http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside Life in children's homes Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:18:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/12/14/photos-from-remembrance-day-2001-brisbane/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/12/14/photos-from-remembrance-day-2001-brisbane/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:33:24 +0000 Tikka Wilson http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5146 The Remembrance Day 2011 event in Brisbane on 7 December was well attended and affirming. Here are some photographs from the event. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/12/14/photos-from-remembrance-day-2001-brisbane/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/fare-thee-well-a-while/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/fare-thee-well-a-while/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:02:08 +0000 Adele http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5101 The blog is now closed. Thank you for trusting the National Museum to tell your history. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/fare-thee-well-a-while/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/photos-from-inside-opening/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/photos-from-inside-opening/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:59:06 +0000 Adele http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5102 "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. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/photos-from-inside-opening/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/for-violet/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/for-violet/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:27:18 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5097 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. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/for-violet/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/illegally-adopted/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/illegally-adopted/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:21:32 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5082 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!" ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/illegally-adopted/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/the-pines/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/the-pines/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:18:11 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5084 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. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/the-pines/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/my-life-inside-a-children%e2%80%99s-home/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/my-life-inside-a-children%e2%80%99s-home/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:40:44 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5057 Former Child Migrant Rupert Hewison shares his personal history, from his time at St. Faith's Home in Surry, UK to his being sent to Fairbridge House ‘Tresca’ in Tasmania. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/16/my-life-inside-a-children%e2%80%99s-home/feed/ 0 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/summers-cloud/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/summers-cloud/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:05:47 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5054 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. ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/summers-cloud/feed/ 2 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/invitations-to-exhibition-opening/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/invitations-to-exhibition-opening/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:51:58 +0000 Tikka Wilson http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5051 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/15/invitations-to-exhibition-opening/feed/ 2 http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/14/the-stranger/ http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/14/the-stranger/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:08:05 +0000 Contributors http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/?p=5043 Ruby Jane Perkins shares her poem "The Stranger". ]]> http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/11/14/the-stranger/feed/ 0