Indigenous remains return from Germany

The government and indigenous communities have worked with a German university hospital to repatriate 14 sets of ancestral remains.

Two indigenous communities will receive ancestral remains returned from Germany.

Goemulgal of Lag Mabuyag in the Torres Strait and the Wajarri Yamatji peoples of Western Australia will get 14 ancestral remains returned from the Charite University Hospital in Berlin.

The Charite repatriated other indigenous remains in 2013.

Its decision influenced other German museums to return remains to indigenous communities, Arts Minister George Brandis said on Tuesday.