[From the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter] On the 28 November 2001, the Premier of Western Australia, the Honourable Dr Geoff Gallop, announced that the State Government planned to hold a Special Inquiry into the Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. This was prompted by the coronial…
On 28 May 1997, the Parliament of Western Australia passed a motion to apologise to Aboriginal families in Western Australia ‘for the past policies under which Aboriginal children were removed’ from them and expressed ‘deep regret at the hurt and distress that this caused.’ Many members of Parliament spoke in support of this motion.
On 13 August 1998, the Parliament of Western Australia passed a motion to apologise to former child migrants ‘for the past policies that led to their forced migration and the subsequent maltreatment so many experienced, and express deep regret at the hurt and distress that this caused.’ Many members of Parliament spoke in support of…
‘Papers, 1948-1997’ is a series of items donated by Oliver Cosgrove to the State Library of Western Australia in 1998. Oliver Cosgrove was sent as a child migrant to Western Australia as one of many children in the post-war Catholic migration scheme. The items are described in more detail in a manuscript note. Access Conditions…
The Select Committee into Child Migration was appointed in June 1996 by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. It was established to investigate and report on child migration to Western Australia between the early 1900s and 1967. A major aim of the Select Committee was to inquire into and report on the action necessary to assist…
Sister Kate’s Child and Family Services records, 1934-2002 [manuscript] is a collection of records held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. The collection contains a range of records, some which are restricted to protect people’s privacy. The items in this collection include personal and administration records and…
‘CBERSS’ (Christian Brothers Ex-Residents and Students Services) was established in 1995. It was set up as an independent agency to advocate for and provide a range of services to people who had been in Christian Brothers’ institutions or schools as children and who had suffered in some way from that experience. Although originally set up…
Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty Exploitation and Supporters, commonly called, VOICES, was set up by Bruce Blyth in 1991 to bring abuses suffered in Christian Brothers institutions in Western Australia to the public’s attention and to advocate for a ‘judicial inquiry’. [From the National Library’s Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project] Victims of…
‘Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project [sound recording]’ is a collection of interviews undertaken by the National Library of Australia. These interviews follow an earlier project that included oral histories from Indigenous people, missionaries, police and administrators who were ‘involved in or affected by’ the removal of Indigenous children from their families….
Kenwick Farm was established in 1947 and was a farm property for senior boys from Sister Kate’s Children’s Home in Queen’s Park. It was located in Kenwick along the Canning River, not far from Sister Kate’s. Its stated purpose was to train boys in farm work for two years after they left school aged 14….
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