By Tikka Wilson on 14 December, 2011
The Remembrance Day 2011 event in Brisbane on 7 December was well attended and affirming. Here are some photographs from the event. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology
By Adele on 16 November, 2011
The blog is now closed. Thank you for trusting the National Museum to tell your history. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, Stolen Generations
By Adele on 16 November, 2011
“Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions” opened 15 November, 2011 at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Here are some photographs from the event, taken by George Serras. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects, photography, photos | Tagged apology, Australian Capital Territory
By Janice Konstantinidis (guest author) on 16 November, 2011
Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters’ commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here she shares her writing about her paternal grandmother. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged family, identity, Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania
By Wayne Lewis (guest author) on 16 November, 2011
Wayne (Hank) Edward Lewis (illegally adopted – Cottrell) writes, “I changed my name back to my family name – “Lewis” after the death of my adopted parents and after finally the archaic “Adoption Laws” were changed at end of 1993, and I was finally able to find my natural family only to find my Natural Mother had died in a state of depression 20yrs prior – she came back to Australia to try to find me, with no luck, I felt deprived, because of those Adoption Laws!” Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged adoption, Queensland, Tufnell Home, United States of America
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 16 November, 2011
Interdisciplinary artist Rachael Romero is currently creating the Magdalene Laundry Diary drawings for her forthcoming film. Here she shares some more images from her work in progress. Read more >
Posted in art, drawing, film, Forgotten Australians, painting | Tagged child labour, identity, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
By Rupert Hewison (guest author) on 16 November, 2011
Former Child Migrant Rupert Hewison shares his personal history, from his time at St. Faith’s Home in Surry, UK to his being sent to Fairbridge House ‘Tresca’ in Tasmania. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, memories, poetry | Tagged autobiography, family, identity, meals, mental health, punishment, Tasmania, United Kingdom
By Janice Konstantinidis
(guest author) on 15 November, 2011
Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters’ commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here, she shares one of her recent poems. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, poetry | Tagged child labour, garden, Mount Saint Canice, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Tasmania, United States of America
By Tikka Wilson on 15 November, 2011
We were deeply distressed yesterday to realise that due to a software malfunction, our email invitations to the opening were not delivered. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians
By Ruby Perkins (guest author) on 14 November, 2011
Ruby Jane Perkins shares her poem “The Stranger”. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, poetry | Tagged poem
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