On 19 September 2009 then New South Wales Premier, Nathan Rees, held a special ceremony in the Botanic Gardens to formally apologise to the state’s Forgotten Australians and child migrants. Mr Rees and then Community Services Minister Linda Burney unveiled a memorial as ‘a lasting tribute to the children who suffered in care in NSW’….
The New South Wales Health Commission was a government department that was responsible for running hospitals and mental health institutions from 1973 until 1982. It replaced the Department of Public Health and was abolished when the Department of Health was created. In 2013, Health Commission records are controlled by the Department of Health.
The Health Department is the New South Wales Government department that is responsible for hospitals, community health and a range of health-related institutions, including mental health. It was created in 1982 as the Department of Health and since 2009 has been known as the Health Department. The Health Department controls some records relating to children…
The office of the Director of State Psychiatric Services was the New South Wales government agency that supervised psychiatric institutions from 1958 until 1973. Its powers were transferred to the Health Commission in 1972 (later the Health Department).
On 21 March 2013, the Prime Minister Julia Gillard apologised on behalf of the Australian Government to people affected by forced adoption or removal policies and practices. The national apology was delivered in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra.
The Now-Remembered Australians is a peer-support organisation for ‘state care’ system leavers that is based in Lismore, in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. The Now-Remembered Australians formed in 2009 after members travelled to Canberra to hear the Parliamentary Apology to Forgotten Australians and Child Migrants. The group meets regularly in Lismore for mutual support…
The Inspector General of the Insane was an agency of the New South Wales Government that was created in 1876. The office was renamed Inspector General of Mental Hospitals in 1917. The first inspector, F Norton Manning, was appointed to supervise the Asylum for Imbeciles and Institutions for Idiots at Newcastle, the Lunatic Reception House…
The office of the Inspector General of Mental Hospitals was the New South Wales government agency that supervised psychiatric institutions from 1917 to 1958.
Legacy is a charity that supports the families of veterans of the Australian Armed Forces who have died or become incapacitated while on service, or subsequently. Legacy ran children’s homes across Australia. Legacy also referred widows and children to social services and to institutions. Sydney Legacy ran a number of Homes in New South Wales…
The Isabella Lazarus Children’s Home was a home for Jewish children at Hunters Hill that was founded in 1939. It was opened at the same time as the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, which ran the children’s home, and was located on the same property. It moved temporarily to Killara in 1942 then to Waverley…
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