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Inside: Life in Children’s HomesOpens November 16, 2011
National Museum of Australia
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
National Museum of Australia
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
National Museum of Australia
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
National Museum of Australia• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history
and culture
• Australia's history and society since 1788
• the interaction of people with the environment.
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Informed by three reports:1. Bringing them Home (Australian Human
Rights Commission, 1997)
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Informed by three reports:2. Lost Innocents (Senate Community Affairs References Committee, 2001)
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Informed by three reports:
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Informed by three reports:3. Forgotten Australians (Senate Community Affairs References Committee, 2004)
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Children at Silky Oaks (Home founded by Open Brethren),
Brisbane, QLD
Informed by three reports:
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
St Vincent’s Orphanage, Nudgee, QLD
Statistics
• 50,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, some of whom belong to the Stolen Generations
• 7,000 Child Migrants
• 500,000 Forgotten Australians
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
What did they experience?• Separation from and
loss of family
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Nun from the order of Sister of the Good Shepherd escorting a girl, Children's Court Albion Street, Sydney, 25 October, 1963
What did they experience?• Deception (lied to about family members –
e.g. “They’re dead” or “They don’t want you”)
• Neglect and exploitation (poor nutrition, slave labour
• Assault (criminal, not simply the use of controlled corporal punishment)
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
What did they experience?• Poor health care
• Lack of education (illiteracy is an issue for survivors)
• Loss of identity (named changed)
• Medical testing
• No post-care transition education
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Website address
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Website
• personal narrativeshttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/16/the-argonaut
/• poetryhttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/01/10/ill-be-your-mate
/• songshttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/06/07/on-eagles-wings
/
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
Website
• visual arthttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/03/31/
depression/• objectshttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/04/16/
my-ireland/• reunionshttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/05/27/
winlaton-reunion/
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Website
• protestshttp://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/12/14/
the-first-anniversary-2/
Inside: Life in Children’s Homes
