacific overtures

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Paul Keating was prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996 and helped develop relations between Australia and Asia. He had a difference of opinion with Malaysia but links with Indonesia were more fruitful. Keating sees China as a key player in the region due to its size and the number of its inhabitants. Keating sees the educational system of Australia as important since only Japan has a comparable system in the region. Keating is working as a visiting professor for the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Australia, Political activity, International relations, Keating, P.J.

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