NITV Radio's Ngaire Pakai speaks with Ray Ingrey Dharawal and Dunghutti person from the La Perouse Aboriginal community on the northern arm of Kamay. Ray was part of the delegation to have the artefacts returned, which has been a multi-decade and multi-generational effort.
Rey shares about the long process of building relationships with Trinity College Cambridge and the support from the Australian Government’s AIATSIS-led Return of Cultural Heritage Program, and the National Museum of Australia.
Rey talks about the bitter-sweet success of the repatriation of the Gweagal Spears, "For us there is that excitement, but also a bit of sadness cause the older ones particularly of the senior women who kicked off the repatriation campaign are no longer with us".
The Gweagal Spears is currently Exhibiting at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum in Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return . The exhibition closes on 29 June.
