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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;">Forum: Violence Against Indigenous Women in Australia and Canada: What are the Links.<br>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;">Thursday 7 April, 4 pm<br>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The Canadian government recently announced a nationwide investigation into the cases of thousands of missing and murdered
Aboriginal women. In Australia, recent cases such as the death of 22 year-old Ms Dhu in the South Hedland lock-up, the suicide of a ten-year old girl in the Kimberley, and a new rush of child removals, have focused attention on the forms of violence that constrict
and kill Aboriginal women. In this context, a panel of scholars and community activists will examine the interconnected technologies of settler-colonial violence against Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada. How can we end the killing? <br>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Speakers: </span></font></div>
<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Christa Big Canoe is Anishinabe First Nation woman and the Legal Advocacy Director of Aboriginal Legal Services in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. In addition to being the Diirector of a clinic that provides poverty law services exclusively to Aboriginal people, she is a litigator that has been before all levels of Court in Canada providing Aboriginal perspective and fighting for equality
rights. She is a passion advocate for Aboriginal woman and children. She currently is counsel to six families in the First Nation Youth Death Inquest in Thunder Bay, Ontario and a vocal advocate and counsel to families who have lost loved ones that are Missing
and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).</span></font></div>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Elizabeth Jarrett is a Gumbaynggirr grass-roots activist and poet. She is active with the Indigenous Social Justice Association
(ISJA) and has organised demonstrations against deaths in custody and other issues facing her people.</span></font></div>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Amanda Porter researches in the areas of policing and criminal justice, with a focus on colonial policing history, alternative
policing and night patrols. She is a descendant of the Yuin people.</span></font></div>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Sherene Razack is a professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Her most recent book is Dying From
Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody.</span></font></div>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Convenors: </span></font></div>
<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Padraic Gibson's research is focussed on contemporary removal of Aboriginal children, the ongoing Northern Territory Intervention
and the history of struggles for Aboriginal rights. He is active in a number of social justice campaigns.</span></font></div>
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<div class="_36hm" style="position: relative;"><font color="#141823" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Suvendrini Perera is Research Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts at Curtin University.
Her most recent book is Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka. With Sherene Razack and Christa Big Canoe, she is part of an international research project on Aboriginal and refugee deaths in custody in settler societies.</span></font></div>
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