By Leigh Westin (guest author) on 16 September, 2010
Leigh Westin was a resident of Scarba House and Parramatta Girls’ Home, both in New South Wales. Here she shares her latest poem. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, poetry | Tagged apology, New South Wales, Parramatta
By Adele on 14 September, 2010
In his essay ‘Reap as you sow’ Bernie Matthews describes the brutal treatment – and criminalisation – of children in institutions. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged Hay, New South Wales, Parramatta, Queensland, Tamworth, Westbrook
By Graham Evans (guest author) on 13 August, 2010
G raham Evans, a former resident of St Vincent’s Westmead, recalls that printing the school newspaper was not a rewarding task. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, memories, objects, photography, photos | Tagged New South Wales, slave labour, St Vincent's
By Cath on 28 July, 2010
Here is silent archival film footage produced by Burnside Homes in the 1920s in order to promote the work of the Homes and to raise funds. The footage shows the Homes’ association with the Presbyterian Church and how some children from poor families in inner Sydney were taken to Burnside Homes. Read more >
Posted in documents, film, Forgotten Australians | Tagged Burnside, film, New South Wales
By Cath on 5 July, 2010
Another orphanage photo that sparked a memory of lost people. Do you know anyone who was at St Joseph’s in Kincumber in 1957? Mike is looking for his sisters. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, photos | Tagged New South Wales, St Joseph's
By Cath on 28 June, 2010
In the first of a two-part post, Cath points to some photographs of an orphanage, and marvels at the connections to be made by sharing online. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photography | Tagged Goulburn, New South Wales, St John's, St Joseph's
By Graham Evans (guest author) on 24 June, 2010
G raham Evans was a resident of St Vincent’s Boys Home, Westmead from 1962 to 1966. Here he shares photographs of St Vincent’s. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged New South Wales, photographs, St Vincent's
By Adele on 24 June, 2010
The Liverpool Regional Museum, in New South Wales, has an exhibit on St Ann’s Orphanage. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories, photography | Tagged files/records, New South Wales, photographs, St Ann's
By Adele on 7 June, 2010
You can listen to tracks from Leanne Hawkins’ CD In Memory of Forgotten Australians at Blue Mountain Records’ website. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, music | Tagged identity, New South Wales, performance, song
By Adele on 7 June, 2010
Now-Remembered Australians Inc is a peer support organisation for “State Care” System Leavers in the Northern Rivers Area of NSW. Read more >
Posted in Child Migrants, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged New South Wales
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