November 2010
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By Kathryn Lucas (guest author) on 26 November, 2010
Kathryn Lucas would like to find more information about the Royal Park Depot in Melbourne. Can anyone help? Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged files/records, Melbourne Youth Justice Centre, Royal Park Depot, Turana, Victoria
By Adele on 18 November, 2010
Wilma nee Wilma Cassidy held up this napkin in the Great Hall of Parliament House during the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants on 16 November 2009. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, objects | Tagged apology, Australian Capital Territory, documentary, Hay, Manning Clark House, New South Wales, Ormond, Parramatta, prisons, protest
By Adele on 18 November, 2010
Atoy bear made by inmates of Pentridge prison was a rare treasure for Jeanette Blick as a child in Orana Methodist Home. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects | Tagged Orana, prisons, toys, Victoria
By Adele on 16 November, 2010
The National Museum of Australia honours the first anniversary of the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants by sharing a series of video interviews at Parliament House, Canberra on Monday 16 November 2009. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, film, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged apology
By Don Aziz (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
I‘m Don Aziz and I was taken from Broken Hill and put into Mittagong Boys Home at the age of 12 and then I grew up there, and then I was returned back to my mother who was a Second World War widow. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Mittagong, Mount Panang, New South Wales
By Colleen Stevenson (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
My name is Colleen and I grew up in Neerkol orphanage in Rockhampton. I went to the orphanage when I was 11 years of age. We were taken off our parents and charged with being neglected. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Neerkol, Queensland, Rockhampton
By Lynn Meyers (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
My name is Lynette Meyers. I became a ward of the state with the Victorian government in 1959, September 1959. I was there until 1963. I was sent back to my stepfather in Queensland by the Victorian government and, on the recommendations that I have now read in my file, he was the last person I should have been sent back to. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged prisons, Victoria, Winlaton
By Ron (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
My name is Ron and I am 61 years old. I am here today for the Forgotten Australians apology by Kevin – sorry, Mr Rudd. I have mixed feelings about it. One is that an apology after 60 years of basic abuse by the Salvation Army where I was incarcerated when I was 11 years old… Read more >
Posted in Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Box Hill, Salvation Army, Victoria
By Wilma Robb (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
I am Wilma Robb and I live in Canberra. I am a Forgotten Australian. I went into care when I was five years old for around about 12 months. There is no record of me leaving the orphanage in Sydney, which is Carlingford. Read more >
Posted in Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, Carlingford, New South Wales, Ormond, Parramatta, prisons
By Garry Harrison (guest author) on 15 November, 2010
Hi, my name is Garry. I was placed in an institution when I was about three months old, the same institution I was in there until I was about 13. I left there having them thinking I was going on holidays but I had no intention of coming back. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Sisters of Nazareth
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