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Lismore City Council has reopened the Office at the Lismore Memorial Gardens on Skyline Road in Goonellabah.

Called the Lismore Memorial Gardens, Crematorium and Cemeteries Office it provides a respectful space to discuss burials at the Lismore Memorial Gardens and rural cemeteries, cremations, memorial services and memorisation and plaques.

John Hewson, writing in the Saturday Paper about church, state, the separation of powers and what that might have to with cemeteries. 

"Rumours are rife in the sector about Perrottet’s activism on the curious issue of cemetery management, most conspicuously trotting Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher to meetings with Gladys Berejiklian, when she was premier."

 

A review into the cemetery and crematoria sector has identified that Greater Sydney is running out of burial space. 

The review recommended that cemeteries be assessed as State Significant Development (SSD).

The department is proposing changes that would see large-scale new and expanded cemeteries assessed as SSD. Larger scale cemeteries have the potential to make a substantial contribution to resolving the shortage of burial space in Greater Sydney.

These changes would mean larger cemetery development proposals would be recognised in the same way as other key social infrastructure such as hospitals and schools, through the SSD assessment pathway.

CCANSW member  Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries NSW has a vacancy for a Cemetery Service Operator.

Cemetery/Crematorium Assistant (AS117 AS118)

This is an opportunity for committed and motivated individuals who take pride in their work to join the Parks and Strategic Operations Team in the role of a Cemetery/Crematorium Assistant located at Wagga’s Lawn Cemetery and Crematorium.

Cemeteries & Crematoria NSW has provided its interpretation of the application of current Public Health (COVID-19 General) Order 2021 in regard to cemeteries & crematoria in New South Wales.  The document is embedded  below or you can access it here at its source.

In 2019-2020, the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment commenced a statutory review of the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013.

The Guardian reports (11th Oct 2021) that the  plan to put burial grounds under the control of a single body has engulfed religious groups and pitted NSW government ministers against each other.

Here's a few tweets from the last couple of weeks week, including a photo of Sheringa Cemetery (South Australia) taken by @gardensofsilent,  questions asking if NSW Catholic cemeteries have found a friend in the state's new premier, Irish funeral directors upset about a council demanding cemetery fees up front, and more....