00:00Albie's daughter is buried at this cemetery in southern Tasmania.
00:07She was just two years old when she died at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
00:12Forty years after her death, Albie, who doesn't want to use his real name,
00:17has been hit by another wave of grief,
00:20finding out parts of his daughter's body may have been kept by a pathology museum
00:25without the family's knowledge or consent.
00:29I came down here through the week and I apologise to my daughter.
00:39You know, for what's happened.
00:42In 2016, the R.A. Rodder Museum of Pathology at the University of Tasmania
00:48told the coroner's office it may have in its collection
00:51specimens possibly retained from coronial autopsies without family consent.
00:57The coroner's office made the situation public last year as it worked to contact relatives.
01:04Initially, the coroner's office said there were 147 potential cases from between 1953 and 1985.
01:12Some next of kin were identified, but a list of 126 names was published in Tasmanian newspapers in January in a bid for further information.
01:24We need to have questions answered about how this happened, who was responsible and who should have had oversight over these circumstances.
01:33We need to be really honest about whether any laws were broken or standards breached in this.
01:38So there's been, I think, a really big change, but it's been probably relatively recent and I suspect we're not done with finding out things that have happened in the recent past that we nowadays would be quite concerned about.
01:51Albie is yet to find out more about his daughter's case, but has been offered a phone call from the coroner's office.
01:58I've put it off. It's too distressing.
02:02The coroner's office says it continues to manage inquiries as the investigation continues.
02:09It says support has been arranged for family members who've come forward and that coroners and the office work hard to ensure they're as trauma informed as possible.
02:20The coroner's office says it
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