https://www.phansw.org.au/forgotten-australians-and-former-child-migrants-national-oral-history-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forgotten-australians-and-former-child-migrants-national-oral-history-project Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.phansw.org.au/forgotten-australians-and-former-child-migrants-national-oral-history-project/#comment-1850 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:37:29 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=721#comment-1850 Good point, Ron. There have been so many tragic incidents of children left with biological parents who were incapable or unwilling to care for them. I attended this seminar and found it fascinating especially the way in which clusters of interviews were conducted with family members of the person taken into care. It’s great to see a well funded project that can be ambitious in its aims.

]]> https://www.phansw.org.au/forgotten-australians-and-former-child-migrants-national-oral-history-project/#comment-1154 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:14:20 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=721#comment-1154 I wasn’t there, but i wonder if any work has been done on the positive outcomes for many children who went through care institutions? It’s a hard one to call in view of the dreadful wrongs inflicted on so many children, but the anti-institution move has also done great harm in fragmenting efforts to provide overall care. Social worker friends and acquaintances tell me of the damage done to children and young people being shunted between foster homes and motel rooms. In my view it’s another aspect of the state withdrawing from responsibilities and our rush to dismantle, rather than reform.

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