Current News Items

• Listen to memories of separation, schooling, love, loss and rediscovery from people who grew up in the care of the Foundling Hospital between 1912 and 1954 in England. View films on daily routines in the institution and individuals' life stories. Find out more about the history of the Foundling Hospital and the Foundling Voices oral history project.
• The Alliance for Forgotten Australians welcomes Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
• Oral History newsletter
• Hansard on yesterday's debate about the motion put to the Victorian Legislative Assembly by Coleen Hartland
• Churches encouraged to hold a minute's silence in support of child abuse survivors - ASCA
• Let's face the truth about Kinchela Boys Home
• Oral History project Newsletter May 2011
• Speech by WA AFA and FACT member Laurie Humphreys at the unveiling ceremony for the WA memorial to Forgotten Australians.
• Speech by former Senator Andrew Murray to the Annual General Meeting of Barnados Australia.
• Speech by former Senator Andrew Murray at the unveiling of the WA Memorial to Forgotten Australians.
• Speech by AFA Chair, Caroline Carroll, at the Canberra celebration for the Apology Anniversary, 16 November 2010
• Speech by former Senator Andrew Murray at the Canberra celebration for the Apology Anniversary, 16 November 2010
• Community Legal Centre Conference Papers - Remembering the Forgotten
• Community Legal Centre Conference Papers - Recognising Forgotten Australians
• The Forgotten Australians: Identity, records and their search for the past
• Redress WA
• Mullighan Report
• Tasmanian Government Redress Scheme
• Surviving Care Conference
• Irish Report
• Senate Inquiry (links to an external website)
• Four years on, Forgotten Australians call for healing
• AFA supports the apology to the Stolen Generation

Resource Archives

Historical information is itemised here and includes older news features. Click the item in the index that interests you then click the image to view the story (just as you can with the current news items above).