Keywords: Forgotten Children
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 23 November 2009
5 Comments
A Wesley Mission survey
of 1200 adults found that being bullied as children caused 70 per cent
of them to suffer from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness
later in life. Federal Labor must explain what has become of its promise to appoint a
children's commissioner.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 20 November 2009
2 Comments
ABC1's The Long Journey Home is based on a book written by the best known alumnus of Fairbridge Farm, David Hill. After the heightened emotions surrounding Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Forgotten Australians, there is talk of forgiveness and compensation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P.S. Cottier
- 17 November 2009
2 Comments
They might not throw beer bottles and therefore shatter the tone of the area. Strip clubs might not reveal themselves to expose odd bumps hidden in the area.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 17 November 2009
16 Comments
The Prime Minister offered his apology to those who spent their childhood in care, via a carefully crafted speech. He said it is an 'ugly story' that must be told without fear or favour. Some who worked in or were associated with these children's homes may not like this judgement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 November 2009
9 Comments
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16 November 1989. Bangkok. We looked forward to hearing from Jon Sobrino, the El Salvador Jesuit theologian, who had been speaking at another meeting. But at breakfast we heard the dreadful news.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 10 November 2009
3 Comments
A sports hall in Berry, NSW, has won a coveted international architecture prize. This has a special significance for this month's Federal Government apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' who suffered abuse in institutional care.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jesse Shipway | Maria Takolander | Rodney Williams
- 20 October 2009
uneasy in its valley of ghosts .. this gold town lives on beyond bust .. graves cut steep and deep through stone .. some folk buried here standing up
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AUSTRALIA
- Tania Andrusiak
- 16 October 2009
5 Comments
Every year children aged six to 13 spend
around $328 billion of their own money, and influence another $2 trillion of parental spending.
Children
under eight are not equipped to understand an
advertiser's intent. They take ads as helpful, truthful information.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter
married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one
comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past
and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 15 September 2009
2 Comments
Men who stood before the gate .. trail the weight of empty hands, empty pockets .. Back to the shanties .. Where children are launching imagined craft .. Away from the stench of earth .. Into pools .. the colour of Keen's Mustard.
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INFORMATION
Ross Fitzgerald claims Catholic schools 'have become the instrument through which tax dollars are siphoned off public schools and given to the private sector'. His argument is a misrepresentation of the facts.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
36 Comments
Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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