The first Catholic orphanages in Australia have been added to the site
Photographs play an important role on Find & Connect, from providing a tangible image of childhood to stimulating memories.
Children of displaced persons arrived in Australia with a least one parent, but many were placed in orphanages. We’re looking into this piece of Australian history.
We’ve added new information about St Vincent de Paul orphanages in Victoria, including 3 new pages.
We’re expanding our information about children who went from Bonegilla Migrant Camp to the welfare system.
The history of child welfare in Australia is missing its most important voices without those who were in care.
As 2021 comes to a close, we share some of our achievements, and some of our plans for the new year
LONG READ: Our submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
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On Monday 18 July 2016, the University of Melbourne hosted a workshop related to ‘Routes to the Past’, a project exploring possibilities for new collaborative approaches to working with Care Leavers, supporting them through the processes of accessing records, discovering their family history and coming to terms with a past in institutional ‘care’.
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