Resources

WEB RESOURCE

Find and Connect Web Resource – a resource for Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and anyone interested in the history of child welfare in Australia. It contains information and images of children’s homes, help to find records about a person’s childhood in ‘care’, and information about support groups and services.

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
Forgotten Australians Support Services – a dedicated support service in Brisbane including Lotus Place drop-in centre
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.

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 – Inside exhibition
National Library of Australia – oral history interviews
Department of Social Services (formerly Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) – organising the National Apology and providing ongoing funding for Find and Connect Support Services, the Find and Connect representative organisations and the Find and Connect web resource.

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.
C Walker, Charlie, the Ratbag Orphan: An Orphan Survivor in Australia, 2010.

Quotes

From Lost Innocents:

... it is gut-wrenching to tell your story, you have a hell of a hangover from it, and I feel that you need real experts to do this counselling for child migrants.

(p199)

From Forgotten Australians:

I am now over 70 years of age but still find my experiences of this Institution remain with me, and some of the traumatic things I experienced still bother me, and I believe have had a profound effect on my life.

(p44)