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 photograph that appears on the cover of St Anthony’s Family Care by Kathleen Burford (1989).
Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home is a collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is an incomplete collection of the annual reports of the Sydney Female Mission Home dating from 1873 to 1908. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible to any member of the public via…
Please contact South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Legal Services Unit: Postal address: Locked Mail Bag 21 Taren Point NSW 2229 Phone: (02) 9382 7625 Email: The email address for requesting personal health information from each hospital (including hospitals now closed) is available on the internet page linked below, under “facility contacts”. Website: https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/right-to-information/accessing-personal-health-information
In 2021 the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children rebranded, aligning all of its services under the name NextSense. NextSense provides services for children, adults and families of people with hearing or vision loss. The organisation delivers education, cochlear implant, allied health, therapy, research and clinical services.
The Records of the Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children (including the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children) are held by the successor organisation, NextSense. The historical records held on site at NextSense include annual reports…
As part of the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which ran from 2015-2022, the Inquiry investigated child migration programs to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Research and hearings took place in 2017, and the Investigation Report was published in March 2018. The Inquiry asked a series of questions about child migration schemes,…
Please contact Special Collections, University of Newcastle: Postal Address: University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308 Phone: 02 4921 5354 Website: https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/ccservices Contact form: https://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/c.php?g=945073&p=6855297
The Rosary Convent, Waratah – Archives, is a collection of records held by the University of Newcastle Special Collections created by the Rosary Convent about the School for Deaf Girls, Waratah. The collection is primarily administrative and relates to the establishment and running of the School. Records include correspondence and letters of support, lesson books…
Model legislation to harmonise adoption laws in all Australian jurisdictions was an initiative of the Australian Commonwealth in the 1960s. One pressing issue behind this move towards uniformity in adoption legislation in Australia was the lack of recognition of interstate adoption legislation. Jurisdictions all took different approaches to maternal consent and to processes such as…
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