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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 V. (guest author) on 9 November, 2011
How is a Forgotten Australian supposed to obtain redress when his former institution ‘destroyed’ its records? A daughter of a Forgotten Australian shares letters from the Government of Western Australia and the Salvation Army. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians | Tagged family, files/records, redress, Salvation Army, Western Australia
By Carole May Smith (guest author) on 17 September, 2011
Carole May Smith shares a poem written by her deceased brother Christopher Peter Carroll. Chris grew up in homes in three states. He died just before Carole was to meet him after a 15 year separation. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged Bridgewater Care and Assessment Centre, family, files/records, Hollywood Children's Village, Largs Bay Cottage Home, New South Wales, poem, Salvation Army, South Australia, St Michael's, Western Australia
By Darren Sugars (guest author) on 9 September, 2011
Singer/songwriter Darren Sugars, with apologies to Rolf Harris, wrote his own lyrics to ‘Two Little Boys’ which Darren notes is ‘about someone helping another when he is down’. Darren sent these words to Minister Kevin Rudd after witnessing the frustration and ‘re-abuse’ caused by the redress process. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, poetry | Tagged family, files/records, poem, redress, song, Western Australia
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 Oliver Cosgrove (guest author) on 8 August, 2011
The names of Child Migrants from Britain and Malta are included on commemorative panels erected in Fremantle by the Western Australian Museum. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, documents, memories | Tagged files/records, 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 Darren Sugars (guest author) on 19 July, 2011
Darren Sugars sings ‘Sleep Well Tonight’, an original track which he says is ‘inspired by the personal narratives of two brave Forgotten Australians who are dear to him’. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, music | Tagged autobiography, family, performance, prisons, song, Western Australia
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 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
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