Hay Institution for Girls
Hay Institution for Girls
Hay
NSW/
Australia
Provider: NSW Government
Year Opened: 1961
Year Closed: 1974
The Hay Institution for Girls was opened in the old Hay Gaol in 1961. It was an annex of Parramatta Girls Training School, and held 12 girls aged 15 to 18 who had committed offences, including rioting to protest their treatment, while they were in Parramatta.
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CLAN library books where this Home is mentioned include:
ABC Stateline: Broken Girls (DVD): Reported by Sharon O’Neill, with interviews from Marlene Riley, Deborah Harris, Christine Riley, and Maureen McKernan
ABC Stateline: Eyes Down and Welcome to Hay (DVD): 9/3/2007
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Childhood abuse, abandonment, maternal rejection, scandalous treatment under the guise of care in notorious juvenile institutions and life on the streets of Kings Cross are just part of the extraordinary tapestry that is the life of Australian singer and entertainer, Sharyn Crystal. The Inconvenient Child is a gritty account of Sharyn’s life, beginning as an abandoned child of mixed race, and her struggle to survive in an often hostile white society, her journey to success as a singer and her remarkable quest to find her African-American father on the other side of the world.
