It's been my experience that just when you think you've heard about the most terrible thing you'll ever hear, something worse comes along within a week.
What happens to hospital waste in Australia? Is it incinerated or buried? It's considered hazardous waste here. Don't really know what happens to it after it's bagged and marked 'hazardous' though. Digging through tons of it searching for a preemie's body would be a horrible job, almost unthinkable. Still, I'm a little surprised the authorities aren't willing to do it (therefore, the Aussies must incinerate it???). It is a human being, after all and she deserves more respect than being thrown out with the garbage.
Perhaps digging through the hazardous waste would be satisfactory punishment for the people who did it? Just fit them up in hazmat scuba gear, and off they go to the pools of infectious goop.
Incinerated - because, yes, otherwise people would be looking. It wouldn't be a pleasant job but similar things have been done before. Near where I live, it was necessary a couple of years ago to search through a garbage tip for an infants body after her father murdered the child and her mother - I'm a volunteer firefighter and we all volunteered. So did volunteers of the State Emergency Service, and members of a nearby golf club. People would do this now if there was anywhere to look.