Editing Body snatching (section)

===Australia===
In Tasmania, the bodies of [[William Lanne]] (1835–1869) and [[Truganini]] (1812–1876), considered at the time to be the last [[Aboriginal Tasmanians]] (Palawa), were both exhumed from their graves. Lanne's head, hands and feet were removed illegally by surgeon [[William Crowther (Australian politician)|William Crowther]] and members of the [[Royal Society of Tasmania]] before he was buried, and the rest of his body was stolen after his burial.<ref name="Lawson2014">{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Tom|title=The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJykAgAAQBAJ|access-date=6 October 2015|date=2014|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=9781780766263|pages=166–168}}</ref> Truganini, who outlived Lanne by several years, had wished to avoid his fate and expressly asked to be cremated, but was buried anyway. The Royal Society of Tasmania exhumed her body and put it on display.<ref>Antje Kühnast: 'In the interest of science and the colony'. Truganini und die Legende von den aussterbenden Rassen. In: Entfremdete Körper. Rassismus als Leichenschändung [Alienated Bodies. Racism and the desecration of corpses]. Ed by W. D. Hund. Bielefeld: Transcript 2009, pp. 205–250.</ref> 100 years after Truganini's death, aboriginal descendants finally won the rights to their bodies following many years of petitioning the government, and their remains were cremated and spread in the ocean.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Urry |first=James |date=1989 |title=Headhunters and Body-Snatchers |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3032960 |journal=Anthropology Today |volume=5 |issue=5 |pages=11–13 |doi=10.2307/3032960 |jstor=3032960 |issn=0268-540X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

These two instances were not isolated. With the aboriginal Tasmanians being wiped out, other native Australians still faced the same threat of body snatching due to continued intrigue from the colonial British presence. In 1910, 12 aboriginal bodies were stolen from their burial places along the coast, where the natives were forced to settle after being driven away from their ancestral land.<ref name=":4" /> The leader of this heist was W.E.L.H. Crowther, an 18-year-old medical student simply seeking the favor of one of his professors.<ref name=":4" /> After obtaining the bodies, Crowther and his associates took them back to Melbourne to undergo further examination.<ref name=":4" />

==== Project Sunshine ====
[[Project SUNSHINE|Project Sunshine]] was launched during the height of the Cold War as a series of multinational studies concerning the danger posed to humans by radioactive isotopes as a result of nuclear fallout. The Australian government became involved in the program during the mid-1950s, and began collecting body parts from citizens during autopsies, including many children, most often without their next of kin consenting or even being made aware.<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Roff |first=Sue Rabbitt  |date=2002 |title=Project Sunshine and the Slippery Slope: The Ethics of Tissue Sampling for Strontium-90 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45352078 |journal=Medicine, Conflict and Survival |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=299–310 |doi=10.1080/13623690208409637 |jstor=45352078 |pmid=12201087 |s2cid=45691025 |issn=1362-3699|url-access=subscription }}</ref> By the time the program ended in the early 1980s, the Australian government had stolen thousands upon thousands of body parts from deceased Australians to be used for research in [[Project SUNSHINE|Project Sunshine]].<ref name=":7" />