Posted on 9 November 2010 by Cate Elkner
Tags: apology, documentary, Forgotten Australians
Next Tuesday the 16th of November 2010 will mark the first anniversary of the Federal Government’s Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants.
The Apology in the Great Hall of Parliament in 2009 was an amazing day, and a long-overdue endorsement of Recommendation 1 of the Forgotten Australians report (2004).
A year on from the Apology, we have …
Posted on 4 November 2010 by Cate Elkner
Tags: Forgotten Australians, submissions, updates
A few new entries have been added to Pathways this month. We came across the Excelsior Boys’ Home for the first time, in an article published in the Methodist Spectator newspaper in 1899. There’s also a new glossary term this month: mothercraft nurse. This entry has links to the Victorian babies’ homes which were also providers of mothercraft …
