The New South Wales Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme was established in 2017. It was created in response to the New South Wales government’s 2016 report, Unfinished Business, which recommended that a reparations scheme be established. The Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme provided ex-gratia payments of $75,000 to “living Stolen Generations survivors who were removed by, committed…
Case Study 11: Christian Brothers was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Perth from April to May 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Castledare Junior Orphanage, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School Tardun, and Bindoon Farm School. During…
Case Study 17: Retta Dixon Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Darwin from September to November 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Retta Dixon Home. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents of Retta Dixon Home,…
Case Study 19: Bethcar Children’s Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney from October to December 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Bethcar Children’s Home, Brewarrina, New South Wales. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents…
Case Study 26: St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Rockhampton in April 2015. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents of St Joseph’s Orphanage,…
Case Study 33: The Salvation Army children’s Homes, Australia Southern Territory was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Adelaide in October 2015. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Eden Park Boys’ Home in South Australia, Box Hill Boys’ Home and Bayswater…
Case Study 3: North Coast Children’s Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney from November 2013 to January 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore, New South Wales. During the hearings evidence…
Case Study 5: The Salvation Army boys’ Homes, Australian Eastern Territory was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney in January and February of 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys/Indooroopilly and Riverview Training Farm…
Case Study 7: Parramatta Training School for Girls was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney from February to March of 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at The Parramatta Girls’ Training School in Sydney, and The Institution for Girls in…
On 7 December 2010, the Salvation Army issued a national apology to former residents of its children’s homes in Australia who experienced abuse of any sort. The apology covered the period up until the early 1990s, according to the Salvation Army’s press release. The apology was made by General Shaw Clifton, the international leader of…
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