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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam Photography Dean Sewell

Return to Uluru: ending the unfinished business that began with a 1934 police shooting

Abraham Poulson carries Yukun's remains to the ceremony, part of a process of healing and truth-telling.
Abraham Poulson carries Yukun's remains to the ceremony, part of a process of healing and truth-telling. Photograph: Dean Sewell/The Guardian

On the day Yukun was returned to Uluru, his descendants leapt into the deep, narrow grave to help ease him to rest as their elders looked on, weeping.

The ceremony, at the base of the rock on an unusually cold and rainy morning, helped ease the pain of almost 90 years of unfinished business that began with a Northern Territory police shooting in 1934.

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