Photos

What's your view?

These photos might trigger a memory, or provoke a reaction.

Child Migrant Mike O'Donoghue at Clontarf Boys Town

Child labour site, Clontarf Boys Town

Kilmany Park Boys Home, Sale, Victoria

Dormitory bed-making at Good Shepherd Girls Home, Ashfield

Monopoly at Good Shepherd Girls Home, Ashfield

Music at Good Shepherd Girls Home, Ashfield

Entertainment at Goulburn Boys Home

Children at Burnside, New South Wales

St Vincent de Paul's Orphanage, Goodwood, Adelaide

St Brigid's Convent Orphanage, Ryde

Hard labour at Hay Institution for Girls

Let us know your response

We welcome your responses to these photos – email contact_us@forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au.

Or you can send us a copy of your photos. If you agree, your comments or photos might be used in the National Museum of Australia’s exhibition, which is in development now and will be opened in 2011.

Quotes

From Lost Innocents:

We were made to feel we were not human. We were not called by our names. We were numbered … Everything we wore was numbered.

(p74)

From Forgotten Australians:

After lights went out you would be quite often awakened by the younger boys crying for their parents … if the officer heard it … everyone had to stand at the end of their bed until the boy who had been crying was found. The officer then flogged the boy.

(p45)