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February 2011
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Life in “The Mag”
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 >
Spirit of Australia
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 >
Cleanliness is Godliness
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 >
Cuts to victims compensation NSW
Victim compensation schemes are important to those Forgotten Australians who suffered harm in Children’s Homes. Read more >
Oh Scotland!
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 >
Escape and Blood Sisters
Two of Rachael Romero’s paintings depict some of her experiences at ‘The Pines’ in South Australia. Read more >
The examination room
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 >
Those who never left
Rachael Romero remembers the women admitted as children to ‘The Pines’, who stayed there well into their adulthood. Read more >
The Argonaut
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 >
Don’t let me catch you back here
This holy card was given to Rachael, on her leaving The Pines by a fellow resident. Read more >
