This is an image of a child endowment order that was auctioned in 2012. [Lot description:] Commonwealth of Australia child endowment order for Four Pounds 24th July 1945 still in original booklet, stain in right margin else EF.
This photograph shows a boy shovelling building material within the half-constructed walls of the administration building of Bindoon. Another boy is standing above him on some scaffolding. This webpage this photograph was published on is no longer in operation. This URL was taken from The Wayback Machine and is dated 22 November 2012.
This is a digitised illustrated newspaper article from 1947 about the first party of post-war child migrants from Britain to arrive in Australia.
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.
This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.
This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.
Later, flowers were laid in remembrance of those who had passed away. ‘Anecdotal evidence has shown an abnormally large percentage of suicides among care leavers’ (The Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Forgotten Australians, 2004, xvi).
This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.
This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.
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