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Author
Robb, Wilma
Title
Hay Institution for Girls
In
Inside: Life in Children's Homes
Editor
National Museum of Australia
Type of Work
Blog
Imprint
Australian Government, 20 May 2010
Url
https://web.archive.org/web/20180311190332/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/05/20/hay-institution-for-girls/
Description

Former resident of Hay, Wilma Robb, shares her photographs taken at the Hay Girls reunion in 2007.

The Hay Institution for Girls was opened in 1961 as a maximum security institution for girls, aged 13 to 18, from the Parramatta Girls Home. Girls were sent to Hay despite their having committed no crime and without a legal trial. Girls were not permitted to speak, without permission, or to establish eye contact with anyone. This rule was enforced despite the fact that the "silent system" was outlawed in NSW in the late 1800s. Girls endured a regime of hard labour without school education.

Source
NP0000173

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  • 'Forgotten Australians: Wilma's Story - 'No eye contact'', in Forgotten Australians: Life Stories, Alliance for Forgotten Australians, 2011, https://youtu.be/iMlEs6GZnZY. Details