Hi Garry, Yes there is legislation in place regarding desecration but it pertains to members of the public not the cemeteries board who controls the land - Government land, Government agency so fighting the boards rulings is the much same as taking on the government (State). Many people have banged their heads on this brick wall to no avail in the past & no doubt will try again in the future. Media, members of parliament etc, it has all been tried. Karrakatta is certainly not the only cemetery with this practice in place & compared to other policies not the worst as they are not digging anyone up at least. They are though destroying the monumental work that many families have gone into hock to provide as a tribute to their loved ones & running a bulldozer over someone's grave must certainly be classed as the worst form of desecration anyone could think of. In some cases this has happened where the last burial in the grave may have only been a year or so before such as cases where one person was buried say in 1975 & the grant was taken out & then a family member buried there in 1999, grant expires 2000 & bulldozers move in not long after. Many members of the public are unaware of cemetery policies etc & it is usually the last thing they are thinking of at the time of a death in the family but just following last wishes of the deceased who wanted to be buried in the family grave. Although funeral directors who do the organizing certainly should (in my opinion) inform the family of cemetery policy they do not & there is no requirement for them to do so. One day hopefully the people will have the success you have had in Victoria in overturning public cemetery policy. Best wishes, Sharon >REST IN PEACE, ( unless you're buried in Karrakatta). >I don't understand about these things in WA but it sounds awfully wrong >to me. >WA hasn't got a law against desecration ? >Surely the trust or whatever have over-reached themselves. >This is really, really bad if it is allowed to happen. >If there is not a law against it there should be. >We've been through this crap in Victoria where the pain and the >heartbreak to relatives on the end-of-tenure just wasn't worth >the gains. >I'd be looking closer at the legislation in WA and comparing them >against the trust regulations. >Legislation over-rules regulations. >What does it take to declare the cemetery a heritage site and stop this >insanity ? >I'm not a legal person. Is there any one that knows about these things >on-line ? >It just sounds horribly wrong to me.