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...27 Apr 2021 | Catastrophes, Holes in history, Incomplete records, Systemic failure, Under resourced
Historians fear untold Australian stories could be lost without a substantial funding increase for the National Archives to prevent the disintegration of records dating back to the mid-19th century. … Michelle Arrow, co-editor of History Australia and a former...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...18 Feb 2021 | Alteration of Records, Holes in history, Incomplete records, Non-compliance, Systemic failure
After insisting his administration had done nothing wrong last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, on Monday, did not directly apologize for a lack of transparency surrounding the record-keeping of COVID deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic. Instead, he admitted that...3 Feb 2021 | Holes in history, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has written to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission over the destruction of recordings of witness testimony. … A total of 550 people provided personal accounts to the confidential committee as part of a five-year...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. …...
30 Apr 2014 | Holes in history, Inadequate Systems, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records, Systemic failure
When Ortiz went to pick up a copy of his high school transcript, he couldn’t believe what he was told. “There was no record of transcripts,” explained Ortiz. “No records of anything. No records of grades, graduation, nothing.” It was like he never attended Forest...
