| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16389 | AUS34 | ‘Gross dereliction’: abuse victim awarded record compensation | Paul Garvey, The Australian, Wednesday 10 September 2025 | Newspaper article detailing the largest damages payout in Western Australia since WA lifted a statute of limitations on civil claims for compensation for child sexual abuse. Dion Barber sued the state and WA’s Department of Communities. The court finding a ‘gross dereliction of duty’ on their behalf. | NA |
| 14356 | AUS1 | Australia’s Most Murderous Prison – Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail | James Phelps, An Ebury Press Book, Random House Australia, 2015 | A book on the murderers, terrorists, serial killers, gangsters and rapists in Goulburn prison. | NA |
| 14357 | AUS2 | No Charity There – A short history of social welfare in Australia | Brian Dickey, Allen & Unwin, 1987 | This book provides the first general history of social welfare in Australia. It traces the development of official and community attitudes to demands and expectation. | Randwick Asylum NSW & The Destitute Asylum, Adelaide South Australia |
| 14358 | AUS3 | Australian National Archives Canberra Online references | Australian National Archives | A list of homes in Australia, background and histories of homes. Contains state records, reports and inquiries. | Australian Homes |
| 14359 | AUS4 | Children’s Voices from the Past – New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove & Carla Pascoe Leahy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 | Australian, American, French, Canadian and New Zealand historical experiences of childhood. Chapter 13 titled 'Lost and Found: Counter-Narratives of Dis/Located Children written by Frank Golding & Jacqueline Z. Wilson. | Brookside Private Girls Reformatory in Ballarat Victoria, Ballarat Orphanage, Victoria |
| 14360 | AUS5 | Property Souvenir Australia – A Pictorial Review 1909-1921 | James Hay Commissioner, The Salvation Army | A pictorial review of The Salvation Army houses, cottages and properties around Australia. | Bethesda, Seaforth, Bexley, Bayswater, Box Hill Homes for Boys, Mothers' Hospitals, Aged Men and Women's Retreats |
| 14361 | AUS6 | Caring for Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and Stolen Generations | Australian Government, Department of Health, 2016 | An information package for aged care services includes case studies and appropriate and sensitive care with key considerations. | - |
| 14362 | AUS7 | Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee – Review of Government Compensation Payments | Senate Committee Report, Commonwealth of Australia, December 2010 | A Report into both state and international redress schemes, recommendations, other government compensation mechanisms and additional comments by the Australian Greens. | - |
| 14363 | AUS8 | On Earth As It Is In Heaven | Kristin Schneider, Trafford Publishing, 2004 | A fiction on growing up in Australia post WWII. | - |
| 14364 | AUS9 | Brother P.A Treacy & the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand | K.K. O'Donoghue, MA, The Polding Press, Melbourne 1983 | The book details the Christian Brothers successful adaption to Australia and New Zealand. In particular a constant theme throughout the book is the prudence, stability and sagacity that kept Brother Treacy at the helm for thirty-two years. | - |
| 14365 | AUS10 | Children’s Homes | Various authors | Archive searches, personal accounts, general information, newspaper clippings and images of Homes from around Australia. | Berry St Babies Home Vic, Brisbane Female Refuge, Burwood Boys' Home NSW, Catholic Children's Homes, Dunmore House Boys' Home, Fairbridge Farm, Kincumber Boys' Home NSW, Menzies Boys' Home, Melbourne Orphanage, Murray Vale Girls' Home, Parramatta Girls Home, Sunnylands Children's Home, Queen Alexandra Home, Queensland Girls' Home, Scarba Home, St Joseph's Babies Home, St Francis House & Sydney Legacy House |
| 14366 | AUS11 | A Piece of the Story – National Directory of Records of Catholic Organisations Caring for Children Separated from Families | Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission & Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, November 1999 | A book recording names, locations and details of every Catholic institution in each state of Australia. | - |
| 14367 | AUS12 | Not for Publication | Chris Masters, ABC Books for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2002 | Chris Masters draws on his assignments in Australia and overseas to tell some of the stories he couldn't tell on Four Corners. There is a chapter named 'The Children Who Smell' on page 164 that tells the story of a social worker's decision to report an incident that led to the removal of two children from their father's care. | - |
| 14368 | AUS13 | Surviving Care: Achieving justice and healing for the Forgotten Australians | Various authors, edited by Richard Hill & Elizabeth Branigan, Bond University Press, 2010 | A book discussing and proposing how to achieve justice for Forgotten Australians. | - |
| 14369 | AUS14 | AUS14 | |||
| 14370 | AUS15 | The Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia 2014-2015 | National Council of Priests of Australia Inc., 2014 | A text of the Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia. | - |
| 14371 | AUS16 | Salvo! The Salvation Army in the 1990s | John Cleary, Focus Books, 1993 | A unique look inside The Salvation Army in Australia in the 1990s. The book looks through the lives of Salvationists. | - |
| 14372 | AUS17 | You Can’t Forget Things Like That | Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs | A booklet on Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants an Oral History Project explores interviews by trained historians. Quotes are excerpted from interviews. | - |
| 14373 | AUS18 | No Stars to Wish On | Zana Fraillon, Allen & Unwin, 2014 | A work of fiction about the Australian experience of being a ward of the state. | - |
| 14374 | AUS19 | Insane: the stories of crazy salvos who changed the world | Nealson Munn & David Collinson, The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory, first in 2007 & 2020 | A book on the history of The Salvation Army's contributors. | - |
| 14375 | AUS20 | That elusive digger – tracing your Australian military ancestors | Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith, Unlock the Past, 2013 | A book providing an overview on how to trace your Australian military ancestor and is the first in a series. | - |
| 14376 | AUS21 | Recipes for Survival – Stories of Hope and Healing by Survivors of the State ‘Case’ System in Australia | Edited by Deidre Michell & Priscilla Taylor, People's Voice Publishing, 2011 | A series of stories & poems of survivors of an unimaginable childhood. | Ballarat Orphanage in Victoria, Orana Cottage in Plympton run by the Catholic Church in South Australia & Morialta Protestant Children's Home in South Australia |
| 14377 | AUS22 | The Salvation Army – Disposition of Forces 2006 | The Salvation Army | A private and confidential book that contains personal information of Salvation Army officers and employees from each Australian state. | - |
| 14378 | AUS23 | Institutionalised Childhood: The Orphanage Remembered | Shurlee Swain, Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, Vol 8, Number 1, published by John Hopkins University Press, 2015 | An essay on the care leavers' experience of children's homes around Australia. Largely, the essay concludes that the places function as a symbol for the shared experiences from which many care leavers derive their identity. They want those experiences to be remembered and memorialized, resisting attempts to erase the physical traces of institutions of the place, for these were indeed their homes. | Cootamundra Home NSW, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Home NSW, Parramatta Girls' Home NSW, Melbourne Orphanage Victoria, Goodwood Orphanage run by the Catholic Church South Australia, Kildonan Presbyterian Children's Home in Melbourne & more |
| 14379 | AUS24 | AUS24 | Mary Raftopoulos, La Trobe University, September 2022 | Summary of findings for a PHD on the impacts on of institutional 'care' on care leavers' children. | - |
| 14380 | AUS25 | Resources from around Australia | Various | A: - Barnardos Editorial Down Under - Dec 2006 - CD Stories from Burnside and newsletter - Book Review - Sex, power and the clergy, an orphan's escape - Catholic Agricultural School - Bindoon - Book cover - Memoirs of a Road Scholar - From the Lilly Pad - 2008 - Connect Issues No. 7 November 2007 - Where are the support services for the White Stolen Generation - poster B: - DHS - updating the guide to out of home care services 1940-2000 - Benchmarking of respondents to Care Leaver survey - Letter - Ombudsman Victoria's Review of the Freedom of Information Unit - Letter - Melbourne City Mission - Oct 2006 - Letter - Resurrection House - AGM - St Augustine's Old Boys - Letter - Archives of the Good Shepherd Sisters - Letter - David Sullivan and associates C: - Guide to Victorian Children's Registers - Presbyterian Synod of Victoria ACT 1859 - CLA Guide to accessing childhood case records - Natural child project resources for caring parents PQ: - University of Newcastle - Archives - Commission of inquiry - SA Children in State Care - Vanish news sheet - Dec 2007 - Australia Social Welfare History Workshop 2010 - Anglican Church of Australia Constitution Act 1960 | Bindoon Boys' Town in Western Australia & St Augustine's Highton in Victoria |
| 14381 | AUS26 | Australian Journal of Social Issues | Anna Yeatman & Joanna Penglase, Vol. 39, Issue 3, August 2004 | A chapter named 'Looking after Children: A Case Study of Individualised Service Delivery' found from pages 233-247. | - |
| 14382 | AUS27 | Why Are They In Children’s Homes – Report of the ACOSS Children’s Home intake Study | Dallas Hanson, Commonwealth of Australia, 1979 | A Report to develop an understanding of who the children in care are and why they are there. | Contains lists of Homes in each state/territory |
| 14383 | AUS28 | After the Silence – Media Reporting of child sexual abuse in the wake of the Royal Commission | University of Canberra, 2022 | This report provides research on the role of journalism and social media advocacy in triggering, reporting on, and keeping alive the recommendations of the ground-breaking Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017). X 2 copies. | - |
| 14384 | AUS29 | National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Information Paper | Australian Government, Department of Social Services, 2020 | An information paper on possible National Memorial due to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse recommendation for a National Memorial to be located in Canberra. | - |
| 14385 | AUS30 | The Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 | The Methodist Church of Australasia | Names of men who gave their lives of the Victorian and Tasmanian Conference. | - |
| 14386 | AUS31 | Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Murder, A Conspiracy of Silence and A Search for Justice | Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia, 2023 | A book by award winning journalist Christine Kenneally who writes on the dark and secret history of Catholic orphanages - the violence, abuse and even murder that took place within their walls. | St Augustine's Orphanage in Vic, Bayswater in Vic, Ballarat Orphanage in Vic, Nazareth House in Geraldton WA, Tardun in WA & Royleston Boys' Home in NSW |
| 14387 | AUS32 | My Father’s War | Sophie Masson, Scholastic, 2015 | Annie's dad has been away for two years, fighting on the Somme battlefields in northern France. For months there has been no word from him, no letters or postcards. Annie and her mother are sick with worry, so they decide to stop waiting and instead travelled to France, to find out what has happened to him. There she experiences first-hand what war is like, as she tries to piece together the clues behind her dad's disappearance. Will Annie ever see her father again? | Unclear |
| 14388 | AUS33 | Convent Slave Laundries? Magdelen Asylums in Australia | James Franklin, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 2013 | Expect this article to present the argument for and against whether the convent laundry system in Australia was convent slave laundries. | Sisters of the Good Shepherd - Abbotsford Convent Melbourne, the Home of the Good Shepherd Ashfield in Sydney, the Good Shepherd Convent Mitchelton in Brisbane, Mount Saint Canice Sandy Bay in Hobart, 'The Pines' North Plympton in Adelaide, the Home of the Good Shepherd Leederville in Perth, St Aidan's Bendigo in Victoria, Good Samaritans in Sydney and Manly, St Magdelen's in Tempe & St Joseph's Adelaide, SA |