Shane Ingrey

Shane is a Dharawal and Dhungutti man from the La Perouse Aboriginal community and has an unbroken connection to Coastal Sydney through his ancestors, John Sims and Lucy Lyons. Shane holds a doctorate from the University of New South Wales for his research in microbiology and molecular biology of bacteria and fungi that live within medicinal plants of Gamay (Botany Bay). He has worked as a Cultural Heritage Officer for the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, protecting and managing cultural heritage sites of Coastal Sydney.
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The Retrieval of the Gweagal Spears and the La Perouse Community

When the British colonised countries, they would take items from Indigenous peoples, including but not limited to cultural items and artefacts, which often end up in museums overseas. David Johnson writes, First Nations peoples here in so-called Australia have been working to have these objects returned. At the same time, Dr Shane Ingrey shares that the practice of making these objects continues today, because the knowledge to do so remains strong.

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