This is footage from a Reuters story about the explosion at the laundry of the Magdalen Home in Hobart on 5 September 1974.
This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1948 about a group of child migrants from the United Kingdom to Australia, sponsored by the Big Brother Movement. It shows a ship that had 580 ‘new settlers’ on board, and states that 250 of them were under 12 years old. It mentions that some of the…
This is historical footage of the Northcote Farm School
This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1941 that includes boys from St Vincent de Paul Boys’ Orphanage, South Melbourne. The caption reads: ‘Various shots as schoolboys make camouflage nets for the army, they weave the thick thread in and out. One boy bounces on a net held by other boys to test the…
This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1966 about Iandra Methodist Rural Centre. The caption reads: ‘VS Of large old mansion called Iandra. VS Some of the underprivileged boys who live in mansion and then they go off to work on the fields and in the pig pens. MS Group of boys, pan to…
The film “A Home For Danny” was produced for the Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare in 1966. The aim of the film was to encourage people to become foster parents. The film shows the story of a young boy, “Danny”, who is a ward of the state living at Malmesbury Receiving Home in Hobart. It…
This is a short film on Tuart Place’s YouTube channel about Redress WA. It was produced by Dr Linda Blagg in collaboration with 24 interviewees, talking about the Redress WA scheme.
‘A big photo album: the archive of the Sisters of St John of God’ is an online news item from ABC Kimberley. It shows pictures of Aboriginal children and adults at communities in the Kimberley, and is about the collection of 34,000 photographs held by the Sisters of St John of God at the Heritage…
‘Parkerville Children and Youth Care celebrates 110 years of caring’ is a video that outlines a history of the agency from the time when it began as a Home for ‘waifs’ in 1903 to 2013. The video includes photographs and re-enactments.
‘Swanbourne Hospital Revival [Claremont Mental Hospital]’ is a video news item from the 7.30 WA current affairs program. It has video images of the Claremont Mental Hospital when it was in use, and in its current, neglected condition. The program includes interviews with nurses who worked at the hospital, and outlines plans to renovate the…
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