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Perth Girls Orphanage Christmas

2024 Christmas Closures

  • December 18, 2024
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Find & Connect Support Services will be taking a short break over Christmas, check here for their opening times & who to contact if you need some help.

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Apology 15 year anniversary

  • November 15, 2024
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It’s been 15 years since the National Apology to Forgotten Australians & Former Child Migrants

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The Find & Connect website is switching over today!

  • July 4, 2024
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The new www.findandconnect.gov.au is live

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Countdown to the Website Switch!

  • May 3, 2024
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Website upgrade will be live soon!

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World Wars in a Children’s Home

  • April 24, 2024
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On ANZAC Day we remember the experience of children in care in both WW1 & WW2

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Survivors of Kinchela Boys Home speak out

  • April 12, 2024
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Survivors of Kinchela Boys Home appeared on the news for holding truth telling sessions – watch it here

Freedom of Information Inquiry, Vic

  • March 28, 2024
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We recently gave evidence to the Victorian government’s Inquiry into the operation of the Freedom of Information Act. Here’s what we said

Submission: Truth Telling for Stolen Children – Records and the Yoorrook Justice Commission

  • March 15, 2024
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There’s no way of knowing what records were created & are still held by NGO’s about Aboriginal children removed from their families.

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Film: Starting & Ending Life in an Institution

  • February 23, 2024
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For people who were abused in institutional care as children, aged care is a frightening, and re-traumatising, idea.

Jacinta Allan apology

Victorian Parliamentary Apology

  • February 9, 2024
  • in Features, News
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”Today we acknowledge a shameful chapter in our history and the experience of a group of Victorians who have fought for a long time to be heard”

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