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St Alban’s Boys’ Home

This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Havilah Little Children’s Home

This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Buckland Memorial Home for Boys

This image was included in The Sydney Morning Herald article titled ”Buckland Memorial Home for Boys’.

Church of England Girls’ Home [Carlingford]

This photo shows the front of the Church of England Girls’  Home at Carlingford. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Stewart Lee on SS Strathnaver, 1955

This is a copy of an image that was part of the exhibition: ‘On their own: Britain’s child migrants’. Stewart Lee was sent to Australia by the Fairbridge Society in 1955, aged 4, and went to Molong Farm School in New South Wales. This webpage is no longer in operation. This version was taken from…

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.

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.

School children line up for free issue of soup and a slice of bread during the Depression

This is a copy of an image from the State Library of New South Wales. Caption: School soup queue, Belmore, 2 August 1934 : During the Depression, the Parents and Citizens’ Association at Belmore North Public School served over 300 bowls of soup to the children of the unemployed each day and distributed warm clothing…

Sorry Day, 2007

This is a copy of an image from the Stolen Generations timeline on the Creative Spirits website, with the caption: ‘Sorry Day 2007. Someone had planted an Aboriginal flag on the ground expressing his sorrow for what had happened to Indigenous people’.