This video features photographs of children’s homes and institutions in the public record. It was produced for the National Museum of Australia’s ‘Inside’ exhibition, November 2011.
This YouTube video is a documentary from 1998 produced for Frontline Scotland about the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, and abuse of children in Homes in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock run by this religious order. The program also features 3 former residents of Nazareth House in Ballarat giving testimony about abuse. Representatives from the Catholic…
This is a 5 minute video featuring Frank who was in care during the 1940s and early 1950s, and Samantha, who spent 5 years in residential and foster care in the 2000s. The video is part of the training resource: ‘Who Am I? Making Records Meaningful: Resources to guide Record-Keeping Practices which support Identity for…
This video of a 2008 tour of the Abbotsford Convent, Victoria, was previously uploaded in 6 parts, and has since been re-uploaded as a single video. [Description taken from Youtube]: This video is a tribute to my mother, her two sisters and three brothers who were all put into Catholic Institutional care in 1921. My…
This is a clip from the South Melbourne Methodist News from c.1924, depicting the work of Sisters with children in this inner-city suburb of Melbourne.
Al Jazeera’s Michelle Stone reports on the apology to ‘forgotten Australians’ and former child migrants.
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