The Tasmanian government has issued an apology for a decades-long practice in which body parts taken during autopsies were retained and displayed in a university pathology museum without the knowledge or consent of grieving families.
The apology was delivered in the Tasmanian parliament on Tuesday by health minister Bridget Archer as relatives of some of the deceased gathered in Hobart seeking accountability and answers over the scandal that stretched from 1966 to 1991.
