About us
Meal time at an orphanage.
Established in 2006, the Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA) is a national group of organisations and individuals from across Australia that promotes the interests of the estimated 500,000 people who experienced institutional or other out-of-home care as children in the last century and who suffered physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse: the Forgotten Australians.
AFA works to advance its objectives at all levels of government in Australia. It works with the knowledge and cooperation of its members to advance issues at the Federal, State and Territory levels.
What we want AFA is committed to:
- Obtaining adequate acknowledgement, accountability and redress for past wrongs.
- Achieving the full implementation of the recommendations of the Senate Report, overseen by a National Watch Committee.
- Supporting current efforts to highlight child protection issues, including those relating to Indigenous people and child migrants.
Priorities
Our key priorities for the next period areto obtain:
- Resources to set up and run a national body to support and promote the interests of Forgotten Australians. A national, meaningful, written apology from the Federal Government.
- Fully funded and resourced drop-in centres in every State and Territory
- Free, open and supported access to all personal records, including the preservation of records.
- A Forgotten Australians Gold Card which provides Forgotten Australians with priority access to mainstream services such as housing, social security, counselling and health care.
AFA is currently funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and supported by Families Australia. Our secretariat is located at Families Australia, Suite 3, 7 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 Phone 02 6273 4885 • Fax 02 6273 4886
