Note: this blog closed in November 2011 and is not being updated
It includes personal reflections and it not intended to present the final verified or complete narrative of events.
Your story
If you are an Australian who experienced out-of-home care as a child, we would like to hear from you. You are welcome to leave a comment on any of the pages or posts here. Or perhaps you’d like to write a post, as a guest author.
Historical objects and photos
Things that have come to us from past times help us tell stories from that time.
We have collected historical objects and photos we might use in the exhibition. Do you have a photo that you could email to the Museum to help us tell your story?
Creative responses
People tell stories of their experiences in many ways. One way is through art. We want to collect as many as we can online.
Looking for Margaret Rule from Wagga Wagga, it was about 1962 when she left with her younger siblings.
looking for anyone from mt gibralter boys home bowral 1962 1964
bruce abberton i was at mt gibralter boys home bowral
from 1962 to 1968/69 can still remember the complete layout of the home
and the car reg…. of mr barclay
When I was in the Mt. Lawley receiving home in W.A I used to draw alot. I passed away the time sketching fashion designs. When the Perth Royal Show came around, staff at the home gathered my sketches and exhibited them in The Child Welfare stand at the show. I would REALLY like to know what happened to my sketches and how much money was donated to Child Welfare that year because of them.
Looking for girls and boys from Walcott St Receiving Home WA 1963-1965
Also any women who were in ‘Shepherds’ Leederville, 1963-1966