In our first ever podcast, we cover convenient fires and floods, often held responsible for missing Care Leaver records. But are natural disasters to blame for records not being where they should be?
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Tweets reporting back from the 8th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, held at Monash University, May 28-30, 2018
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‘Female rescue homes’ were part of the female rescue movement, based on Evangelical Christian principles. In the nineteenth century, they aimed to reform – through prayer and hard work – ‘fallen women’.
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If you’re already here, spend a couple of minutes on our site improvement survey so we can make it even better when you come back
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What to expect when accessing records about yourself
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We’re celebrating our new look by posting every day this month for blogJune
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Now Pell has been committed to trial, how does the Care Leaver community view what the future may bring? Guest Post by Frank Golding
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“This award is for organisations that have increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation” A background to Find & Connect’s Hamer Keegan Award
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By the 1960s, the Queensland Government was using Wolston Park adult mental health facility to house children who were wards of the state.
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Have you encountered terms, acronyms or abbreviations on child welfare records that have left you scratching your head? Are we missing some on the site? Help us build a guide to cut through the confusion around reading records.
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