Castan Centre symposium on Indigenous birth registration and birth certificates

13 January 2010Presentations now available from this symposium held in Melbourne on 1 December 2009.

Topics include:

Aunty Joy Murphy-Wandin
    
Welcome to Country
Dr Paula Gerber

Opening remarks - The experience of Indigenous Victorians relating to birth registration and birth certificates

Symposium presentation -
The experience of Indigenous Victorians relating to birth registration and birth certificates
Articles -
Making Indigenous Australians' Disappear
Making Visible the Problem of Invisibility


Elaine Terrick
    
'Being Nobody' - A firsthand account of birth registration/certificate problems


Joel Orenstein
Solicitor


Difficulties faced by Victorian Aborigines in obtaining identification

Symposium presentation -
Being Nobody: Difficulties faced by Koori Victorians in obtaining ID
Article -
The difficulties faced by Aboriginal Victorians in obtaining identification

PLAN Australia

The international context - How are these problems being addressed in other countries

Symposium presentation -  Count Every Child 


Frank Guivarra
CEO, Victorian Aboriginal
Legal Service


Potential Legal Solutions

Symposium paper
     

Melissa Castan

Concluding remarks and discussion

Noticeboard

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