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.
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 is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.
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…
Al Jazeera’s Michelle Stone reports on the apology to ‘forgotten Australians’ and former child migrants.
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