Burial and Cremation Acts around Australia allow for grave sites, where the lease has expired, to be reused. A process called lift and deepen happens where the person’s remains are dug up and put into an ossuary, buried deeper in the grave and then another burial is placed on top. In South Australia we’re working to have this Act changed.
Flinders University Archaeology Students Recording Headstone Data
Shot And Blown Up In WWI Now Aussie Vet Could Be Dug Up And His Grave Reused The Advertiser 6 Mar 2015