For a while, her name and picture were everywhere. In Nova Scotia, literally, on papers covering the province. Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old criminology student disappeared on 13 February. She was writing her Masters thesis on the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. Saunders, originally from Labrador and studying at Saint Mary’s University…
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Just as we thought things with the newly appointed Abbott government couldn’t get any worse. News has broke that the government’s initiative to bring ‘to bring indigenous policy under the PM’s control,’ by employing ‘260 Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander bureaucrats’ into the Department of the Prime Minster and Cabinet, is going to be paying…
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The 2014 Close the Gap report, released this week has highlighted a number of disturbing statistics regarding the disadvantage of Australia’s Indigenous population and the necessity for more Indigenous community led initiatives. The Close the Gap initiative was implemented six years ago to tackle the issues of Aboriginal disadvantage by setting a number of health,…
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