A new round of the Records Access Documentation grants for organisations to document records relating to care leavers will open in October.
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Although we’re hearing a lot about the economy, asylum seekers, “jobs & growth”, climate change, negative gearing, health and education during this looooong federal election campaign, it is heartening to see that out-of-home care and supporting young people leaving care are emerging as issues.
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This year we have decided to join the movement #blogjune. The idea is one blog post every day in June. (We will keep it Monday to Friday for practicality’s sake!)
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One year ago, on 1st June 2015, we launched the Find & Connect web resource blog. As I write this post, we have published 33 blog posts, received 61 comments, made 74 links to pages on the Find & Connect web resource and had close to ten thousand page views.
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New content, new visually engaging timeline, new induction pack to help navigate the site. Last week the Find & Connect web resource updated and added some great new features. To access the Induction Pack and the interactive timeline just head to the footer from any page on the site.
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Last week, Charlotte Wood won the Stella Prize for her novel The Natural Way of Things. The Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s writing and this book explores contemporary misogyny in Australia . In Charlotte’s Stella Interview she spoke about some of the inspirations behind the book:
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This past week, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has resumed its hearing for the Case Study into the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat. Cardinal George Pell’s testimony from Rome lasted four days and was a pivotal moment in the eyes of Ballarat survivors of child sexual abuse.
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Some of our readers might be interested in a recent publication, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the unveiling of the memorial to Victorian Forgotten Australians.
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In December 2015, ABC Online had an article about a precious collection of photographs that a woman discovered while cleaning out her deceased aunt’s home. The home belonged to Annie Woods, who had been a mothercraft nurse in the 1960s, working in a number of children’s institutions in Victoria.
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The Department of Social Services (DSS) recently released a new publication: Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants: access principles for records holders, best practice guidelines in providing access to records. This document is a landmark step in the ongoing implementation of the recommendations made in the Senate’s 2004 ‘Forgotten Australians’ report.
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