May 2010
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By Adele on 28 May, 2010
BishopAccountability.org is a U.S. website which plans to post all publicly available documents concerning the Catholic abuse crisis, specifically in relation to the U.S. bishops who have knowingly transferred abusive priests into other parishes and dioceses. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, documents | Tagged United States of America
By Rhonda Trivett (guest author) on 28 May, 2010
Rhonda Trivett, at the age of 13, from 1974 – 1981, was locked in the maximum security ward (Osler House), in Wolston Park Hospital, Brisbane. In her video, talks about her experiences and the need for redress. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, film, Forgotten Australians, memories, Stolen Generations | Tagged education, Osler House, Queensland, redress, Wolston Park
By Rhonda Trivett (guest author) on 26 May, 2010
Rhonda Trivett, from her experience as an adolescent, locked in the maximum security ward of an adult mental health facility, Wolston Park in Brisbane, asks that we make things right. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged Queensland, Wolston Park
By Rhonda Trivett (guest author) on 25 May, 2010
In this poem, Rhonda Trivett describes the importance of her son in her life. Read more >
Posted in art, Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry, Stolen Generations | Tagged Queensland, Wolston Park
By Rhonda Trivett (guest author) on 25 May, 2010
Rhonda shares a poem about life as a teenager in the adult maximum security ward in Wolston Park Hospital, Queensland. Read more >
Posted in art, Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry, Stolen Generations | Tagged Osler House, Queensland, sexual abuse, Wolston Park
By Wilma Robb (guest author) on 20 May, 2010
Former resident of Hay, Wilma Robb, shares her photographs taken at the Hay Girls Reunion in 2007. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photography | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, Hay, New South Wales, Parramatta, prisons
By Adele on 19 May, 2010
On March 24 2010, in Parliament House in Brisbane, the Queensland Government gave an Apology to former children under state care who were placed in adult mental hospitals. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged apology, Queensland
By Adele on 12 May, 2010
The Australian Government’s Budget 2010-11 includes funding for a Find and Connect Service for Forgotten Australians. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians | Tagged apology, files/records
By Rhonda Trivett (guest author) on 10 May, 2010
In this poem, Rhonda describes how her mother’s love helped her endure the many years she spent in homes and mental health facilities, after her father died when she was eight. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged Chermside, Lowson House, poem, Queensland, Sandgate, Wolston Park
By Bonney Djuric (guest author) on 4 May, 2010
Bonney Djuric is a former resident of Parramatta Girls Home. Here is a section from her film Asylum which was produced as a major art work for her Honours year in 2005 at the National Art School, Sydney. Read more >
Posted in art, film, Forgotten Australians, memories, music, painting, photography | Tagged film, New South Wales, Parramatta
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