June 2011
You are browsing the archive for June 2011.
By Leicester Ramsey (guest author) on 24 June, 2011
‘Christiana, in our eyes you were a success’, said Leicester about his mother at her funeral. Leicester’s eulogy is an account of his history and a tribute to Christiana. It also offers insights into how children were institutionalised in Australia. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged apology, family, New South Wales, St Joseph's, St Vincent's
By Gwen (Sandra) Robinson (guest author) on 22 June, 2011
‘My heart broke for these defenseless people and still does today.’ Gwen (Sandra) Robinson was placed in Wolston Park Hospital, Tufnell Home and Home of the Good Shepherd Mitchelton. Here, she remembers her experiences at Wolston Park. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged Electro-convulsive therapy, Mitchelton, Queensland, sexual abuse, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Tufnell Home, Wolston Park
By Coral Miller (guest author) on 21 June, 2011
Coral Miller shares photographs of St Brigid’s Girls Home, Ryde, NSW. Coral and her sister were sent to St Brigid’s for five years after their mother had a breakdown when their father was killed in Malaya at the Parit Sulong Massacre. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged family, New South Wales, photographs, Sisters of Mercy, St Brigid's
By Adele on 20 June, 2011
ABC-TV’s 7.30 program reports on the court action of former students of Fairbridge Farm School, Molong, against the Fairbridge Foundation, state and Federal governments, for turning a blind eye on years of abuse. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents, events, memories | Tagged education, Fairbridge, legal action, New South Wales, sexual abuse
By Rupert Hewison (guest author) on 10 June, 2011
A letter from the mother of former Child Migrant Rupert Hewison outlines her ‘terrible shock’ at moving to Tasmania to be closer to her son, only to find her visits limited to once a month. The Senate Report on Forgotten Australians (2004) noted that visits from family members were ‘keenly anticipated’ but ‘highly regulated in many institutions’. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents, Forgotten Australians | Tagged family, files/records, Tasmania, Tresca
By Jessica Dalton (guest author) on 10 June, 2011
‘I stopped correcting them, and certainly stopped respecting them’: Jessica Dalton describes her time at Lowson House, Royal Brisbane Hospital, in 1980. Jessica was 20 at the time but some of her experiences were similar to those recounted by Forgotten Australians who were admitted to adult wards of psychiatric hospitals as children. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged forced adoption, Lowson House, Queensland, sexual abuse, Wolston Park
By Adele on 9 June, 2011
Senator Nick Xenophon is aiming to gain support for an inquiry into the Heiner Affair, according to a report on ABC Radio Brisbane. Read more >
Posted in documents, events, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged files/records, Forde Inquiry, Heiner report, Queensland, sexual abuse
By Rachael Romero (guest author) on 8 June, 2011
Rachael Romero, a former inmate of the The Pines, the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Plympton, South Australia, shares her drawing A Severed Life. Read more >
Posted in art, Forgotten Australians, painting, poetry | Tagged child labour, laundry, painting, poem, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines, United States of America
By Adele on 8 June, 2011
An X-ray scan of a leather strap made by Bill Brennan, who grew up in Clontarf Boys’ Town, WA, shows internal metal reinforcements inserted to give the strap more strength. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, objects, photos | Tagged child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, Western Australia
By Christine Harms (guest author) on 7 June, 2011
Singer/songwriter Christine Harms was admitted to Nazareth House, Wynnum, Queensland at the age of three and left when she was 13. Her original song “On Eagle’s Wings”, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is a reflection on her experiences in the Home. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, music | Tagged Nazareth House, Queensland, song, United States of America
Recent comments