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…
Garth was established by the Child Welfare Department in Willoughby in 1924. It was a home for the segregation and treatment of children, and mothers and babies, who were suffering from venereal disease. Not all children in the home carried venereal disease, as it also housed children with polio (infantile paralysis). A commission of inquiry…
This is a collection of records of the Dreadnought Association, which was formed in the 1970s by former ‘Dreadnought boys’ (child migrants brought to Australia by the Dreadnought Trust). The records relate to to child migration and to the Government Agricultural Farm at Scheyville. Access Conditions Please contact the State Library of New South Wales…
The Male Orphan School was established by Governor Macquarie in 1819 to house destitute boys aged between seven and ten. It was located on George Street, Sydney, in the former premises of the Female Orphan School. The boys were given a basic education, learned trades such as carpentry, hat and shoe making, and, from 1923,…
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