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Daruk Training School

This is a video with footage of the Daruk Training School at the time it opened in 1960.

William Thompson Masonic School

This is a video published on The Hills Shire Council’s YouTube account. It is an excerpt from the film ‘My Brother’s Keeper (c.1950).

Back to Cootamundra

[This description was taken from the caption published on the SBS Living Black channel on YouTube. This episode aired on 9 June 2012] Its been a long journey of healing for former residents of the Cootamundra Girls Home in southern New South Wales. But nearly a hundred years after it opened members of the stolen…

Given or Taken?

Four Corners report into forced adoptions in Australia. States that, over five decades in the 20th century, thousands of women gave up their newborn children for adoption. While they were supposed to make their decision freely, many claim they were coerced, bullied and their children were effectively stolen.

Abandon All Hope – a history of Parramatta Girls Home

Caption taken from YouTube: Abandon All Hope is the first documented history of the Parramatta Girls Home – a project made possible through the Parrastories Heritage and Stories fund, Parramatta City Council. Until now the story of this State operated welfare institution has remained relatively unknown. The document examines the site’s archaeological heritage together with…

We were Burnie kids

This silent footage was produced by Burnside Homes to promote the work of the Homes and raise funds. It shows the Homes’ association with the Presbyterian Church and how some children from poor families in the inner suburbs of Sydney were taken to Burnside Homes by Reverend Scott of the Presbyterian Metropolitan Mission. It shows…

The National Apology for Forced Adoptions – Prime Minister Julia Gillard

This is a link to a video on the Julia Gillard YouTube channel of the national apology for forced adoptions.

Sorry, Kevin Rudd’s Apology to “The stolen Generation”

This is a link to a video on the Kevin Rudd YouTube channel, of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologising to the Stolen Generations.

Children’s homes: a selection of images of Australian children’s homes and institutions

This video features photographs of children’s homes and institutions in the public record. It was produced for the National Museum of Australia’s ‘Inside’ exhibition, November 2011.

Forgotten Australians & UK children abused by nuns

This YouTube video is a documentary from 1998 produced for Frontline Scotland about the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, and abuse of children in Homes in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock run by this religious order. The program also features 3 former residents of Nazareth House in Ballarat giving testimony about abuse. Representatives from the Catholic…