The guest speaker for this event is Dr Mike DeGagné, founding Executive Director of Canada's Aboriginal Healing Foundation which is governed by a board of leaders from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities.
The independent foundation is responsible for distributing a $515 million fund set up by the Canadian Government in 1998 to compensate Indigenous Canadians for experiences eerily similar to those of Australia's Stolen Generations. The foundation’s mission is to address the legacy of physical, sexual, mental, cultural and spiritual abuses arising from Canada’s Aboriginal residential school system.
At this lecture, Dr DeGagné will comment on memorialisation and the historical record in Australia and South Africa. |
