6 Jul 2021 | Chaotic Record Keeping, Ethics, Holes in history, Inadequate Systems, Willful Non-compliance
For as long as she can remember, Danita Bilozaze knew that the name on her birth certificate, “Danita Loth,” didn’t reflect her Indigenous identity. From the stories her mother recounted to her, she knew that Catholic missionaries had changed her...3 Jun 2021 | Holes in history, Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Systemic failure, Willful Non-compliance
The remains of 215 children were found last month buried in unmarked graves at a former residential school, one of more than 150 institutions in a defunct system that for well over a century forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families to assimilate them...12 Apr 2021 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Chaotic Record Keeping, Ethics, Holes in history, Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Willful Non-compliance
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia’s largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. … The separation of Aboriginal families during the operation of the...17 Jan 2021 | Alteration of Records, Catastrophes, Chaotic Record Keeping, Ethics, Holes in history, Willful Non-compliance
There’s growing concern among historians and political analysts that missing documents will leave a hole in the record of President Donald Trump’s term, one of America’s most tumultuous presidencies. Trump has been cavalier about the law requiring that records be...21 Aug 2017 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Ethics, Holes in history, Inaccurate records, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency, Systemic failure
Eileen Cummings was raised by missionaries on remote Croker Island, off the Top End’s north coast, for decades unaware that her family was living just across the water. “Years later we found that if I went across the bay (Van Diemen Gulf)… I...10 Jun 2016 | Ethics, Holes in history, Lack of transparency
Records from a boys’ home that is set to be the focus of a case study at a royal commission into child sexual abuse are being held at the University of Newcastle, it has emerged, after it was believed the records had been destroyed or had gone missing. …...
