Heath Ledger’s family arrived in Australia on Tuesday to attend the private funeral that will take place in the actor’s hometown of Perth.

According to Australian media reports, Heath’s parents, sister and various family members arrived at Perth's domestic airport after an overnight flight from Los Angeles via Brisbane.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on its website that, although funeral arrangements are being kept secret, it is believed that the actor, whose premature death on Jan. 22 shocked fans around the world, will be buried in the family plot, near his grandparents, at Perth's Karrakatta Cemetery, sometime this week.

Heath Ledger’s family was in the United States over the past week, attending private memorial services after going to America to collect his body. The young actor was found dead in his New York City apartment last month, and an autopsy did not immediately reveal the cause of death.

Toxicology test results are bound to emerge this week, revealing whether the prescription drugs found in the apartment had any part in his premature death.

The actor was only 28. Former fiancée Michelle Williams, the mother of his two-year-old daughter Matilda, spoke only days after the tragic event, saying her heart was broken and requesting privacy for those in mourning.

Ledger and Williams began their romantic relationship while filming Ang Lee’s Academy Award-nominated drama “Brokeback Mountain.” Both actors as well as co-star Jake Gyllenhaal were nominated.

The Hollywood community allied in anger last week after a dubious “drug video” with Ledger was publicized by two U. S. entertainment TV shows. Plans of broadcasting it were nixed, with the involved shows making a point of explaining that the late actor was never shown consuming drugs in the footage.

The Associated Press notes that Heath’s fellow natives of Perth are mourning his death and condemning the recent rumors of drug use.

“If a person dies, let him go in peace. All this rubbish they bring up about drugs and everything else, I think it's a lot of rubbish,” Margaret Byrne, a 58-year-old catering supervisor at Royal Perth Hospital, told the wire agency.