Croker Island Exodus (directed by Stephen McGregor) is a film depicting the 1942 journey of 95 Aboriginal children and their carers, from the Croker Island Mission (run by the Methodist Overseas Mission) to a Methodist farm at Otford, south of Sydney. The film is screening on ABC1 on Tuesday 20 November 2012 at 8.30pm.
The journey was a result of …
Last week, the Australian newspaper had a story about a call from former Senator Andrew Murray for the history of institutional ‘care’ to be included in the new national history curriculum. You can read the full article here.
Murray called for the national history curriculum to include the Australian government’s apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants …
On 6 December 2010, the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee released its report from the Review of Government Compensation Payments. The review began in February 2010, and the Committee received 185 submissions from members of the public.
Recommendations from the December 2010 report included that the state governments of Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia review their redress …
