Aboriginal cemetery 'on country' created after land claim removed

Updated March 30 2017 - 3:03pm, first published 2:58pm

Barry Cooley was born in La Perouse, and grew up swimming and playing at Bumbora Point next to where he now works as an adult. When he dies, he will be able to be buried in a dedicated Indigenous cemetery "on country" within a few metres from where he fishes for bream and flathead.

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