September 2011
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By Rosie Klohs (guest author) on 30 September, 2011
Listen to the interview with Forgotten Australian Rosie Klohs and her brother Bill, reunited after 53 years. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, memories, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged apology, Australian Capital Territory, family, files/records, identity
By Hugh McGowan (guest author) on 30 September, 2011
Read the letter from Superintendent of Quarrier’s Homes, Scotland to Former Child Migrant, Hugh McGowan’s mother asking for her permission to send her son to Australia. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, documents | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, family, Quarrier's Homes, Scotland
By Priscilla Taylor (guest author) on 30 September, 2011
Further to her post on 11 July, this year, Priscilla Taylor has provided more letters from her personal government file which show that her mother had very few rights with regard to visiting her. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects | Tagged files/records, South Australia, Spence Cottage Home
By Lily Fontaine (guest author) on 27 September, 2011
Forgotten Australian and author Lily Fontaine has published her autobiography ‘The Other Side’. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged autobiography, family, files/records, identity, Queensland
By Clayton Rogers (guest author) on 27 September, 2011
Local Westbrook resident and Inside website contributor Clayton Rogers invites all Westbrook Boys Home survivors to the Westbrook Family Fun Day. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged family, Queensland, Westbrook
By Adele on 26 September, 2011
‘What we call the beginning is often the end’ – so wrote British poet T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets (thank you to Former Child Migrant, Rupert Hewison for drawing my attention to this poem having quoted from it in one of his posts). It’s nearly time for the exhibition to open and for the active phase of the Inside blog to come to an end. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians
By Graham Evans (guest author) on 23 September, 2011
Graham Evans shares a photograph of the St Vincent’s choir in 1962. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged New South Wales, performance, photographs, St Vincent's
By karolina on 23 September, 2011
‘Where the little inmates are permitted to grow up natural and normal human beings.’ ‘Inside’ assistant curator Karolina Kilian came across a 1933 ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ article about the Church of England Homes for Children. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, documents, Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged Australian Women's Weekly, Carlingford, Church of England, Havilah, Leura, New South Wales, photographs
By Adele on 22 September, 2011
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge will move to amend the Roman Catholic Church Trust Property Act so that victims have access to just compensation. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged files/records, New South Wales, redress
By Adele on 20 September, 2011
I have edited some contributions recently on the basis that they were not in keeping with the guidelines for this website. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Responding to the National Apology, Stolen Generations
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