By Josephine Littlehawk (guest author) on 15 September, 2011
Josephine Littlehawk generously donated her scrapbook to the National Museum of Australia. It contains photographs and memorabilia relating to her childhood at St Joseph’s Orphanage Goulburn and recent inquiries, apologies and memorials. Read more >
Posted in documents, events, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged apology, files/records, identity, memorial, New South Wales, photographs, South Australia, St Joseph's
By Leigh Westin (guest author) on 14 July, 2011
Leigh Westin, who grew up in Scarba House and Parramatta Girls Home, is sewing a memorial entitled “No More Silent Tears for Forgotten Australians”. The memorial is comprised of a large panel of handkerchiefs each decorated by those who spent time in a Children’s Home or institution. Read more >
Posted in art, Child Migrants, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects, Responding to the National Apology, Stolen Generations | Tagged apology, memorial, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
By Alan Bowles (guest author) on 3 June, 2011
Alan Bowles, who grew up in a Salvation Army Home, shares the song he wrote and performed at the unveiling of the Victorian memorial to Forgotten Australians, in Melbourne on 25 October 2010. Read more >
Posted in events, Forgotten Australians, memories, music, photos | Tagged memorial, photographs, Salvation Army, song, Victoria
By Adele on 16 December, 2010
On Friday 10th December the memorial to Western Australian Forgotten Australians was unveiled on the grassed area in front of the Western Australian Museum’s Jubilee Building, Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth. A Forgotten Australian pauses at the memorial to share her memories. Read more >
Posted in film, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged film, memorial, Mt Lawley, Western Australia
By Bob McGuire (guest author) on 15 December, 2010
Bob McGuire shares his photo of the memorial plaque that they have put on the site after 107 years, naming 24 babies who died at Parkerville. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged death, graves, memorial, Parkerville, Western Australia
By Gabrielle Short (guest author) on 2 December, 2010
Gabrielle Short shares her photographs from the unveiling of the permanent memorial to Victorian Forgotten Australians on Southbank Promenade in the City of Melbourne. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged memorial, protest, Victoria
By Adele on 12 November, 2010
Today is Forget-me-knot Day in which Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) asks all Australians to unite in support of the more than 2 million Australian adults surviving child abuse. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged memorial, New South Wales, sexual abuse
By Adele on 8 November, 2010
On Tuesday November 16, 8.30 pm, SBSONE will be screening the documentary Forgotten Australians. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, documents, Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged apology, documentary, files/records, memorial, sexual abuse
By John Murray (guest author) on 1 November, 2010
Over 100 bodies of unidentified children were discovered during a recent rebuild of the psychiatric ward at Sydney Children’s Hospital – the site of the former Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children. Here, John Murray shares photographs of the ceremony held for their reinterment. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged files/records, graves, medical testing, memorial, New South Wales, Randwick
By Adele on 7 October, 2010
A permanent memorial to Victorian Forgotten Australians will be unveiled at Southbank Promenade in Melbourne at 2pm on Monday 25 October, 2010. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged memorial, Victoria
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