Category: Indigenous Children

Aboriginal Child Deaths Spark Call for Royal Commission

An Aboriginal leader has called for a royal commission into mounting Indigenous child deaths, voicing concern it could bring about another stolen generation. The number of Indigenous children dying who are known to Victoria’s child protection services had risen alarmingly in recent years, Aboriginal Justice Caucus co-chair Chris Harrison said. The Wotjobaluk man said more…


Was Peter Bryce, the One Dead White Man Who Bucked the Demonization Trend, a Saint or a Sinner?

Commentary Many of Canada’s important historical figures have seen their statutes toppled and their names erased from buildings and maps in recent years in an outburst of historical cleansing. Among the victims: Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson, Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, and Samuel de Champlain, all former heroes and nation builders. Whatever good these dead…


Why Is Nothing Being Done About the Claim That Children Were Murdered in Canada’s Residential Schools?

Commentary Over the last two years, innumerable news reports have been published about missing children and mass or unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools (IRS) from across Canada. First, the news that the graves of 215 students were discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School at the end of May 2021 was shocking, to say…


Indigenous Families to Be Given Additional Hours of Free Childcare

Indigenous children will be eligible for an additional 36 hours of subsidised child care a fortnight under new government reforms announced by the Australian government. As part of the federal government Plan for Cheaper Child Care, the program provides Indigenous children 12 additional hours on top the current allocation of 24 hours a fortnight, which…