The German Australian Repatriation Network (GARRN) is an initiative of the Return, Reconcile, Renew.

Return, Reconcile, Renew (RRR) commenced in 2014. Its overall aim is to raise awareness and understanding about repatriation and assist repatriation practitioners and researchers in their efforts to bring Old People home.  So far, RRR has undertaken two projects: Return, Reconcile, Renew: understanding the history, effects and opportunities of repatriation and building an evidence base for the future (2014-2018) and Restoring Dignity: networked knowledge for repatriation communities (2018-2020). These projects have been funded by the Australian Research Council and partner organisation contributions. Both have responded to questions identified by the Australian Community Partner Organisations: the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC), the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority (NRA), and Gur a Bardharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council).

RRR has an international team and benefits from expertise in First Nations’ organisations, universities, research institutions, government and museums.

GARRN aims to provide a forum for news and discussion of matters relating to the support of Australian and other Indigenous peoples seeking to repatriate those of their Old People who are still held by European museums and other scientific institutions. The primary  focus of GARRN is on German and Austrian collections of Indigenous Ancestral Human Remains, but the network also aims to facilitate the sharing of information about Ancestors in other European colonial era anthropology and comparative human anatomy  collections.

We welcome participation in GARRN by Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers engaged in provenance research or other repatriation-related tasks.