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Forgotten Australians
New Inside exhibition website launched
A new Inside exhibition website has been launched to coincide with the third anniversary of the Australian Government’s National Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. Read more >
Photos from Remembrance Day 2011, Brisbane
The Remembrance Day 2011 event in Brisbane on 7 December was well attended and affirming. Here are some photographs from the event. Read more >
Fare thee well …
The blog is now closed. Thank you for trusting the National Museum to tell your history. Read more >
Photos from “Inside” opening
“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 >
For Violet
Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters’ commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here she shares her writing about her paternal grandmother. Read more >
Illegally adopted
Wayne (Hank) Edward Lewis (illegally adopted – Cottrell) writes, “I changed my name back to my family name – “Lewis” after the death of my adopted parents and after finally the archaic “Adoption Laws” were changed at end of 1993, and I was finally able to find my natural family only to find my Natural Mother had died in a state of depression 20yrs prior – she came back to Australia to try to find me, with no luck, I felt deprived, because of those Adoption Laws!” Read more >
The Pines
Interdisciplinary artist Rachael Romero is currently creating the Magdalene Laundry Diary drawings for her forthcoming film. Here she shares some more images from her work in progress. Read more >
Summer’s Cloud
Janice Konstantinidis was an inmate in Mount Saint Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, where she worked as an unpaid child labourer in the Good Shepherd Sisters’ commercial laundry. Janice now lives in California in USA. Here, she shares one of her recent poems. Read more >
Invitations to exhibition opening
We were deeply distressed yesterday to realise that due to a software malfunction, our email invitations to the opening were not delivered. Read more >
The Stranger
Ruby Jane Perkins shares her poem “The Stranger”. Read more >
