• Introduction: starting the journey
• Where do I start?
• Why are there files about me?
• How will I feel when I look at files about me?
• What is on the file about me?
• Where else can I go for information about me?
• Who can access records about me?
• Can I access other people's files?
• Have recordkeepers learned anything from the past?
• Getting help to find records about you
• Records Services
• Bibliography

What to expect when accessing records about you

Bibliography

• 'Our Story: history', in GordonCare for Children Website, GordonCare for Children, 2009, http://www.gordoncare.org/. Details
• Cleary, Maureen; Carroll, Caroline, Key issues in assisting Forgotten Australians to access their records, Paper given at a Who Am I? project workshop, 24 April 2009, 2009. Details
• Etherton, Judith, The role of archives in the perception of self, Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol. 27, October 2006, 227-246 pp, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379810601101301. Details
• Golding, Frank, 'Forgotten Australians pathways', in Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN), 11th January 2010, http://www.clan.org.au/news_details.php?newsID=410. Details
• Golding, Frank, Personal records and the stories they tell [draft], 2009. Details
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, Commonwealth of Australia, 1997, http://www.humanrights.gov.au/pdf/social_justice/bringing_them_home_report.pdf. Details
• MacKillop Family Services, 'Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care [Submission No 50]', in Inquiry into Institutional Care: Submissions received as at 17/03/05, July 2003, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist.htm. Details
• Murray, Suellen, John Murphy, Elizabeth Branigan, Jenny Malone, After the orphanage: life beyond the children's home, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2009. Details
• Penglase, Joanna, Orphans of the living: growing up in 'care' in twentieth-century Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2005. Details
• Queensland Department of Families, Missing pieces: information to assist former residents of children's institutions to access records, State of Queensland (Department of Families), 2001, http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/childsafety/foster-care/resources-and-publications/missing-pieces-information-to-assist-former-residents-of-childrens-institutions-to-access-records. Details
• Senate Community Affairs References Committee Secretariat, Parliament of Australia, Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children, Commonwealth of Australia, 2004, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/index.htm. Details
• Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care: Submissions received by the committee as at 17/3/05, Commonwealth of Australia, 2005, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist.htm. Details