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Ancient Aboriginal rock art leaves museums to return home to Tasmania's far north-west

Two ancient pieces of Aboriginal rock art are making their way back to Tasmania's north-west after a long campaign to have them returned to the rugged coastline from where they were stolen in the 1960s.

After more than five decades, three institutional apologies and painstaking preservation work, the petroglyphs are being loaded on trucks, headed hundreds of kilometres away to their home in a remote corner of the state.

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