News and Updates - Letters to Newspapers
This page is devoted to letters to Newspapers concerning stories by or about Care leavers.
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Letters to The Age about the Archbishop Hart appearing at the Victorian Inquiry into Child Abuse The Age 22nd May 2013 Updated 22nd May 2013 ... more 
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Posted 24/05/2013
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Calling for a Royal Commission Leonie Sheedy ABC 4 Corners 18th August 2003 15th January 2013 CLAN co-founder and Executive Officer called for a Royal Commission several years and wrote a letter to ABCs 4 Corners back in August 2003. Click on to read the comments. ... more
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Posted 15/01/2013
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Letter to the Editor: Put research online The Age 10th November 2012 Updated 12th November 2012 CARE Leavers Australia Network, the national support and advocacy network for people who were in orphanages and children's homes, recently provided research to the Victorian inquiry into the Catholic Church. The research, from the Victoria Police Gazettes, shows children who absconded from Victorian institutions. Over a nine-year period, 1528 Victorian children ran away from church, charity and government homes. Most were in government-run orphanages like Turana, Royal Park Depot and Winlaton. ... more
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Posted 12/11/2012
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Self serving strategy leaves credibility in tatters Barney Zwartz The Age 11th October Updated 15th October 2012 COMMENT: THIS IS the worst nightmare made real for the Catholic Church, its careful defences of its handling of clergy sexual abuse reduced to ruins by Victoria Police. ... more
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Posted 15/10/2012
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CLANs Response to ABCs Four Corners Investigation CLAN an advocacy and support group for those who spent some or all of their time in church, charity or state institutional homes is also a strong advocate for the establishment of a Royal Commission into not only sexual abuse by the Catholic Church but also by the Salvation Army, Anglicans, Brethern, Methodists, Presbyterians, Sydney City Mission and others who under the guise of religion and trust raped, digitally raped, and committed all types of sexual perversions upon children who were entrusted to their care. ... more
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Posted 09/07/2012
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Inquiry needed for kids in state care Herald Sun 24th April 2012 Its great to see all the support for the state inquiry into abuse children in religious care. Thank you to the CLAN member who wrote to the Herald Sun. ... more
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Posted 01/05/2012
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Why are we not holding the government accountable for sex abuse? Angela Sdrinis The Age 19th April 2011 While much has been written and said about the Victorian Governments parliamentary inquiry, little has been said of the failure to include in the current terms of reference an investigation of the Governments role in the handling of child sex abuse allegations. ... more
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Posted 19/04/2012
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Mr Balillieu must act now Letter from VIC CLAN member Frank Golding 13th April 2012 Whether you look at it in terms of moral leadership or political astuteness, Melbourne Archbishop Denis Harts reported response ... more
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Posted 13/04/2012
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Right of all kids Letter from VIC CLAN member Frank Golding The Age 3rd April 2012 YOUR editorial is spot on all donor conceived children should be able to know who they are Special thank you to CLAN member Frank for writing this letter The Age ... more
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Posted 03/04/2012
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Wards Deserve Better Letter from VIC CLAN member Frank Golding to the Age CLAN member Frank Golding recently wrote a letter The Age about the findings that DHS are withholding personal records and files. THE state Ombudsman has reported that the records on state wards held by the Department of Human Services are shambolic. ... more
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Posted 06/03/2012
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State must act on crimes in church The Age 3rd December 2011 How can an organisation devoted to good in the service of God have done such harm to the most vulnerable of people? ... more
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Posted 05/12/2011
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Coalition has failed to secure Open Place future Jacinta Allen - Member for Bendigo East Bendigo Advertiser th October 2011 Liberal Minister for Community Services Mary Wooldridge (Bendigo Advertiser, Saturday) is not being up front about her governments lack of support for the Open Place service for Forgotten Australians. ... more
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Posted 18/10/2011
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Credit where it's due Derek M Riverine Grazier 22nd December 2010 There was a glaring mistake on the front page of the Riverine Grazier of December 8 in the story relating to the National Library history project. ... more
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Posted 14/10/2011
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Two years on, our memorial is fading fast CLAN The Mercury 12th October 2010 THANK you for the coverage of your social at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens at the memorial for people raised in Tasmanian orphanages, childrens homes and foster care. ... more
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Posted 12/10/2010
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Abused children defenceless Gary R. Green, Wantima Herald Sun 4th August 2010 OK, Kristy Fraser Kirk was allegedly the target of inappropriate advances and comments and perhaps had her bra strap touched, but she is big enough and old enough to resist, which she seems to have successfully done ... more
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Posted 05/08/2010
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Irish among deported children Michele Savage Irish Times 27th February 2010 Madam, Gordon Brown has apologised for the deportation by successive governments of more than 130,000 children to other countries from the 1920s to the 1960s, stating this happened mostly without parental knowledge and consent. ... more
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Posted 01/03/2010
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Andrew Bolts article on the apology and CLAN's response 18th December 2009 Andrew Bolt presented an article in th 18/12 Herald Sun outlining his opinion on the Federal Apology, read on to view CLANs response and CLAN member- Catherines response to Bolts article. ... more
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Posted 15/01/2010
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Nuns offer to victims Herald Sun 5th December 2009 A major Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, is offering to pay child abuse victims, the government and charities $210 million to compensate for decades of abuse. ... more
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Posted 09/12/2009
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Letter to the Editor: Ex-Salvo Officer jailed for child sex Leonie Sheedy The Australian 10th May 2009 A letter to the editor by CLAN President, Leonie Sheedy regarding the article about an ex-Salvo officer jailed in May for child molestation. ... more
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Posted 20/10/2009
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CLAN's Response to WA article "What Price of Childhood" Leonie Sheedy CLAN 24th August 2009 In response to the headline: "What price a childhood?" (August 15), it seems in WA it means that the abuse and neglect you suffered as a child in the so-called "care" of the government is negotiable. Until now, the WA redress scheme was viewed in care leaver 's networks as the best one in Australia. The WA redress scheme had the potential to truly give some level of justice, peace and healing to care leavers. However, sadly, it's now done the reverse, it's left people across Australia with a sense of distrust in government and liberal politicians. People feel totally betrayed once again. ... more
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Posted 27/08/2009
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Thanks for listening about CLAN T. Eyre Geelong Advertiser April 8 2009 I wish to thank the MP Richard Marles for his comments "Orphans wronged" (Geelong Adervtiser, September 6, 2008). ... more
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Posted 27/07/2009
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LETTER OF THE WEEK: Scars tell a sorry tale Name withheld The Sun Herald 19th July 2009 THANK you Kerry-Anne Walsh for your sensitive article "Saying sorry seems to be a mute point" (The Sun-Herald, July 12). ... more
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Posted 20/07/2009
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Abuse in Ireland's orphanages Letter to The Australian Cardinal Pell is naive to state that abuse didn't occur to the same degree in Australia as it did in Ireland. ... more
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Posted 25/05/2009
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In response to Marika Dobbin's article 15th April- "Ex-State wards seek millions" Leonie Sheedy The Age Victoria's response to this social injustice for the thousands of people who were in the care of successive state governments is inadequate to say the least. These children were used, abused and discarded by the state once they reached 14 or 15 and left to fend for themselves with no preparation for life. Why haven't these governments been charged with abuse and neglect? They were after all the legal guardians of these children in care. Good functioning families don't abandon their children once they reach working age. Tasmania, Queensland and WA have provided redress and services to start to repair the damage that was done. The Victorian ALP Government, which says it has a social justice agenda, expects us to relive our trauma through the legal system. Where's their compassion?
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Posted 15/04/2009
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Tots Used in Testing Frank Golding The Geelong Advertiser - Tuesday 26 August 2008 Congratulations on your remarkable but tragic story in today's Addy. I'd appreciate you passing this letter on to your letters editor. I admire Vlad's courage in facing up all these years later to the demons of his childhood. It's true what they say - a childhood lasts a lifetime. ... more
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Posted 26/08/2008
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WA Gives Redress to it's State Wards Leonie Sheedy, President, CLAN. The Australian, Tues 18 December 2007 Congratulations to the W.A.Government and Minister Sue Ellery for understanding that children who were raised in care deserve justice and redress to repair their shattered lives. It's not just about money, people need services to assist them to find their families, access to ward files, counselling to try to make sense of their lives and repair the neglect and truama. As the states children,we need priority access to housing , dental , educational services. ... more
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Posted 18/12/2007
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