EXHUMATION – VICTORIA

Fromelles exhumation can guide market plan over city’s first cemetery

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Original article by Ian Royall
Herald Sun – Page: Online : 9-May-18

Pollster and Melbourne lord mayoral candidate Gary Morgan has proposed the construction of an underground car park at the Queen Victoria Market. This would entail exhuming and relocating several hundred of the 6,000-plus bodies that are interred at the site. Morgan stresses that exhumation would occur only where "absolutely necessary", and he says the procedures used for exhuming and DNA-testing bodies from the battlefields of Fromelles could be used at the Queen Victoria Market site.

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CITY OF MELBOURNE, QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET, ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Candidate’s plan to exhume 6000 market bodies

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Original article by Clay Lucas
The Age – Page: 11 : 27-Apr-18

Melbourne lord mayoral candidate Gary Morgan has pledged to exhume upwards of 6,000 skeletons buried under the Queen Victoria Market carpark if he wins the upcoming election. Morgan said the skeletons would be DNA tested, and their descendants would be allowed to decide where they should be buried. Morgan, who was one of six candidates taking part in a forum at the Melbourne Press Club, said exhuming the skeletons would enable an above-ground car park to be moved underground instead, with a park to be put on the surface. Other campaign promises aired at the forum included a proposal by Labor candidate Jennifer Yang to ban alcohol at the Town Hall.

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MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL, MELBOURNE PRESS CLUB, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, PROPERTY COUNCIL OF VICTORIA