The 30 June 2011 will see the expiry of the term of Senator for New South Wales, Steve Hutchins. During his time in parliament, Hutchins was a member of the Senate’s Community Affairs Reference Committee, which conducted the inquiries into child migration and children in institutional care. In his valedictory speech to the Senate on 22 June 2011, Hutchins reflected …
The community services organisation Connections UnitingCare, with the assistance of a Victoria 175 History Grant, has made 80 years of historic images available on the web through the photo-sharing website, flickr.
Connections UnitingCare’s predecessor organisations include the Methodist Babies’ Home and the Presbyterian Babies’ Home. Many of these images come from slides used by the ‘slum abolition’ …
Jenny Macklin, the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, has released details of the first phase of the national investment in the Find and Connect Service. The Find and Connect Service will help Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants access support and counselling, locate and access personal, family and historical records, and to reconnect with family …
