Question – Coronial Project Scope and Resourcing Update Required
The Hon Meg Webb MLC asked the following Question on Notice on Thursday the 10th of April 2025.
(once the government provides a formal response in the Legislative Council to Ms Webb’s Question on Notice, that response will be uploaded here – stay tuned!)
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Question on NoticeÂ
Thursday, 10 April 2025
I (Ms Webb) tomorrow to ask the Honourable Leader of the Government —
In relation to the Coronial Project currently underway into the autopsy specimens retained by the R. A. Radda Museum of Pathology at the University of Tasmania, and noting the independence of the Coroner’s Office as established under the Coroners Act 1995 to report, investigate and hold inquests into deaths, fire and explosions, can the government please:
- Clarify the scope of the Current Coronial Project inquiry including whether the Project is investigating the deaths of those individuals from whom the autopsy samples were contained in the Museum of Pathology collection, or the autopsies of those individuals, and any other matters regarding the circumstances surrounding the Museum of Pathology’s collection;
- Confirm whether there has been any request for additional resourcing, or any other form of assistance, from the Coroner’s Office to assist with matters associated with the Coronial Project including community consultation, and if so please detail the request and any government response provided;
- Clarify whether, on the conclusion of the Coronial Project, family members who wish to do so will be consulted on the eventual disposal or repatriation of their family member’s remains?; and
- Detail whether the government has received updates from the Coroner’s Office on the progress of the Coronial Project, including but not limited to, the expected completion date.
