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By Andrew Murray (guest author) on 14 November, 2011
“Institutional abuse does not stop when we age out of the system”. Former Senator Andrew Murray shares the essay that he co-authored with Dr Marilyn Rock “The Enduring Legacy of Growing Up In Care in 20th Century Australia”. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged bed wetting, Child Migrant Trust, Christian Brothers, employment, family, identity, Malta, medical treatment, mental health, prostitution, punishment, Salvation Army, Senate Inquiry, sexual abuse, South Australia, United Kingdom, Western Australia
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 8 August, 2011
‘We noticed that the abuses happened when the Christian Brothers were at our strongest. We were thriving in terms of vocation, power and money. The government would not dare to question us.’ Read an interview with Brother Philip Pinto, head of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, who says religious life in its traditional sense is ‘dying’. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians | Tagged Christian Brothers, sexual abuse
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 12 July, 2011
Read the Catholic ‘Record’ newspaper’s report of the arrival of young Oliver Cosgrove, one of 65 children on board the SS ‘New Australia’ in 1953. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, photos | Tagged Christian Brothers, Clontarf, London, Nazareth House, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Nazareth, St Vincent's Foundling Home, Victoria
By Patrick O'Flaherty (guest author) on 1 July, 2011
Patrick O’Flaherty arrived in Australia in 1947 thinking he was a war orphan and not knowing that his mother was alive in England. Read Patrick’s contribution to ‘Where’s the fair go? The decline of equity in Australia’, for more on his life in Australia, his shaky reunion with his mother and reconnecting with his family in Wales and Ireland. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, education, family, identity, Sisters of Nazareth, SS Asturias, Western Australia, World War II
By Adele on 8 June, 2011
An X-ray scan of a leather strap made by Bill Brennan, who grew up in Clontarf Boys’ Town, WA, shows internal metal reinforcements inserted to give the strap more strength. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, objects, photos | Tagged child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, Western Australia
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 17 May, 2011
Oliver Cosgrove writes in response to personal histories about child slave labour in children’s homes. He refers to a photograph of children building the swimming pool at Clontarf Boys’ Town, and notes that such work contravened the International Labour Organisation Convention. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents | Tagged child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, education, Western Australia
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 27 April, 2011
In a recent post on this website, Godfrey Gilmour, writes about his experience as a former Child Migrant. He remembers Father Cyril Stinson visiting his school in Malta in order to recruit boys to migrate to Australia. Oliver Cosgrove kindly contacted the National Museum with information about Father Stinson. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, documents, Responding to the National Apology | Tagged Christian Brothers, Clontarf, Malta, Western Australia
By Godfrey Gilmour (guest author) on 13 April, 2011
“Imay not have been an orphan in the real sense of the word, and my experience at Clontarf as a state ward, however, was full of orphaning experiences”. Godfrey Gilmour, a retired Anglican priest, noticed himself as a child in a photograph, published on this website, taken by Mick O’Donoghue at Clontarf Boys Town in the 1950s. Here, he shares his experiences as a child migrant from a loving family in Malta to the humiliating conditions at Clontarf. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories, photos | Tagged autobiography, bed wetting, child labour, Christian Brothers, Clontarf, education, family, food, Malta, photographs, sexual abuse, Western Australia
By Raymond Brand (guest author) on 13 April, 2011
Former Child Migrant Raymond Brand writes about his experience as a child migrant from Britain, growing up in Castledare and Bindoon, WA. Ray describes the abuse he suffered and how education and medical care were low priorities at Bindoon. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories | Tagged autobiography, Bindoon, Castledare, child labour, Christian Brothers, education, family, laundry, medical treatment, Orient Line RMS Oronsay, Western Australia
By Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 25 March, 2011
This month, a US federal judge threw out of court a class action filed on behalf of an estimated 10,000 former Child Migrants. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents, Forgotten Australians | Tagged Christian Brothers, sexual abuse, Sisters of Mercy, United States of America
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