This image shows a mural on a building at the Daly River Mission. The exact purpose of the building and whether or not it housed children in care on the Mission is not known.
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 copy of an image produced by the American Philosophical Society, titled ‘Eugenics is the self direction of human evolution’. It depicts a tree with roots, labelled with many different scientific fields, such as Genealogy, Genetics and Psychology. The caption reads “Like a tree, eugenics draws its materials from many sources and organizes…
This is an image of a postcard printed by CLAN as part of its campaign for a Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. This postcard was addressed to the Premier of Victoria.
Four Corners report into forced adoptions in Australia. States that, over five decades in the 20th century, thousands of women gave up their newborn children for adoption. While they were supposed to make their decision freely, many claim they were coerced, bullied and their children were effectively stolen.
This is a link to a video on the Kevin Rudd YouTube channel, of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologising to the Stolen Generations.
This is a link to a video on the Julia Gillard YouTube channel of the national apology for forced adoptions.
This is a copy of an image from the Stolen Generations timeline on the Creative Spirits website, with the caption: ‘Sorry Day 2007. Someone had planted an Aboriginal flag on the ground expressing his sorrow for what had happened to Indigenous people’.
This is an image of a child endowment order that was auctioned in 2012. [Lot description:] Commonwealth of Australia child endowment order for Four Pounds 24th July 1945 still in original booklet, stain in right margin else EF.
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