April 2011
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By Adele on 28 April, 2011
On weekends, I remember my family used to host Barbara Storey from St Mary’s Mission of Hope Children’s Home, Adelaide. I wonder where she is now. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 27 April, 2011
In a recent post on this website, Godfrey Gilmour, writes about his experience as a former Child Migrant. He remembers Father Cyril Stinson visiting his school in Malta in order to recruit boys to migrate to Australia. Oliver Cosgrove kindly contacted the National Museum with information about Father Stinson. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, documents, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Christian Brothers, Clontarf, Malta, Western Australia
By Adele on 27 April, 2011
Sinead O’Connor’s “This is to Mother You” was played at the Healing Service and Memorial Dedication to the Forgotten Australians of NSW, 19 September 2009. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, music | Tagged song
By The Benevolent Society (guest author) on 21 April, 2011
Carolin Wenzel from The Benevolent Society lets us know about two current ways to support children’s safety. Members of the public are invited to suubmit their view to the Senate Inquiry into Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011 [Provisions]. There is also a Rally for Children’s Safety at Parliament House, Canberra on Wednesday 25 May 2011. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, documents, events, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, Bikers United Against Child Abuse, education, family, legislation, protest, The Benevolent Society
By Wendy Sutton (guest author) on 19 April, 2011
Dr. Wendy Sutton, who was an inmate in The Pines (Convent of the Good Shepherd, Plympton) shares her experiences, including how she met her life-long friend. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged education, family, friendship, sexual abuse, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
By Mary Brownlee (guest author) on 16 April, 2011
‘My Ireland’ is the name that Mary Brownlee gave to the apron that was given to her by Sister Judith Kelly, at St. Joseph’s Home, Kincumber, NSW. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, objects | Tagged family, friendship, identity, Ireland, Kincumber, New South Wales, Sisters of St. Joseph
By Barbara Lane (guest author) on 16 April, 2011
Barbara spent time as a child in Opal House, Opal Joyce Wilding Home, Wilson Youth Hospital, Vaughan House, The Haven and at Wolston Park Hospital (Osler House) between the years 1970 and 1979. Barbara is now the co-ordinator of the support group Now Remembered Australians Inc. In her poem ‘One Man’, Barbara pays tribute to Fr. Wally Dethlefs who helped to establish The Justice for Juveniles Group, previously known as the Wilson Protest Group. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged friendship, New South Wales, Osler House, poem, prisons, Queensland, Wilson Youth Hospital, Wolston Park
By Godfrey Gilmour (guest author) on 13 April, 2011
“Imay not have been an orphan in the real sense of the word, and my experience at Clontarf as a state ward, however, was full of orphaning experiences”. Godfrey Gilmour, a retired Anglican priest, noticed himself as a child in a photograph, published on this website, taken by Mick O’Donoghue at Clontarf Boys Town in the 1950s. Here, he shares his experiences as a child migrant from a loving family in Malta to the humiliating conditions at Clontarf. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories, photos | Tagged autobiography, bed wetting, child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, education, family, food, Malta, photographs, sexual abuse, Western Australia
By Raymond Brand (guest author) on 13 April, 2011
Former Child Migrant Raymond Brand writes about his experience as a child migrant from Britain, growing up in Castledare and Bindoon, WA. Ray describes the abuse he suffered and how education and medical care were low priorities at Bindoon. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories | Tagged autobiography, Bindoon, Castledare, child labour, Christian Brothers, education, family, laundry, medical treatment, Orient Line RMS Oronsay, Western Australia
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 13 April, 2011
R achael Romero, who was an inmate in The Pines (Convent of the Good Shepherd, Plympton) shares one of her poems: Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged friendship, poem, prisons, running away, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
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