This is a copy of a photograph of Elim House from the mid twentieth century, from the Salvation Army Archives. It was published in an article in The Examiner on 23 August 2023, and was supplied to the newspaper by Shelley Freeman.
Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL) was established in June 1973 to provide hostel accommodation and related services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. AHL was established by the Commonwealth Government as a not-for-profit company, with the AHL board reporting to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. It ran at least one children’s home/hostel for…
A Resource for People with Experience of Adoption and/or Out-of-Home Care
Aboriginal Affairs photographic negatives is a series held by the National Archives of Australia. It consists of black and white 35mm and 6 x 6cm negatives and three 5 x 4″ (12.5 x 10cm) colour internegatives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. These items document events relating to Aboriginal Affairs. It includes photographs of institutions such…
These 8 Labour ward Books contain details about patients in the Labour and maternity ward at Mersey General Hospital. The books include information such as: time and date of admission, name, age, address, religion, and the times of clinical events during a patient’s admission. Access Conditions These records are open access. For access to these…
Please contact Legal Services, Department for Education, Children and Young People: Postal Address: GPO Box 169, Hobart, TAS 7000 Phone: (03) 6165 6187 Email: RTI.PIP@decyp.tas.gov.au Website: https://www.decyp.tas.gov.au/about-us/policies-legislation-data/legislation/personal-information/
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,…
This is a video posted to YouTube by Relationships Australia Tasmania in 2019, related to its provision of Forced Adoption support services in Tasmania. It includes the story of Judy Balmforth, a client of RA Tas and the author of Not named: from adoption to deadoption, 1948-2014.
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…
These two photographs were published in an article in the Examiner newspaper on 14 July 1944 titled ‘Care of Crippled Children’. The caption published with the images reads ‘The top picture shows the St. Giles’ Home for Crippled Children at Amy-road, and the lower is that of the new school (opened this year) attached to…
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