This is a copy of an illustrated newspaper article from 1937 about the Free Kindergarten Union’s holiday home in Forest Hill. The Melbourne Herald published two photographs, one of a child being weighed and another of children hanging out washing. The caption reads: THEY NEED YOUR HELP. Children at the Free Kindergarten Union’s holiday home, Blackburn,…
This is a copy of photographs that were published in a newspaper article about Elizabeth Fry Retreat in October 1952, in which the matron of the institution described sending girls to be solitary confined in darkness in a cellar as punishment. The captions read: “Scribble on the wall of the cellar at Elizabeth Fry Retreat”…
This is a photograph that was published in the Herald in October 1952, accompanying an article by Laurence Turner about conditions for girls at Royal Park Depot, the first in his series of articles about “Victoria’s unwanted children”. The caption reads “Below is the exercise yard in the delinquent girls’ section of Royal Park. They used…
Please contact the Freedom of Information Department, Health Information Services, The Royal Women’s Hospital: Postal address: Locked Bag 300, Parkville VIC 3052 Phone: 03 8345 2610 Email: foi@thewomens.org.au Website: https://www.thewomens.org.au/patients-visitors/patient-record-requests
The Royal Women’s Hospital holds patient records which can be accessed by a request using the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Records relating to adoptions of babies born at the Hospital were transferred to the Victorian government in 1987, when the Women’s ceased to be an approved adoption agency. Contact Adoption Services to apply for…
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…
This is a copy of a black and white photograph of an empty bedroom. There are two single beds. On one bed there is a doll, a card and a toy collie dog.
This is a copy of a black and white photograph of an empty dining room with three sets of tables and chairs. A kitchen area is visible through a serving window.
This is a copy of a black and white photograph of the exterior of Winlaton. There are four cars parked and a driveway, with three lamposts.
This is a copy of a black and white photograph of the exterior of the Remand Office at Winbirra, showing the driveway and stairs leading up to the two entrances.
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