Adele
I will listen, learn and ensure that your precious memories and donated objects are treated with respect.
This site and pending exhibition deal with a tragic chapter in our history; a history of which all Australians need to be aware so that Insiders no longer have to bear the burden alone.
Dr Adele Chynoweth
Curator
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
National Museum of Australia
By Adele on 16 November, 2011
The blog is now closed. Thank you for trusting the National Museum to tell your history. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, Stolen Generations
By Adele on 16 November, 2011
“Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions” opened 15 November, 2011 at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Here are some photographs from the event, taken by George Serras. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects, photography, photos | Tagged apology, Australian Capital Territory
By Adele on 7 November, 2011
The blog will be closed on November 16, 2011 the day that the exhibition “Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions” is open at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Last day for sending posts for the Inside website is 9 November. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations
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 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 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 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 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
By Adele on 10 September, 2011
The Queensland Department of Communities has published a booklet to provide former residents of institutional care with information about the records of institutions that have been located to this date. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians | Tagged family, files/records, Forde Inquiry, Queensland
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