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By Garry Shooks (guest author) on 3 November, 2011
Listen to Garry Shooks, a Forgotten Australian, talk about his life in institutional ‘care’. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged family, friendship, identity, New South Wales
By Adele on 2 September, 2011
Should every day be an R U OK Day? R U OK? is a non-profit Australian organisation which aims to provide a national focus and leadership on suicide prevention. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, Stolen Generations | Tagged Australian Capital Territory, friendship, mental health, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
By Ann McVeigh (guest author) on 2 August, 2011
‘My identity was stolen from me’. Child Migrant Ann McVeigh shares her personal history and photographs of St Joseph’s Orphanage, Subiaco (now Wembley), WA. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, photos | Tagged child labour, education, family, files/records, friendship, identity, laundry, photographs, prisons, sexual abuse, St Joseph's, Western Australia
By Diane Tronc (guest author) on 1 June, 2011
Silky Oaks Children’s Home was founded by the Open Brethren and first opened in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland in 1940. In 1946 the Home was relocated to Manly. Former Silky Oaks resident Diane Tronc shares historical photos of the Home and the May 2011 Silky Oaks Reunion. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged friendship, photographs, play, Queensland, reunion, Silky Oaks
By Heather Templeman (guest author) on 31 May, 2011
Heather Templeman shares a photo and memories of cleaning the floor at Catherine Booth Salvation Army Girls Home. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged Catherine Booth Girls Home, child labour, East Kew, friendship, photographs, Salvation Army, Victoria
By Rupert Hewison (guest author) on 30 May, 2011
Rupert Hewison a former Child Migrant from Britain shares the photographs he took as an eight year old at Fairbridge House, Tresca, in Tasmania. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, memories, photos | Tagged friendship, photographs, Tasmania, Tresca
By Kathleen Foley (guest author) on 4 May, 2011
Kathleen Foley, a former resident of St Vincent’s Orphanage, Nudgee, kindly shared this photo. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged friendship, Nudgee, play, Queensland, Sisters of Mercy
By Wendy Sutton (guest author) on 19 April, 2011
Dr. Wendy Sutton, who was an inmate in The Pines (Convent of the Good Shepherd, Plympton) shares her experiences, including how she met her life-long friend. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged education, family, friendship, sexual abuse, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, South Australia, The Pines
By Mary Brownlee (guest author) on 16 April, 2011
‘My Ireland’ is the name that Mary Brownlee gave to the apron that was given to her by Sister Judith Kelly, at St. Joseph’s Home, Kincumber, NSW. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, objects | Tagged family, friendship, identity, Ireland, Kincumber, New South Wales, Sisters of St. Joseph
By Barbara Lane (guest author) on 16 April, 2011
Barbara spent time as a child in Opal House, Opal Joyce Wilding Home, Wilson Youth Hospital, Vaughan House, The Haven and at Wolston Park Hospital (Osler House) between the years 1970 and 1979. Barbara is now the co-ordinator of the support group Now Remembered Australians Inc. In her poem ‘One Man’, Barbara pays tribute to Fr. Wally Dethlefs who helped to establish The Justice for Juveniles Group, previously known as the Wilson Protest Group. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged friendship, New South Wales, Osler House, poem, prisons, Queensland, Wilson Youth Hospital, Wolston Park
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