February 2011
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By Janice Konstantinidis (guest author) on 28 February, 2011
Janice Konstantinidis, shares a current photograph, as well as her detailed history of her time from the age of 12 working in the laundry of Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania, one of the Magdalena laundries, nicknamed “The Mag”. Janice also includes recollections of the lengths some girls would go to in order to escape. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged attempted escape, child labour, laundry, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Tasmania
By Graham Evans (guest author) on 22 February, 2011
This is a song by Graham Evans, a resident of St Michael’s Home, Baulkham Hills, 1958 to 1962 and St Vincent’s Boys Home, Westmead, 1962 to 1966. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories, music, Stolen Generations | Tagged apology, New South Wales, poem, protest, song
By Adele on 22 February, 2011
As a child, were you required to fulfil cleaning duties in your institution? The National Museum wishes to draw attention to this work in it pending exhibition “Inside: Life in Children’s Homes”. Can you help? Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects, Stolen Generations | Tagged child labour
By Adele on 22 February, 2011
Victim compensation schemes are important to those Forgotten Australians who suffered harm in Children’s Homes. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged New South Wales, protest, redress
By William Nelson (guest author) on 22 February, 2011
William Nelson, a former Child Migrant from Scotland, shares his poem about the importance of the reunion with his family in the UK. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged family, Scotland
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 16 February, 2011
Two of Rachael Romero’s paintings depict some of her experiences at ‘The Pines’ in South Australia. Read more >
Posted in art, Forgotten Australians, memories, painting, Stolen Generations | Tagged escape, friendship, prisons, protest, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
By Wilma Robb (guest author) on 16 February, 2011
Girls who entered Children’s Homes were often subjected, without explanation, to harsh physical exmainations. Wilma Robb shares a photo of the table used for internal examinations at Parramatta Girls Home. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged medical testing, New South Wales, Parramatta, photographs, sexual abuse
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 16 February, 2011
Rachael Romero remembers the women admitted as children to ‘The Pines’, who stayed there well into their adulthood. Read more >
Posted in art, drawing, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged child labour, drawing, food, laundry, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
By Graham Budd (guest author) on 16 February, 2011
Graham Budd arrived in Australia from England in 1939 and was sent to Northcote Farm School in Victoria. Here he recalls winning a national competition run by ABC Radio’s The Argonauts, and how his joy was tempered by the remarks of a cruel cottage mother. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories | Tagged ABC Argonauts, Christmas, Cottage mothers, Northcote Farm School, Victoria
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 14 February, 2011
This holy card was given to Rachael, on her leaving The Pines by a fellow resident. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects | Tagged friendship, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
