This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1941 that includes boys from St Vincent de Paul Boys’ Orphanage, South Melbourne. The caption reads: ‘Various shots as schoolboys make camouflage nets for the army, they weave the thick thread in and out. One boy bounces on a net held by other boys to test the…
This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1966 about Iandra Methodist Rural Centre. The caption reads: ‘VS Of large old mansion called Iandra. VS Some of the underprivileged boys who live in mansion and then they go off to work on the fields and in the pig pens. MS Group of boys, pan to…
The film “A Home For Danny” was produced for the Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare in 1966. The aim of the film was to encourage people to become foster parents. The film shows the story of a young boy, “Danny”, who is a ward of the state living at Malmesbury Receiving Home in Hobart. It…
This is a short film on Tuart Place’s YouTube channel about Redress WA. It was produced by Dr Linda Blagg in collaboration with 24 interviewees, talking about the Redress WA scheme.
‘A big photo album: the archive of the Sisters of St John of God’ is an online news item from ABC Kimberley. It shows pictures of Aboriginal children and adults at communities in the Kimberley, and is about the collection of 34,000 photographs held by the Sisters of St John of God at the Heritage…
‘Parkerville Children and Youth Care celebrates 110 years of caring’ is a video that outlines a history of the agency from the time when it began as a Home for ‘waifs’ in 1903 to 2013. The video includes photographs and re-enactments.
‘Swanbourne Hospital Revival [Claremont Mental Hospital]’ is a video news item from the 7.30 WA current affairs program. It has video images of the Claremont Mental Hospital when it was in use, and in its current, neglected condition. The program includes interviews with nurses who worked at the hospital, and outlines plans to renovate the…
The Parliament of Australia issued a national apology to the Forgotten Australians on 16 November 2009. ‘Prime Minister says sorry’ is a video of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivering that apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra.
This is a video of the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, delivering an apology to the people sent as child migrants from Britain in the twentieth century.
This website holds a video of the statement of apology made to Former Child Migrants by the British Parliament’s House of Lords.
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