Vial episode over after precious blood comes home to Elcho Island

On Tuesday, amid dancing and speeches and the soaring voices of the community choir, something precious taken from the remote Northern Territory Galiwin’ku Indigenous community will finally return home.Ross Mandi Wunungmurra, chair of the Yalu Marnggithinyaraw Indigenous Corporation, in front of two baskets containing the blood.For the past 50 years, that blood had been subject to repeated scientific experiments without the original donors ever knowing of its existence.

“It would be wrong to call it wrong,” says Professor Simon Easteal, the centre’s director. “When people did it, they did not know what they were doing might be unacceptable now.” The ANU faces similar issues. In some cases, scientists took cells from the blood and grew them in a dish. Those frozen cells are still held by the ANU; no one is quite sure what to do with them.

their blood is no more precious than anyone else's

You should get some blood from Bruce Pascoe and do a DNA test.

Their blood was subjected to 'repeated scientific experiments'. That sounds like torture to me. Surely this is Australia's Tuskegee moment. Demand a Royal Commission and PM's apology.

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