Resources
Advocacy and support
Alliance for Forgotten Australians
Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN)
Forgotten Australians Action Group
Lotus Place and Historical Abuse Network, Queensland
Origins Harp (Forgotten Australians)
Origins Inc (Forced adoptions)
Government services
Aftercare Resource Centre - Queensland
National Museum of Australia
Stories, images, poetry, artworks, memories, sound and video shared by people who were placed in institutions as children
Download interviews and read transcripts of events associated with the Inside exhibition at the National Museum. Guests include Caroline Carroll, Bonney Djuric, Al Fletcher, Frank Golding, Christine Harms, Derek Moriarty, Joanna Penglase, Rachael Romero and Jack Thompson.
National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia oral histories
The National Library has recorded and digitised more than 100 interviews with Forgotten Australians and others associated with 'care' institutions
Trove search results
Newspaper reports documenting children's homes and orphanage mentions in digitised Australian newspapers before 1953
Senate Inquiry reports
Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians revisted 2009 (PDF 878kb)
Forgotten Australians report on children in institutional or out-of-home care 2004 (PDF 1.8mb)
Lost Innocents report on child migration 2001 (PDF 7mb)
Bringing Them Home ' Stolen Generation' report 1995 (PDF 18.4mb)
State inquiries
Mullighan Inquiry into Children in South Australians State Care and Children on Aboriginal Lands
State Library of Victoria national research guides
Family history for Aboriginal people
Further reading
Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2004
Philip Bean and Joy Melville, Lost Children of the Empire, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989
Judith Bessant, Richard Hil and Rob Watts (eds), Violations of Trust: How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People, Hampshire, Ashgate, 2005
Bruce Blyth, Counting the Cost: Christian Brothers and Child Abuse in Australian Orphanages, P & B Press, Como, Western Australia, 1999
Bruce Blyth, In the Shadow of the Cross: The Story of VOICES: How the Christian Brothers' Victims Fought for Justice, P & B Press, Como, Western Australia, 1997
Margaret Camilleri (edited by Margaret Jacobs and Robyn Hollander), Life Lines: Stories by Women in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne, Melbourne's Living Museum of the West, Williamstown, Victoria, about 1985
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration and the Western Australian Boys Homes, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1991
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration from Malta to Australia 1930s to 1960s, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1992
Barry M Coldrey, Francis Paul Keaney and Child Care in Western Australia, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1992
Barry M Coldrey, Brother Paul Keaney's Apprenticeship Scheme at Clontarf and Bindoon Boys Towns, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1993
Barry M Coldrey, Pocket Money, Wages, Exploitation and Slavery at Bindoon and Tardun Boys Homes, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1993
Barry M Coldrey, The Scheme: The Christian Brothers and Childcare in Western Australia, Argyle-Pacific Publishing, O'Connor, Western Australia, 1993
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration to Catholic Institutions in Australia: Objects, Policies, Realities, 1926-1966, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1995
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration: Consent of Parents to their Children's Emigration: the Legal and Moral Dimension, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, 1996
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration under the Management of the Australian and British Governments: National Archives of Australia files, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, about 1999
Barry M Coldrey, Youth Migration under organisations such as Dreadnought Trust, Big Brother Movements, YMCA, Young Australian League: National Archives of Australia files, BM Coldrey, Thornbury, Victoria, about 1999
Barry M Coldrey, Child migration under the management of Dr Barnardo's Homes, Fairbridge and the Lady Northcote Trust: National Archives of Australia files, BM Coldrey, Thornbury, Victoria, about 1999
Barry M Coldrey, Child Migration under organisations within the Catholic Church: National Archives of Australia files, Tamanaraik Press Publishing, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, about 1999
Barry M Coldrey, Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 1999
Frederick A Coppleman, Not of my Choice, Tasmanian Braille Writers Association, West Tamar, Tasmania, 1994
Douglas Coverdale, It All Turns Out For The Better: One Man's Story of his Time in an Australian Boys' Home 1928-1935, and his Life Thereafter, Action Research Issues Association, Melbourne, 1995
David Crisp, My Life as an Orphan, Athena Press, London, 2008
Kate Davies, When Innocence Trembles: A Survivor's Story, Kapak Publishing, Norfolk Island, 2004
Tony Diamond, Pebble on the Beach, Queenspark Publishers, Brighton, 2006
Bonny Djuric, 14 Years of Hell: An Anthology of the Hay Girls Institution 1961-1974, Women about Hay, Hay, New South Wales, 2008
Bonny Djuric, Abandon All Hope: A History of Parramatta Girls Industrial School, Chargan My Book Publisher, Perth, 2011
Win Evans, A Rejected Childhood, Win Evans and Parker Pattinson Publishing, Sydney, 2001
Merlene Fawdry, The Little Mongrel: Free to a Good Home, M Fawdry, Launceston, Tasmania, 2006
Maureen Flanagan, Along the Way, Lexington Ave Press, Copacabana, 2003
Lily Fontaine, The Other Side: The Untold True Story, Hendon, Queensland, 2011
Alan Gill, Orphans of the Empire: The Shocking Story of Child Migration to Australia, Random House Australia, Milson's Point, 1998
Bob Golding, Behind and Beyond the Brick Walls, Open Place, Maldon, 2011
Frank Golding, An Orphan's Escape: Memories of a Lost Childhood, Lothian Books, South Melbourne, 2005
Ivy Gretchell, The Pea Picker's Daughter, Zeus Publications, Burleigh, 2009
Vicki Griffin, Like Mother, Like Daughter: The Story of Australia's Youngest Grandmother, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990
Kaye Healey, Children in Care, The Spinney Press, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, 1993
Flo Hickson, Flo: Child Migrant from Liverpool, Plowright Press, Warwick, United Kingdom, 1998
Richard Hil and Elizabeth Branigan (eds), Surviving Care: Achieving Justice and Healing for the Forgotten Australians, Bond University Press, Robina, 2010
David Hill, The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Australia's Child Migrants, Random House Australia, North Sydney, 2007
Robert Hirst, One Man's Story: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse: An Autobiography, Robert Hirst, Victor Harbour, South Australia, 2008
Ann Howard and Eric Leonard, After Barnardo: The Phenomenon of Child Migration from Tilbury to Sydney from 1921-1965, Tarka Publishing, Danger Island, New South Wales, 1999
Laurie Humphreys, A Chip Off What Block?: A Child Migrant's Tale, Laurie Humphreys, Samson, Western Australia, 2007
Margaret Humphreys, Empty Cradles, Doubleday, Sydney, 2004
Roger Kershaw and Janet Sacks, New Lives For Old: The Story of Britain's Child Migrants, National Archives, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom, 2008
Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis, The Inconvenient Child: An Abandoned Australian Child Struggles to Survive and find her American Father, Miracle Publishing, Sydney, 2010
Howard C Jones, Orphanage Survivors: A True Story of St John's Thurgoona, Howard Campbell Jones, 2010
Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint, Boolarong Press, Salisbury, Queensland, 2008
Ivor A Knight, Out of Darkness: Growing up with the Christian Brothers, Fremantle Arts Press, South Fremantle, 1998
George Lee and Jennie Thomas, Going Dingo, Zeus Publications, Burleigh, Queensland, about 2006
Betty (Elizabeth) Lockyer, Last Truck Out, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, Broome, 2009
James Marsh, Deadly Charades, Zeus Publications, Burleigh, Queensland, 2009
Suellen May Murray, John Murphy, Elizabeth Branigan and Jenny Malone, After the Orphanage: Life Beyond the Children's Home, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, 2009
K Meekins, Red Tape Rape, K Meekins, Adelaide, 2008
Paul Noble, Noble Spirit, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2006
Margo O'Byrne, Left Unsaid, South Beach Publications, Fremantle, 2009
Michael P O'Rouke and Dora Whitley, In the Care of the Christian Brothers in Western Australia; I Was Just A Number: The Story of Michael O'Rourke at Castledare and Clontarf, Western Australia, in the 1950s, MP O'Rourke, Perth, 1989
Narelle O'Rourke/Kaczmarowski, Mercia: A Song of Love, Lulu Enterprises, 2010
Lionel Pearce, Feathers of the Snow Angel: Memories of a Child in Exile, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2002
Joanna Penglase, Orphans of the Living. Growing up in 'Care' in Twentieth Century Australia, Fremantle Press, Fremantle, 2007
John Ramsland, Children of the Back Lanes, University of New South Wales Press, Kensington, 1986
Peter Read, Tripping Over Feathers: Scenes in the Life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams, University of Western Australia Press, 2009
Ronnie Sabin and Rod Maxwell, English Hell to Aussie Heaven, RR Enterprises, Christchurch, 2006
P Scottney-Turbill, Morialta: Fire in the Mist, P Scottney-Turbill, Stirling, South Australia, 1994
Kate Shayler, The Long Way Home: The Story of a Homes Kid, Random House Australia, New South Wales, 2001
Kate Shayler, A Tuesday Thing: The Passionate Sequel to The Long Way Home, Random House Australia, New South Wales, 2004
Geoffrey Sherington and Chris Jeffery, Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration, Woburn Press education series, London, 1998
Jan Simmonds and Anne Gollan, For Simmo, Cassell Australia, Stanmore, New South Wales, 1980
Ryszard Szablicki, Orphanage Boy: Through the Eyes of Innocence, New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, 2007
Charlie Walker, Charlie the Ratbag Orphan: An Orphan Survivor in Australia: Autobiography, The Flea Company, Heidelberg West 2010
L P Welsh, Geordi: Orphan of the Empire, P & B Press, Como, Western Australia, 1990
L P Welsh (edited by Bruce Blyth), The Bindoon File, P & B Press, Como, Western Australia, 1990
Garnett B Williams, Nightmare at Neerkol, Williams, Garnett Bruce, Southtown, Queensland, 2004
Fred Wingrave and Alice Jansen, Burnside from the Inside 1916-1926, Genial Enterprises, Emu Plains, New South Wales, 2002
Fred Wingrave and Alice Jansen, Outside Burnside, Genial Enterprises, Emu Plains, New South Wales, 2003