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Sep 2021
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The plan to bury Mungo Man and Mungo Lad...

The Guardian
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Their discovery proved millennia of continuous Indigenous existence but now time is running out for those who want to stop them being buried again. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends Paul Daley’s piece that showcases the tension between three different groups as they tackle with difficult questions 
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