Guest Post: “The colonial archive continues to have a disempowering impact on our people whose lives have been extensively documented and controlled for the purposes of surveillance and dispossession.”
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On Monday November 16, it will be 11 years since the National Apology to Forgotten Australians
Greg Baker and Cathy Humphreys explain the importance of records, and the work we do
Watch our webinar on achieving better records access for Care Leavers in archives.
A toolkit to achieve better records access for Care Leavers.
“My voice was snuffed out, the adults employed by the state to ensure my safety and wellbeing expressed their assumptions.” This is Sarah M.’s experience of accessing her records.
Archives are opening up again. If you plan on visiting, here are some things you should know.
People who grew up in care are actively prevented from finding out banal details about their lives that are often taken for granted.
For people who grew up in care, accessing records can be as devastating as it is important, but if the records are about you, you do have the right to annotate them
The Records Access Documentation Grants have made many more records available to people who were in care as children
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