Threat to gravesites can be thwarted by laws protecting significant sites

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Ron Bawden from the Payneham and Dudley Park Cemetery Trust at the grave site of SArsquos first female police officer Kate Cocks Picture Calum Robertson

THE State Government has urged families to nominate the graves of war-veteran relatives for heritage listing to protect the sites from reuse

Responding to concerns from families of war veterans who donrsquot want their loved ones disturbed a spokeswoman for Deputy Premier John Rau saidgraves would be protected against the reuse policy if they were heritage listed

ldquoGrave sites of local heritage significance can also be identified in local heritage surveys by individual local councils and under the provisions of theDevelopment Act 1993 be included in a list of local heritage places in their respective Development Plansrdquo she said

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Some war graves and the graves of veterans who do not have their service identified on headstones are being reused when families canrsquot be found ordo not extend lease payments

Under South Australian rules families must be identified and pay thousands of dollars for renewal fees when current lease arrangements expireotherwise remains can be buried deeper and strangers laid on top of the loved one

An interim agreement organised by Mr Rau saves graves not protected by the Federal Government at Centennial Park but this runs out in 2016

RSL deputy president Steve Larkins said the service record of any person could now be checked by cemeteries at the RSLrsquos ldquovirtual war memorialrdquo

SArsquos first female police officer Kate Cocks pictured in1908

ldquoThe virtual war memorial means people can quickly determine if someone is an ex-servicemanrdquo he said

ldquoThere is no formal obligation (that cemeteries check war records before site are reused) but it would be nice to think that they might and we are makingthat easier to dordquo

The Advertiser revealed yesterday that lobby group Saving the Graves South Australia has begun to organise a list of war veterans whose grave leaseshave expired and would not be renewed by family members

Saving the Graves SA organiser Kirrily Burton said it had been flooded with inquiries after yesterdayrsquos article

ldquoThis is not a cemetery issue The problem is the system which requires families firstly to be found and then to pay when they canrsquot afford itrsquorsquo she said

SA Heritage Council Judith Carr chair said the nomination of a grave would have to meet strict criteria if put to the council for state heritage listing

Flinders University lecturer Alice Gorman said most people would believe it was better to keep historic grave sites than destroy them for administrative orfinancial reasons

ldquoThere is often a disjunction between the reasonable expectation that there needs to be someone from the family to look after the grave and the fact thatthese people are of significance locally in the state or nationallyrdquo she said

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