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Inside: Life in Children’s Homes

Inside: Life in Children’s Homes. Opens November 16, 2011. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes. National Museum of Australia. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes. National Museum of Australia. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes. National Museum of Australia. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes.

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Inside: Life in Children’s Homes

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  1. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Opens November 16, 2011

  2. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes National Museum of Australia

  3. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes National Museum of Australia

  4. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes National Museum of Australia

  5. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes National Museum of Australia • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture • Australia's history and society since 1788 • the interaction of people with the environment.

  6. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Informed by three reports: • Bringing them Home (Australian Human Rights Commission, 1997)

  7. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Informed by three reports: 2. Lost Innocents (Senate Community Affairs References Committee, 2001)

  8. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Informed by three reports:

  9. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Informed by three reports: 3. Forgotten Australians (Senate Community Affairs References Committee, 2004) Children at Silky Oaks (Home founded by Open Brethren), Brisbane, QLD

  10. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Informed by three reports: St Vincent’s Orphanage, Nudgee, QLD

  11. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Statistics • 50,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, some of whom belong to the Stolen Generations • 7,000 Child Migrants • 500,000 Forgotten Australians

  12. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes What did they experience? • Separation from and loss of family Nun from the order of Sister of the Good Shepherd escorting a girl, Children's Court Albion Street, Sydney, 25 October, 1963

  13. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes What did they experience? • Deception (lied to about family members – e.g. “They’re dead” or “They don’t want you”) • Neglect and exploitation (poor nutrition, slave labour • Assault (criminal, not simply the use of controlled corporal punishment)

  14. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes What did they experience? • Poor health care • Lack of education (illiteracy is an issue for survivors) • Loss of identity (named changed) • Medical testing • No post-care transition education

  15. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Website address

  16. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Website • personal narratives http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/16/the-argonaut/ • poetry http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/01/10/ill-be-your-mate/ • songs http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/06/07/on-eagles-wings/

  17. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Website • visual art http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/03/31/depression/ • objects http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/04/16/my-ireland/ • reunions http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/05/27/winlaton-reunion/

  18. Inside: Life in Children’s Homes Website • protests http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/12/14/the-first-anniversary-2/

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