| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 13947 |
AB1 |
A Guide to Records of Indigenous Australians in the Lutheran Archives Adelaide, SA |
Archives Working Group of the Cultural Ministers Council, 1999 |
This guide provides a centralised, accurate register of the records of inhabitants of each mission and directions for accessing the full record of each case. The records held at Lutheran Archives relate to Aboriginal people that were living at the various Lutheran Missions and at other locations around Australia.
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Hermannsburg - Northern Territory, Hope Vale & Woorabinda - Queensland, Adelaide Aboriginal Lutheran Fellowship, Ceduna, Coober Pedy, Koonibba, Point Pearce, Port Augusta & Yalata - South Australia |
| 13948 |
AB2 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth Records- A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives ACT Regional Office |
Compiled by Ros Fraser, Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra, 1993 |
A guide to records mostly between 1901-1962 with some exceptions, which relates mainly to records from the Northern Territory.
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- |
| 13949 |
AB3 |
Aboriginal Perspectives on Criminal Justice |
Edited by Chris Cunneen, The Institute of Criminology Sydney University Law School, No 1, 1992 |
A collection of essays on the issue of criminal justice and Aboriginal people by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal writers.
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- |
| 13950 |
AB4 |
Broken Circles – Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 |
Anna Haebich, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000 |
Anna Haebich writes about how there was not one Stolen Generation, there were many. She provides a moving and comprehensive account of this dark Australian history spanning two hundred years of white occupation and intervention.
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- |
| 13951 |
AB5 |
Faces of Change |
Anne Deveson, Published jointly by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Fontana, 1984 |
A chapter titled ‘Coral' from page 90-117 recounts Coral's story of how she was removed from her family and placed in Cootamundra Home for Aboriginal Girls in the 1960s.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, NSW |
| 13952 |
AB6 |
If Everyone Cared – Autobiography of Margaret Tucker |
Edited by Lesley Zuber, Grosvenor Books, 1st Edition 1977 & New Edition 1983 |
The story of how Margaret Tucker/Lilardia was removed from her part-Aboriginal parents and sent to Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, NSW |
| 13953 |
AB7 |
It is no Secret – The story of a stolen child |
Donna Meehan, Random House Australia, 2000 |
At age five Donna Meehan was removed from her large and loving Aboriginal family at Coonamble NSW and sent to the only child of a white family in Newcastle. The book follows Donna's life and tracing her birth family.
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- |
| 13954 |
AB8 |
Little black bastard – a story of survival |
Noel Tovey, A Hodder Book, 2004 |
The amazing story of Noel Tovey's childhood being born in the slums of Carlton of Melbourne then abandoned at the age of six. His survival and courage to pursue his dreams of being an actor and dancer.
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Royal Far West Children's Home, Manly NSW |
| 13955 |
AB9 |
Long Time Coming Home |
Written and organised by Dianne Decker with consultation and permission of Marjorie Woodrow, 2001 |
The life story of Marjorie Woodrow who was separated from her mother at the age of two and did not see her mother for another 68 years.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, NSW & Parramatta Girls' Home, NSW |
| 13956 |
AB10 |
Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women’s Rights, 1919-1939 |
Fiona Paisley, Melbourne University Press, 2000 |
A book detailing how a high visible network of white women activists who vigorously promoted the rights of Australian Aboriginals during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Alice Springs Half Caste Home, NT |
| 13957 |
AB11 |
Many Lifetimes – A Memoir |
Audrey Evans, A Bantam Book, 2006 |
A memoir of Audrey Evans' life. Growing up in Queensland amid alcoholism, poverty and domestic violence, Audrey Evans was told she would never be as good as white people. But after a lifetime of struggle, she was determined to prove everyone wrong, and at the age of 55 she attended university for the first time. There she would not just get a piece of paper but would change her life. Many Lifetimes is Audrey's extraordinary true story and a powerful reminder that it's never too late to change your life.
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- |
| 13958 |
AB12 |
‘My heart is breaking’ – A Joint Guide to Records about Aboriginal People in the Public Office of Victoria and the Australian Archives, Victorian Regional Office |
Compiled by Ian McFarlane of the Public Record Office of Victoria & Myrna Deverall of the Australian Archives Victorian Regional Office, Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra, 1993 |
A guide to official records of Aboriginal Affairs in the government archives of Victoria. The records covered by the guide relate to Victoria's Aboriginal people until 1975 when the Commonwealth assumed the State's then responsibility for Aboriginal affairs.
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Mission Aboriginal Stations at Lake Tyers, Ebenezer, Lake Boga, Yelta, Ramahyuck, Coranderrk, Framlingham & Lake Condah |
| 13959 |
AB13 |
One of the Lost Generation |
Marjorie Woodrow, 1990 |
A booklet on the life of Marjorie Woodrow.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls & Parramatta Girls' Home, NSW |
| 13960 |
AB14 |
Quiet Snake Dreaming |
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow, Scrubfowl Press, 2007 |
Quiet Snake Dreaming is the true story of two women who reached across a cultural and social divide to become one family, and of children who never saw a gulf in the first place. It is also a tale of conservation, of a little boy and his dreaming animal, people rising above tragedy, and an unforgettable Christmas.
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Author's mother was in St Joseph's Orphanage in Largs Bay, South Australia |
| 13961 |
AB15 |
Rabbit Proof Fence |
Doris Pilkington known as her Aboriginal name as Nugi Garimara, University of Queensland Press, 1996 |
A true story made into a major film by Phillip Noyce of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600km walk home.
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- |
| 13962 |
AB16 |
Shadow Child – A Memoir of the Stolen Generation |
Rosalie Fraser, Hale & Iremonger, 1998 |
A memoir of Rosalie's removal from her parents, brothers and sisters and committed to the care of the Child Welfare Department. A two year-old Aboriginal child, subjected to abuse at the hands of her foster mother. The book traces her life after care and becoming a mother herself.
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- |
| 13963 |
AB17 |
Stolen |
Jane Harrison, Currency Press, 1998 |
The play ‘Stolen' tells the story of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs.
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- |
| 13964 |
AB18 |
The Australian Quarterly Essay – In Denial – The Stolen Generations and the Right |
Robert Manne, Schwartz Publishing, Issue 1, 2001 |
In the first Australian Quarterly Essay Robert Manne attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aboriginals had been taken from their parents. This essay is succinct history of how the Aboriginals were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, NSW |
| 13965 |
AB19 |
AB19 |
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| 13966 |
AB20 |
The Lost Children – Thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents |
Edited by Coral Edwards & Peter Reed, Doubleday, 1989 |
This resource is a powerful and disturbing oral history in which thirteen people describe their early memories of being removed from their parents, of institutions and foster families, tracing their families, reconciling and their struggle to recapture their Aboriginality.
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Bombaderry Home for Aboriginal children run by the United Aborigines Mission, Kinchela Home for Aboriginal Boys run by Aborigines Welfare Board, Bidura, Burnside Homes & more |
| 13967 |
AB21 |
The stolen children their stories – Including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families |
Edited Carmel Bird, Random House Australia, 1998 |
Stories and perspectives of the stolen generation, includes documents that appear in the Report from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home as well as reactions to the Report by political and community leaders.
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United Aborigines Mission in Oodnadatta South Australia, St Joseph's Home at Sebastopol Victoria, Beagle Bay Mission Victoria, Kinchela Aboriginal Boys' Home New South Wales, State Children's Orphanage at Townsville Queensland, Sister Kate's Home Western Australia, St Gabriel's Babies' Home Balwyn, Victoria & Gables Orphanage at Kew, Victoria |
| 13968 |
AB22 |
When you grow up |
Connie Nungulla McDonald with Jill Finnane, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation Broome, Western Australia, 1996 |
The life story of Connie McDonald and her early life in Forrest River Mission.
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Forrest River Mission run by the Anglican Church, Western Australia |
| 13969 |
AB23 |
Why Weren’t We Told? – A personal search for the truth about our history |
Henry Reynolds, Penguin Books Australia, 1999-2000 |
Henry Reynolds a professional historian explores how he and many Australian's grew up with a distorted and idealised version of the past.
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- |
| 13970 |
AB24 |
You Are What You Make Yourself To Be – The story of a Victorian Aboriginal Family 1842-1980 |
Phillip Pepper, Hyland House Publishing, 1980 |
The story of the Kurnai people of Gippsland in Victoria.
|
Ebenezer Mission, Ramahyuck Mission & Lake Tyers Mission |
| 13971 |
AB25 |
You Have The Power |
Archie Roach, Angus & Robertson, 1994 |
Collection of song lyrics by the successful Aboriginal songwriter. The songs, mostly from his two albums, 'Charcoal Lane' and 'Jamu Dreaming', focus on relationships, the spirit of the land, and the 'stolen generations' of Aboriginal children.
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- |
| 13972 |
AB26 |
Tripping over feathers: Scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Williams: A Narrative of the Stolen Generations |
Peter Read, UWA Publishing, 2009 |
The story of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams' life as a member of the stolen generation removed from her mother because of her fair skin.
|
Bombaderry Home & Lutunda Home, NSW |
| 13973 |
AB27 |
Back on the Block |
William Simon, Des Montgomerie & Jo Tuscano, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009 |
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys' Home for eight years.
|
Kinchela Aboriginal Boys' Home, NSW |
| 13974 |
AB28 |
Home Girls – Cootamundra Aboriginal Home girls tell their stories |
Peter Kabaila, Canprint Publishing Canberra, 2012 |
A book to mark the centenary of the Cootamundra Home. The book provides a lively written history to celebrate the survival and achievements of the Home Girls.
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Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, NSW |
| 13975 |
AB29 |
Wandering Girl |
Glenyse Ward, Magabala Books, 1988 |
The life story of Glenyse Ward, an Aboriginal girl placed into an orphanage when she was a baby. This is the true story of how a girl in Australia was taken from her parents and educated in a Catholic mission. In 1965, she was forced to become a domestic on a wealthy estate, where she woke before dawn every day and slaved for fifteen hours. She ate off a tin plate and slept on a shabby cot above a garage. All because of the color of her skin. This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen anymore. Here is the frightening yet victorious story of how it did and how that young woman who fought her way out.
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Wandering Mission, Perth WA |
| 13976 |
AB30 |
Karobran – The Story of an Aboriginal Girl |
Monica Clare, Alternative Publishing Cooperative, 1978 |
A fictionalised account on the author's experiences growing up as part Aboriginal in NSW. Karobran is considered the first published novel by an Australian Aboriginal woman.
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Yasmar Home, NSW & Halloween Children's Home, Redmyre Road Strathfield, NSW where she learned domestic service |
| 13977 |
AB31 |
Report upon the Operation of the Aborigines Act 1928 and the Regulations and Orders made thereunder & Aborigines Act 1928 |
Charles McLean, 1957 |
A Report of recommendations of the proposed amendments to the Aborigines Act 1928 in 1957. Attached is the Aborigines Act of 1928.
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Aboriginal Protection Board |
| 13978 |
AB32 |
Through Their Eyes – Glimpses of a Changing Australia |
Lucy Taylor, Brigalow Press, 2013 |
A book telling individuals' life stories from the past Century in Australia. One of the stories includes a member of the Stolen Generation.
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Church of England Hostel Charleville & Cherbourg Aboriginal Community |
| 13979 |
AB33 |
Laundry Stories |
Cissy Djagween & Mary Anne McKenzie as told to Margaret Hill, Spectrum Publications, 1999 |
A booklet on spreading the word of the Christian community in Broome, Western Australia through the stories of Cissy and Mary Anne.
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John of God Convent & Holy Child Orphanage at Broome, WA |
| 13980 |
AB34 |
A Terribly Wild Man |
Christine Halse, Allen & Unwin, 2002 |
An account of The Reverend Ernest Gribble's life and work who made a profound impact on Aboriginal Australians and on Australian race relations. Christine Halse's biography reveals the humanity of this complex, tragic figure - a man whose life echoes the tensions that haunt Australia's past.
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- |
| 13981 |
AB35 |
Saltwater Fella – An Inspiring True Story of Success against All Odds |
John Moriarty with Evan McHugh, Viking, 2000 |
John Moriarty recounts his story as an Aboriginal-Irish Australian growing up in mission homes after being taken from his mother and community.
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Mission Home at Mulgoa, NSW |
| 13982 |
AB36 |
Saints or Sinners – Based on a True Story |
B. Yond, Austin Macauley Publishers LLC, 2019 |
A biography and autobiography of seven children who endured the experience of being taken away from their home and placed in temporary care at St Pettington's Orphanage and foster homes.
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- |
| 13983 |
AB37 |
The Stolen Generations – The Removal of Aboriginal Children in NSW 1883 to 1969 |
Peter Read, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, 1981 |
Ground breaking paper is among the first attempts to document the devastation of forcibly removing Aboriginal children in Australia from their parents.
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Bomaderry Home, Kinchela Boys' Home, Cootamundra Girls' Home, Parramatta Girls' Home & Mt Penang |
| 13984 |
AB38 |
Last Truck Out |
Betty Lockyer, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 2009 |
From the Beagle Bay Mission to the pearling town of Broome after World War II, Betty Lockyer's childhood was influenced by culture, religion and strict government policy. Having an Aboriginal mother and an Asian father, she felt both the heart-wrenching effects of family forcibly removed from country and the protective authority of the Catholic nuns and brothers.
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Beagle Bay Mission in Victoria & Holy Child Orphanage, Broome in Western Australia |
| 13985 |
AB39 |
The Burnt Stick |
Anthony Hill, Illustrated by Mark Sofilas, Viking Penguin Books Australia, 1994 |
A mostly fictional story of a young Aboriginal boy, John Jagamarra, who was taken from his mother by the Welfare Department and sent to Pearl Bay Mission. A tale for everyone about the pain of separation and the strength of the human spirit.
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- |
| 13986 |
AB40 |
Link-Up |
Carol Kendall assisted by Peter Read |
An information booklet on Link-Up which is an Aboriginal organisation based in NSW. Link-Up (NSW) Aboriginal Corporation was founded in 1980 to assist all Aboriginal people who had been directly affected by past government policies; being separated from their families and culture through forced removal, being fostered, adopted or raised in institutions. Link-Up (NSW) supports the healing journeys of those removed; delivering professional, culturally sensitive and confidential research, reunions and Social, Emotional and Wellbeing services to those over the age of eighteen.
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- |
| 13987 |
AB41 |
Wilam naling…(knowing who you are) Improving Access to Records of the Stolen Generations – A Report to the Victorian Government from the Koorie Records Taskforce |
Department for Victorian Communities, May 2006 |
The Report contains the landscape as at 2006, key findings from consultations, recommendations and a chapter on making a better future.
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- |
| 13988 |
AB42 |
Always Was, Always Will Be Koori Children – Systemic inquiry into services provided to Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care in Victoria |
Commission for Children and Young People, Victorian Government, October 2016 |
Contains background information, legislative requirements, learning from Taskforce 1000, Inquiry findings, Opportunity to respond and appendices.
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- |
| 13989 |
AB43 |
In The Child’s Best Interests – Inquiry into compliance with the intent of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle in Victoria |
Commission for Children and Young People, 2015 |
The Inquiry contains an Executive Summary, recommendations, background, inquiry context, methodology, intent of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, policy and program compliance, defining practice compliance, assessing practice compliance, opportunity to respond, appendices and references.
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| 13990 |
AB44 |
Bringing them home – Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families |
Ronald Wilson, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, April 1997 |
The Inquiry contains tracing the history, consequences of removal, reparation, services for those affected, contemporary separations and appendices.
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- |
| 13991 |
AB45 |
Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence Sydney 1937 |
Anita Heiss, Scholastic Australia, 2001 |
Mary was taken to Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home when she was only five years old. Now she's ten years old and living with a white family in Sydney. She doesn't fit in and starts to question why.
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Cootamundra Girls' Home, Kinchela Boys' Home & Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home |
| ID |
Code |
Title |
Author |
Description |
Home(s) |
| 14004 |
CM1 |
CM1 |
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| 14005 |
CM2 |
A Chip off What Block? – A Child Migrant’s Tale |
Laurie Humphreys, 2007 |
The true account of Laurie Humphreys' early life coming to Australia as a child migrant from England in 1947. The book details his activities in political and union wings of the labour movement and his long service on the Cockburn Council.
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Nazareth House Orphanage at Southampton England & Boys' Town Bindoon run by the Christian Brothers Western Australia |
| 14006 |
CM3 |
a decent set of girls’ – The Irish Famine Orphans of the ‘Thomas Arbuthnot’ 1849-1850 |
Richard Reid & Cheryl Mongan, Yass Heritage Project, 1996 |
A collection of material about a transition made by 194 young Irish orphan girls from the famine environment of the south-west of Ireland in 1849 to new lives in New South Wales.
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- |
| 14007 |
CM4 |
CM4 |
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| 14008 |
CM5 |
Barnardos Down Under Newsletters from December 2003, June 2004, December 2004, June 2005, December 2005 |
Barnardos, Ultimo NSW, 2003-2005 |
Includes editorials, personal stories and Barnardos' run reunions for former Child Migrants.
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- |
| 14009 |
CM6 |
British Child Migrants in New South Wales Catholic Orphanages |
Marion Fox, History of Education Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1996 |
An essay on the British Child Migrants, their institutionalisation, the Catholic Church's responsibility for Child Migrants, their care and education of Child Migrants.
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Catholic Church based institutions St John's at Thurgoona, Murray-Dwyer at Mayfield, St Vincent's at Westmead, St Joseph's at Lane Cove, Monte Pio at Maitland, St Brigid's at Ryde, St Patrick's at Armidale, St Joseph's at Kenmore, St John's at South Goulburn, Mater Dei at Narellan, St John's at Cowper & St Anne's at Liverpool |
| 14010 |
CM7 |
Stolen Childhoods – The Story of the Child Migration Scheme |
Child Migrants Trust, 2011 |
A booklet describing the history of Child Migrants from Britain under the Child Migration Scheme.
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Bindoon Boys' Town run by the Christian Brothers, Western Australia |
| 14011 |
CM8 |
By Then I Was Thirteen |
Derrick (Taffy) Rees, Lexington Avenue, 1999 |
A passionate Welsh/Australian story of a Child Migrant from Wales.
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Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra Western Australia |
| 14012 |
CM9 |
Child Migrant Information |
Various |
A personal story of John Hennessy, a pamphlet on the Child Migrant Central Information Index London, Project Information Sheet and a submission to the Senate re Inquiry into Child Migration by Dr Stephen Constantine.
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Bindoon Boys' Town run by the Christian Brothers, Western Australia |
| 14013 |
CM10 |
CM10 |
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| 14014 |
CM11 |
CM11 |
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| 14015 |
CM12 |
C’mon Over – Voluntary Child Migrants from Tilbury to Sydney, 1921 to 1965 |
Ann Howard, Tarka Publishing, 2002 |
A book that draws on the original material from Child Migrants from being sent from Dr Barnardos Homes in the UK to Australia.
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Barnardos Homes, England, Mowbray Park Farm School in NSW, Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia |
| 14016 |
CM13 |
Empty Cradles |
Margaret Humphreys, Corgi Books, 1994 |
A book on both the lost children of Britain and a powerful testament to Margaret Humphreys' astonishing dedication, compassion and stubborn courage. Humphreys founded the Child Migrants Trust.
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Nazareth House in London, Bindoon Boys' Town run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia, Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia &St Joseph's in Clontarf Western Australia |
| 14017 |
CM14 |
CM14 |
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| 14018 |
CM15 |
Feathers of the Snow Angel – Memories of a Child in Exile |
Lionel Pearce, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002 |
Memories of Lionel Pierce at his time at Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia.
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Fairbridge Farm School, Western Australia |
| 14019 |
CM16 |
Five Stories – Remembering Childhood Removal from Homeland by Former British Child Migrants |
Editors Dr Carol Irizarry & Dr Effy Kleanthi, Australian Centre for Community Services Research, 2004 |
Five personal stories of former British Child Migrants include stories from Bridget Claire Boyd (nee Benfield), Margaret Attard (nee Allen), Maureen Byles (nee Deeley), Pat Carlson (nee Russell) and Sylvia Randall (nee Burke).
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Goodwood Orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy in South Australia |
| 14020 |
CM17 |
Flo – Child Migrant from Liverpool |
Flo Hickson & edited by Ann Bott, Plowright Press, 1998 |
Flo Hickson's account of being placed in Barardos at age five then two years later was sent to Australia's Fairbridge Farm School.
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Fairbridge Farm School, Western Australia |
| 14021 |
CM18 |
Geordie: Orphan of the Empire |
Lionel P. Welsh, P & B Press, 1988 |
The author was transported from a Catholic Orphanage in England as a British Child Migrant to Bindoon in Western Australia at eleven in 1947. The book describes life at Bindoon and his life afterwards spent in an alcoholic haze.
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Bindoon Boys' Town run by the Christian Brothers, Western Australia |
| 14022 |
CM19 |
Good British Stock – Child and Youth Migration to Australia |
Barry Coldrey, National Archives of Australia, 1999 |
A guide details the Australian immigration policy, Child Migration overview and timeline, guide to records and genealogical sources.
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Fairbridge Farm School Molong NSW, Barnardo's Homes, Tardun & more |
| 14023 |
CM20 |
Goodbye, Mummy Darling – The true story of a little girl sent to Australia under the Child Migration Scheme |
Susan Tickner, Moran Publications, 2003 |
The author Susan Tickner was born in Cheltenham, and at the age of three she was fostered out to several institutions in the UK. At age nine she was sent to Australia as a Child Migrant.
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Swan Homes, England |
| 14024 |
CM21 |
CM21 |
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| 14025 |
CM22 |
Lost Children of the Empire – The Untold Story of Britain’s Child Migrants |
Philip Bean & Joy Melville, Trade Division of Unwin Hyman, 1989 |
This book traces the transportation of British Child Migrants to the British Empire back to the year 1618, details personal stories of the experiences and abuse suffered by Child Migrants and chapter 9 focuses on Australia titled 'Australia: The Lost Souls'.
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Dr Barnard's Home in London, Fairbridge Farm School in Molong NSW, Goodwood Orphanage, Christian Brothers' institutions: Tardun, Bindoon & Clontarf |
| 14026 |
CM23 |
My Life |
Mary Keel |
The life story of Mary Keel who was placed into a Home after the Second World War and her journey from Great Britain at the age of seven to Australia as a British Child Migrant.
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Rockhampton Home & St Joseph's Home Neerkol, QLD |
| 14027 |
CM24 |
New Lives for Old – The Story of Britain’s Child Migrants |
Roger Kershaw & Janet Sacks, The National Archives, Kew, 2008 |
This book tells the story of the Child Migrant practice from the accounts of those involved and authentic records of the time. The book considers the role the different organisations played but most importantly the experiences of the children themselves.
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Fairbridge Farm Schools at Molong, NSW & Pinjarra, Western Australia |
| 14028 |
CM25 |
CM25 |
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| 14029 |
CM26 |
Orphans of the Empire – The Shocking Story of Child Migration to Australia |
Alan Gill, Random House Australia, 1998 |
A book that tells of the shocking yet compelling true story of the thousands of men and women who came to Australia as Child Migrants and so called 'orphans'. The book examines the politics of child migration at the government level and the denominational numbers game played by the churches.
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The Pines Home for Wayward Girls run by the Good Shepherd Sisters in South Australia, Nazareth House in Geraldton Western Australia, St Joseph's Orphanage in Subiaco Western Australia & more |
| 14030 |
CM27 |
Orphans of the Queen |
Ruth Starke, Lothian Books, 2004 |
Sunshine. Plenty of food. And nice uncles and aunties to look after you...' That's what Hilly and the other children in her English orphanage are promised when they are shipped to Australia to begin a new life. The reality turns out to be very different. Hilly and her little brother Egg are separated, and she finds herself in another orphanage where life is harsh and often cruel. When the first Royal Tour of Australia is announced, Hilly concocts a daring plan to meet Her Majesty and enlist her help in finding Egg. A work of fiction based on the real experiences of Child Migrants.
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- |
| 14031 |
CM28 |
Pebble on the Beach |
Tony Diamond, QueenSpark Publishers, 2006 |
Pebble on the Beach is a true story of one boy's ability to survive. Growing up in Brighton, England, Tony was subjected to a childhood of physical and mental and sexual abuse - including electric shock treatment at the age of ten - abandoned by his family at fifteen, and sent to Australia to fend for himself. Unable to settle, wandering from place to place, he plotted his return to England, but an ill-fated attempt to stow away led to imprisonment in New Zealand and his eventual deportation. Having visited four continents, survived four brushes with death and a journey of 30.000 miles, he arrived back in England profoundly changed - But were things at home any different?
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- |
| 14032 |
CM29 |
Riding on a Rainbow |
Ronald Slaney, Research Publications, 1997 |
A factual story of a group of children solicited from orphanages in the British Isles at a time when the Second World War was imminent.
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Northcote Village in Baccus Marsh Victoria |
| 14033 |
CM30 |
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Child Migration |
Barry M Coldrey |
Submission to Senate inquiry on the Child Migration Scheme.
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Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra at Western Australia, Dr Barnardo's Children's Homes NSW, St Augustine's Orphanage in Geelong Victoria, Boys' Town at Glenorchy Tasmania & Bindoon Farm School |
| 14034 |
CM31 |
CM31 |
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| 14035 |
CM32 |
CM32 |
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| 14036 |
CM33 |
The Dirty Bloody Jizzy: An Autobiography |
John R. Bicknell, 2003 |
An autobiography of the life of John R. Bicknell's whose life started as a British Child Migrant sent to Australia in 1949.
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Dr. Barnardos Homes, Mowbray Park in NSW |
| 14037 |
CM34 |
The Forgotten Children – Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia’s Child Migrants |
David Hill, Random House Australia, 2007 |
Children of the poor sent to Australia without love. David Hill amasses evidence of brutality and slavery to which they turned eyes blinded by their own righteousness. A compelling and moving account of how institutional cruelty was covered up by secrecy and wishful thinking.
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Fairbridge Farm School, NSW |
| 14038 |
CM35 |
The Life and Times of Tommy Hayden |
Tommy Hayden |
A self-published book on Tommy Hayden's institutionalisation in a Catholic orphanage at the age of two and his experience of being transported to Western Australia when he was eleven years of age.
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Tardun & Clontarf run by the Christian Brothers |
| 14039 |
CM36 |
CM36 |
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| 14040 |
CM37 |
The Long Way Home |
Jo Bailey & Ronnie Sabin, 2010 |
The inspiring and heart-warming story of a British Child Migrant who took fifty-five years to make it home.
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Fairbridge Farm School, Molong NSW |
| 14041 |
CM38 |
Three Suitcases and a Three-Year-Old |
Ann Mihkelson, Kangaroo Press, 1999 |
An optimistic account of how, out of tragedy, identity can be reclaimed. Ann Mihkelson's parent's fled their homeland of Estonia at the end of the Second World War. Ann visits her parents' homeland and relatives for the first time.
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- |
| 14042 |
CM39 |
Trust Me – A Heartrending Saga of Love and Betrayal |
Lesley Pearse, Penguin Group, 2001 |
A powerful historical novel based on a real life tragedy of two sisters transported to an Australian orphanage from England.
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Afterword mentions Bindoon, Tardun, Clontarf & Castledare Orphanages |
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CM40 |
The Bush Orphanage – Recollections of a British Child Migrant and the truth about Australia’s human trafficking past |
John Hawkins, JoJo Publishing, 2009 |
This book is divided into two parts. Part one describes the life journey of John Hawkins a child migrant and Part two is the story of child migration to Australia.
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Castledare & Tardun Boys' Orphanage |
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CM41 |
After Barnardo – Voluntary child migrants from Tilbury to Sydney, 1921 to 1965 |
Ann Howard & Eric Leonard, TARKA Publishing, 1999 |
A history of the British child migration scheme and Barnardos role with case studies of individual profiles of children raised in Barnardos Home and those who were fostered out.
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Barnardos Homes in Britain & Australia & Mowbray Park Farm School |
| 14045 |
CM42 |
The Boat to Boys Town |
Peter Allsopp & David Despard, |
The authors of this short booklet were on the second boatload of orphans sent to Australia by the British Government in 1952. They write about their memories of the journey and of their lives at Boys' Town.
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Boys' Town, Glenorchy Tasmania run by the Salesian Fathers |
| 14046 |
CM43 |
Oranges & Sunshine |
Margaret Humphreys, First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Doubleday as Empty Cradles an imprint of Transworld Publishers, Corgi edition reissued as Oranges and Sunshine, 2011 |
The social worker Margaret Humphreys from Nottingham investigates a woman's claim that she was sent to Australia by the British Government. Margaret discovers the Child Migration Scheme of 150,000 children deported to distant parts of the Empire.
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Bindoon Boys' Town Western Australia & Fairbridge Farm School in Molong NSW |
| 14047 |
CM44 |
The Foundling Museum |
The Foundling Museum |
A book detailing the history of the Foundling Hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children.
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The Foundling Hospital, London |
| 14048 |
CM45 |
Counting the Cost – Christian Brothers & Child Care in Australian Orphanages |
Bruce Blyth, P & B Press, 1999 |
Is an unabridged copy of VOICES' (a group of survivors) submission to the House of Commons Health Committee during its investigation into the welfare of former British Child Migrants.
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Boys' Town Bindoon, Contarf, Tardun, Castledare run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia & Neerkol Orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy, QLD |
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CM46 |
CM46 |
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CM47 |
Likely Lads & Lasses – Youth Migration to Australia 1911-1983 |
Alan Gill, BBM, 2005 |
A book by the author of Orphans of the Empire on the Dreadnought Scheme followed by the Big Brother Movement which operated on the basis of a settled, adult Australian taking on a guardian role for unaccompanied migrant youths.
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Karmsley Training School, Fairbridge Farm Schools at Molong & Pinjarra, NSW |
| 14051 |
CM48 |
Stolen Innocence – Memories of a Child Migrant |
Nigel Owen, 2018 |
This is a memoir of Nigel Owen (Powell)'s life as a Child Migrant and how he was sent to Australia at the age of five in 1955 with his siblings to a life of abuse and brutality. This book is a true story of his time during this horrific part of hidden British history.
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Northcote Farm School in Glenmore, Victoria |
| 14052 |
CM49 |
The Long Journey – A True Story |
Paddy Monaghan, 2015 |
This is the true story of Patrick Monaghan's life from deportation, when he was still a boy, from his home country to Australia as part of the notorious Child Migration Scheme and his overcoming of often brutal treatment in the farms and boys' Homes in Western Australia to begin a family and establish his own fishing business.
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Tardun Farm School & Clontarf, Western Australia |
| 14053 |
CM50 |
Child Migrants |
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Background and history of the child migrants sent from the British Isles to Fremantle, Western Australia as well as newspaper clippings.
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Boys' Town Bindoon, Western Australia |
| 14054 |
CM51 |
CM51 |
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CM52 |
Lost Innocents: Righting the Record – Report on child migration |
Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Commonwealth of Australia, August 2001 |
A Report on the Child Migration to Australia in 20th Century, Child Migrant experience, their search for their identity, responsibility & reparations, services required by Child Migrants, legal actions, limitation periods and recognition of Child Migrants.
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CM53 |
Child Migrant News Newsletter |
Child Migrants Trust, February, 2018 |
Child migrant newsletter re Inquiries, redress schemes and Commissions into child migrant schemes and institutional abuse in countries such as Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada etc.
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| 14057 |
CM54 |
Institutional experiences of female child migrants in Western Australia between 1947-1955 thesis |
Diane Parker, Edith Cowan University, July 2013 |
A thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education. The thesis is an investigation into the experiences of female child migrants who were sent to Australia under the British Child Migration Scheme.
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St Joseph's Catholic Orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy, Subiaco, Western Australia |
| 14058 |
CM55 |
Child Migrant News Newsletter 2 |
Child Migrants Trust, December 2010 |
Newsletter covering the British Governments' apology by Gordon Brown, reunions of Child Migrants with family members, reflections, photographs from the Australian National Apology in 2009 and a message from the President.
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| 14059 |
CM56 |
Social Issues Refugees and Migrant Issues – Special Issue |
Andrew Murray & Marilyn Rock, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 38. No. 2, May 2003 |
A commentary piece named 'Child Migration schemes to Australia: A dark and hidden chapter of Australia's history revealed' traces the history, advocacy, and government response to Australia's child migrants.
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Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra Western Australia & Tardun Farm School Western Australia |
| 14060 |
CM57 |
So I Hit Him – Surviving Life as an Institutionalised Alien |
Mick Wantham, Big Sky Publishing Pty Ltd, 2013 |
Memoir of Mick's life who lived in children's homes in England in the care of the Home Office and was physically and intellectually disabled. Mick was deported to Australia in 1970 aged 17 years.
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Foster care, children's homes in the UK & Big Brother Movement Home in Burwood NSW |
| 14061 |
CM58 |
Voicing Imperial Order, Identity, and Resistance: The Singing of British Child Migrants |
Susanne Quitmann, edited by Josephine Hoegaerts & Janice Schroeder, Walter de Gruyter, 2023 |
An essay found in the Ordinary Oralities. Quitmann explores the voices of British Child Migrants, in order to learn about their culture, their notions of home and belonging and what they cared about.
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Baranardo's Homes, Pinjarra Fairbridge Farm School, Northcote Farm School, Molong Farm School, Nazareth House |
