May 2011
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By Heather Templeman (guest author) on 31 May, 2011
Heather Templeman shares a photo and memories of cleaning the floor at Catherine Booth Salvation Army Girls Home. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged Catherine Booth Girls Home, child labour, East Kew, friendship, photographs, Salvation Army, Victoria
By Rupert Hewison (guest author) on 30 May, 2011
Rupert Hewison a former Child Migrant from Britain shares the photographs he took as an eight year old at Fairbridge House, Tresca, in Tasmania. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories, photos | Tagged friendship, photographs, Tasmania, Tresca
By Gabrielle Short (guest author) on 27 May, 2011
On 15 April 2011 Dennis Fogarty posted a request on our Message Board, asking if anyone had photos taken during 1955-56, of Nazareth House in Sebastopol, Victoria. Gabrielle Short has kindly forwarded the following photos. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged Nazareth House, photographs, Victoria
By Gabrielle Short (guest author) on 27 May, 2011
Gabrielle Short has organised a reunion of former inmates from the Winlaton Youth Training Centre. ‘It’s time to hold our heads up high and be proud of who we are and the fact that we have survived and are still here to tell our stories,’ says Gabbi. The reunion will take place at Open Place in Melbourne on 29 October 2011. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians | Tagged prisons, reunion, Victoria, Winlaton
By James McMurchy (guest author) on 27 May, 2011
James McMurchy grew up in St Cuthbert’s Home for Boys, Colac, Victoria where his single mother was employed as a house parent. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged Anglican Church, family, St Cuthbert's, Victoria
By Adele on 25 May, 2011
Australia’s history of the institutionalisation of young women includes incidents of the forced adoption of babies belonging to unmarried mothers. Jennifer Byrne for Network Ten’s The 7pm Project reports on the current Senate Inquiry into these former policies and practices. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged apology, forced adoption
By Adele on 25 May, 2011
ABC-TV’s 7.30 program reports on the soon-to-be released film Oranges and Sunshine. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, film, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged apology, family, film, identity, performance
By Wayne Chamley and Tony Danis (guest author) on 23 May, 2011
Dr Wayne Chamley, an advocate from Broken Rites, shares the history of Tony Danis. Tony was held in the Mont Park Asylum after escaping from a home run by the brothers of St. John of God. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged child labour, education, prisons, Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, sexual abuse, St John of God Brothers, Victoria
By Rachel Romero (guest author) on 18 May, 2011
New York artist and film-maker, Rachael Romero, and former inmate of ‘The Pines’, Sisters of the Good Shepherd Convent, Plympton, South Australia shares a page from her book which will be published this year. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, painting | Tagged child labour, laundry, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 17 May, 2011
Oliver Cosgrove writes in response to personal histories about child slave labour in children’s homes. He refers to a photograph of children building the swimming pool at Clontarf Boys’ Town, and notes that such work contravened the International Labour Organisation Convention. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents | Tagged child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, education, Western Australia
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