Bill seeks end to Sydney’s ‘cemetery wars’

A years-long battle over cemeteries on crown land could be coming to a close.

A new bill is seeking to end the years-long “cemetery wars” that have pitted the Catholic Church against state authorities in Australia.

Mary, Mother Of Mercy Crematorium Chapel at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia. J Bar via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The dispute flared in 2021, when the New South Wales government sought to bring Sydney’s burial grou…