Resources
Organisations
- Alliance for Forgotten Australians – an alliance of groups and selected individuals promoting the interests of Forgotten Australians through advocacy and projects
- Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) – a network for people who grew up in Australia's orphanages, children's homes and in foster care
- Child Migrants Trust – an independent professional service for former child migrants, their parents and relatives
- Parragirls – Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Association, which serves as a support network and advocacy group for Forgotten Australians in New South Wales
- Pathways – historical resources for people who experienced out-of-home 'care' in Victoria
- Website for the Forgotten Australians – a site paid for, built and owned by system leavers across Australia – information about services and upcoming events; a good place to find people who you can talk to 24/7; advocacy, support, information, forum and blog
- Wing for Survivors – a social media platform for Forgotten Australians to interact
Media coverage
Keep up-to-date with 'Forgotten Australians' (via Google):
Listen to earlier news about the apology:
- ABC Radio National – Breakfast on the national apology to the Forgotten Australians, 26 October 2009
- ABC Radio National – The Law Report on the call for a national apology, 10 March 2009
Partners in the History project
- National Museum of Australia – making an exhibition
- National Library of Australia – recording oral history interviews
- Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs – organising the national apology – see their Q&A about the apology
Australian Government reports
- Bringing Them Home – report on the 'Stolen Children', 1997
- Lost Innocents – righting the record – report on child migration, 2001
- Forgotten Australians – report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children, 2004
- Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Revisited – report on the progress with the implementation of the recommendations of the Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Reports, 2009
Books
- M Fawdry, The Little Mongrel: Free to a Good Home, M Fawdry, Launceston, Tasmania, 2006.
- S Killens and L Lewis, The Inconvenient Child: A True Story, Miracle Publishing, St Leonards, New South Wales, 2009.
- K Meekins, Red Tape Rape, K Meekins, Adelaide, 2008.
- S Murray, J Murphy, E Branigan & J Malone, After the Orphanage: Life Beyond the Children's Home, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009.
- J Penglase, Orphans of the Living: Growing up in 'Care' in Twentieth-Century Australia, Curtin University Books, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2005.
- P Scottney-Turbill, Morialta: Fire in the Mist, P Scottney-Turbill, Stirling, South Australia, 1994.
- R Szablicki, Orphanage Boy: Through the Eyes of Innocence, New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, 2007.
Other resources?
To suggest further resources to add to this site, please email contact_us@forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au
