Is the Government Just Sitting on Its Hands?

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In 20 17, there was some big legislation pass that set up national search commissions. This year, there's been an amendment to that law that's setting up a national human identification centre. So things are slowly getting better, but compared with the magnitude of the problem, there remains a lot to be done.

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