Earlier this month, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) delivered its final report, including 94 ‘calls to action’. Two of these refer to Aboriginal peoples’ ‘inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why, with regard to human rights violations committed against them in the residential schools’. What is this right to know the truth?
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Our readers might be interested in a book by Tanya Evans – Fractured Families: life on the margins in colonial New South Wales (2015, UNSW Press). Launched last week at the State Library of New South Wales, the book draws on the archives of The Benevolent Society (founded in 1813) to tell the stories of the ‘ordinary as well as the extraordinary’ people who lived and worked in colonial Sydney.
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A project based at Macquarie University is seeking former residents willing to share their recollections of life at Weroona Home.
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Welcome to the Find & Connect web resource blog! We plan to use this space to connect with users of the Find & Connect website in place of our previous newsletters and News site.
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In the past, you might have received our monthly Find & Connect web resource newsletters – we distributed these monthly during the first phase of our project.
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