October 2011
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By Diane Mancuso (guest author) on 28 October, 2011
Forgotten Australian Diane Mancuso, who recently re-connected with her UK-based sister, shares a poem about her family’s history, written by her nephew, Simon Houlders. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged apology, family, identity, New South Wales, poem, sexual abuse
By Adele on 27 October, 2011
Listen to author Al ‘Crow’ Fletcher talk about his experiences at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys. Read more >
Posted in documents, events, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged autobiography, child labour, education, prisons, Queensland, Westbrook
By Wings for Survivors (guest author) on 26 October, 2011
Wings for Survivors provided the National Museum with information concerning the petition to save the Ballarat Orphanage site. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, petition | Tagged Ballarat, heritage, protest, Victoria
By Rupert Hewison (guest author) on 25 October, 2011
Former Child Migrant Rupert Hewison writes about a birthday phonecall from his mother, received while he was at St Faith’s Home, Surrey, England, in the 1960s. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories | Tagged autobiography, family, United Kingdom
By Adele on 24 October, 2011
‘Living is easy with eyes closed’, so wrote John Lennon in the song ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, of his childhood experiences playing in the grounds of the Strawberry Field Salvation Army Children’s Home, Liverpool. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories, music, Stolen Generations | Tagged family, song
By Leanne Hawkins (guest author) on 24 October, 2011
Singer/songwriter Leanne Hawkins who spent time in St Michael’s, in Bathurst. Here you can view her latest video clip for her song ‘Momma’. Read more >
Posted in film, Forgotten Australians, memories, music | Tagged New South Wales, song, St Joseph's, St Michael's Bathurst
By Donna (guest author) on 4 October, 2011
‘Inever spoke of the abuse because it seemed normal. I had been abused in the orphanage’. In 1957, Donna, aged three, was sent into institutional care with her sister and four brothers. Donna shared her personal history with the National Museum. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged family, Forde Inquiry, Lowson House, Nazareth House, Queensland, redress, sexual abuse
By Adele on 4 October, 2011
Listen to Alliance for Forgotten Australians’ Chair, Caroline Carroll, talk, on SBS Radio, about the ‘dark secret’ of Australia’s history that she argues should be included in Australia’s national curriculum. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged Alliance for Forgotten Australians, education, family
By Diane Mancuso (guest author) on 4 October, 2011
‘These are my observations, thoughts & feelings’, writes Diane Mancuso. Many Forgotten Australians bear the burden of memories associated with institutional ‘care’. In this series of poems entitled ‘DOCS’ (Department of Children’s Services), Diane courageously demonstrates the intergenerational risk of children being lost to out-of-home care. The cycle sadly continues. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged family, foster care, New South Wales
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