“It’s not always about the worst, sometimes we really need to keep that balance with good stuff”
Before COVID-19, Spanish flu tore through the world’s population, threatening children in institutional care in Australia.
Putting people in control of the narrative around their time in care with their own stories & in their own words.
Guest Post: “The colonial archive continues to have a disempowering impact on our people whose lives have been extensively documented and controlled for the purposes of surveillance and dispossession.”
For children in care, summer came with the opportunity of a holiday.
Care Leavers Australia-wide now have access to CLAN’s Orphanage Museum through their new online collection.
Wayne Lewis, who spent time in “care” as a child gives a sense of what Christmas could be like, both in “care,” and when actually cared for, growing up out of home.
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This blog post is to share some good news about newly-available records at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra. The records relate to the payment of child endowment to children’s institutions by the Commonwealth government.
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Reading the reports from the deaths in custody Royal Commission, there are many ideas which still resonate today – about access to archival records, about the intergenerational legacy of institutionalisation, about justice.
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Babies, usually from unwed mothers, were handed in to the Foundling Hospital until 1954. They were registered with a number & given a new name to disguise any connections to their birth families.
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