This is a video featuring records in the NSW state archives collection, an Admission Register from the Protestant Orphan School when it was located in Parramatta.
Rita Wright talks about her experiences at Marella Mission Farm as a survivor of the Stolen Generations. This is an excerpt from the TV show Insight (SBS), episode “Looking After the Kids”, which originally aired on April 19 2016.
This is a video posted to YouTube by Relationships Australia Tasmania in 2019, related to its provision of Forced Adoption support services in Tasmania. It includes the story of Judy Balmforth, a client of RA Tas and the author of Not named: from adoption to deadoption, 1948-2014.
This clip is part of a longer film created by Reverend Dobbinson, and shows him visiting the Collaroy Convalescent Home. Children in the Home as well as the verandah and some of the grounds are shown in the video.
Many Neighbours is a video from the Red Cross Red Crescent historic film collection. It is a short promotional film about the Australian Red Cross Society released in 1949. It was made for the Victorian Division of the Red Cross and depicts various services in repatration hospitals, convalescent homes, civilian hospitals and in homes of…
From the catalogue of the National Film and Sound Archive: “This is an excerpt from colour home movies made between 1944 and 1948 by Reverend James McCarthy, the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission on Mornington Island. Mornington Island, a remote community in the Gulf of Carpentaria, has been occupied by its traditional owners, the Lardil…
This is a video posted on YouTube by Sandie Jessamine, a former resident of Kamballa. It shows Sandie and her grand daughter walking around the former site of Kamballa and some photographs of Kamballa from the 1970s. This is the text accompanying the video: “Kamballa Special Unit was a girls home that existed between 1974…
This is a video with aerial drone footage of the former site of St Joseph’s Orphanage in Sebastapol (Ballarat).
This is a YouTube video with footage of the exterior and interior of the former St Paul’s Training School at Newhaven, Phillip Island, Victoria.
This is a video on YouTube where 4 former residents and 1 former prison officer share their memories about the Institution for Boys, Tamworth.
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