Comments on: PARRAMATTA GIRLS HOME AS AN INTERNATIONAL SITE OF CONSCIENCE

By: Join the fun on Children’s Day | Western Sydney Frontier – arts activism in western Sydney

Sun, 09 Feb 2014 02:39:32 +0000

[…] including discovery, hearing, and learning, and designing a children’s garden. While the site has a grim history of punishment of women and children, organisers aim to transform it to one of […]

By: Katherine Knight

Katherine Knight — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:48:34 +0000

Gail – I’m so sorry. This is heartbreaking and just wrong. While the PFFP Memory Project can’t change that dreadful history, Bonney and her team are aiming to draw some value from it in healing, learning and inspiration for a cultural-creative hub and an internationally recognised Site of Conscience. A Children’s Day, March 9, is currently in preparation. http://www.pffpmemoryproject.org/events.php

By: Western Sydney Frontier – arts activism in western Sydney

Western Sydney Frontier – arts activism in western Sydney — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:36:48 +0000

[…] to Professional Historians Association Blog editor, here is the latest post about the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct: Memory Project and […]

By: gail hannaford

gail hannaford — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:36:39 +0000

My time in this cruel place for nothing more than being charged a neglected and exposed to moral danger (I ran away from home many times to escape the many beatings I received from my Father and stepmother. I will never forget this place as long as I live. The isolation block where I WAS LOCKED UP FOR 24 hours for using the word”BLOODY’ and fed bread and water and a mattress being taken into this concrete cell of a night
with nothing more than 1 flimsy blanket (in winter time”. I will never forget being smashed in the face with a key ring by Mr Crawford
‘To teach me a lesson”. I will never forget eating porridge for breakfast and having to pick the weavils
first. I will never forget scrubbing a concrete verandah with a toothbrush in the middle of winter and being wrapped over the fingers with a cane for not doing it to her liking(CAN STILL FEEL THAT PAIN) WE WERE KIDS IN THIS PLACE WHO NEEDED NUTURING
WHERE WERE POWERS TO BE WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON. THIS CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER.

By: phanswblogeditor

phanswblogeditor — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:27:10 +0000

Here are relevant links to this story.
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: https://www.facebook.com/CARoyalComm
2009 article about Bonney: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2009/11/16/bonney-djuric-parramatta-girls-home-and-the-forgotten-australians/
PFFP Memory project: https://www.facebook.com/PFFPMemoryProject?fref=ts%20
Riverside theatre: http://riversideparramatta.com.au/show/parramatta-girls/

By: phanswblogeditor

phanswblogeditor — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:09:06 +0000

Here’s the link to the 7.30 Report story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-31/survivors-visit-old-girls-home-to-confront-ghosts/5232032

By: Katherine Knight

Katherine Knight — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:30:41 +0000

Many thanks for this Francesca. A great deal of information is available through the Parragirls’ and related websites and through Facebook. Bonney’s personal account on ABC 7.30 tonight was very articulate and well supported by historic and current imagery.