• From State Care to Independence: A comparison of the Australian and USA leaving care debates

• Moving out from the State Parental Home: A Comparison of Leaving Care policies in Victoria and new South Wales

• Supplementary submission dated 15.12.03

• Supplementary submission received 15.12.03

• Supplementary submission received 20.1.04

• Additional information received 17.6.04

• 11.5.03: ‘Catholic Orphanages in the 1950s and 1960s: An oral history, Neil McIntosh, Monash Uni, June 1985

• 19.5.03: St Augustine’s [Geelong] and the Christian Brothers, An archival history by Peter Chapman, May 1993

• 7.7.03: ‘The special dimension of horror’: ‘Corporal punishment, severity, criminal assualt and sexualised violence in traditional residential care’, Barry M Coldrey, July 2003

• 24.8.03: 'The State of Celibacy Practice in the Catholic Church'

• 1.10.03: Papers: ‘Institutional processes for dealing with allegations of child sexual abuse’, Dr Tom Altobelli, UWS, May 2003; ‘Apocalypse now’: The English speaking church and the sexual abuse crisis at the commencement of the third millenium, B M Coldrey, Independent Papers 3

• 2.11.03: Information on St Joseph’s industrial school, ‘Letterfrack’, Ireland

• 7.11.03: Preliminary comments and issues to be discussed at hearing on 12.11.03

• 28.11.03: Further information on ‘Letterfrack’ and Ireland

• Additional information received 24.9.04

• Additional information received 8.6.04; 9.6.04; 27.6.04; 1.7.04 and 26.7.04

• Supplementary submission following hearing 12.11.03

• Additional information received 22.6.04

• Supplementary submission received 19.2.04

• Additional information received 5.12.03 and 11.6.04

• Copy of Children and Community Development Bill 2003 provided at public hearing 9.12.03

• Response to questions following hearing 9.12.03 dated 13.4.04

• Additional information received 22.6.04

• Additional information received 13.8.04

• Additional information received 4.3.05

• Addition information received 14.8.03; 20.10.03; 24.10.03; 24.11.03; 28.1.04; 3.2.04; 21.10.04

• Additional information received 3.6.04

• Additional information dated 1.7.04

• ‘Orphans of the Living’: The Home Children NSW 1939-1965, Ph.D thesis, Macquarie University, 1999

• Article:Victimization, Care and Justice: Reflections on the Experiences of Victims/Survivors Involved in Large-scale Historical Investigations of Child Sexual Abuse in Residential Institutions, British Joural of Social Work (2002) 32, 541-551

• Additional information received 2.6.04

• Information sheets provided a hearing 4.2.04

• Be.ing our best: Report on Australia's children and young people in care, August 2004

• Do No Harm: Towards Good Practice in Protecting Children and Young People in out of Home care from Abuse and Neglect, May 2004

• Supplementary submission provided at public hearing 12.11.03

• Additional information received 5.11.03; 5.3.04 and 28.1.05

• Additional information provided at hearing 12.3.04

• Additional information consisting of articles on the longterm effect of childhood abuse, received 10.6.04 and 11.6.04

• Supplementary submission dated 29.1.04

• Copy of Queensland Health – Policy Statement and Guidelines on the treatment and Management of Abuse and Neglect of Children and Young People (0-18 years)

• Conclusion and copy of overheads from presentation at hearing 12.3.04

• Paper on history of Goodwood dated 18.7.04

• Additional information received 25.7.03; 8.8.03 and 14.8.03

• Additional information received 11.3.04

• Additional information received 14.12.04

• Additional information dated 25.10.03; 13.1.04 and 15.6.04

• Additional information and copy of opening statement provided at hearing 4.2.04

• Copy of Victorian Department of Human Services, Child Protection Outcomes Project Team – Child Protection Outcomes – Draft Interim Report February 2003

• Copy of Victorian Department of Community Services – Case Planning and Management Strategy Evalualtion Report, April 27 1999

• Supplementary submission received 3.11.04

• Supplementary submission dated 12.3.04

• Response to Committee's report Forgotten Australians, dated 1.10.04

• Additional information 3.3.04, 30.3.04 and 18.6.04

• Additional information received 30.11.04

• Supplementary submission 5.12.03

• Supporting documents dated 8.12.03

• Additional information dated 12.1.04

• Further submission 25.1.05

• Additional information received 10.6.04 and 5.7.04

• Additional information received 9.10.03; 19.11.03; 24.11.03; 27.11.03; 28.11.03; 1.12.03; 5.12.03; 15.12.03; 27.1.04, 26.2.04; 16.3.04; 17.3.04; 18.3.04, 7.4.04; 27.4.04; 6.5.04, 7.5.04

• Additional information following public hearing 9.12.03 dated 19.12.03

• Additional information received 29.6.04; 1.7.04; 28.7.04 and 5.8.04

• Extract on Parkerville Children’s Home provided at public hearing 8.12.03

• Additional information dated 17.11.03

• Addition information dated 12.10.03

• Notes for presentation provided at public hearing 13.11.03

• Additional information dated 21.4.04

• Additional information dated 13.12.04

• Supplementary submission received at hearing 12.3.04

• Supplementary submission received 5.3.04

• Additional information received 14.10.04

• Additional information received 9.12.03

• Additional information received 9.2.04 and 1.4.04

• Additional information received 9.5.03; 15.8.03; 21.11.03

• Additional information dated 5.12.03

• Additional information received 29.1.04 and 9.2.04

• The Long Way Home – The Story of a Homes Kid, Kate Shayler, 1999 (received 23.3.03)

• Additional information received 23.8.04

• Video – interview on ABC Stateline on 1.7.04

• Additional information received 2.2.04; 29.2.04; 23.6.04 and 26.1.05

• Additional information received 30.1.04

• Supplementary submission received 30.7.04

• Additional information received 17.8.04

• Additional information received 10.5.04, 13.8.04, 15.8.04, 20.1.05

• Additional information dated 9.8.04

• Additional information provided at hearing 3.2.04

• Supplementary submission received 2.3.04

• Supplementary submission, received 11.11.04

• Additional information dated 26.3.04 and 9.6.04

• Additional information received 11.8.04

• Supplementary submission received 10.2.05 and 17.2.05

• Bibliography and State Archival Resources provided at hearing 12.3.04

• Additional information received 26.5.04

• Additional information dated 5.8.04

• Additional information received 4.6.04

• Additional information received 21.2.04

• Additional information received 8.11.04

•      Additional information received 8.12.04

• Additional information received 6.12.04

• Additional information received 6.12.04, 20.12.04

• Additional information received 3.12.04

Altobelli, Dr Tom
Comments on Towards Healing protocol received 4.6.04

Anglican Church of Australia
Information on complaints handling received 6.5.04

Anglican Diocese of Tasmania
Information on pastoral support and assistance scheme received 28.6.04

Bacon, Mr Jim MHA, Premier of Tasmania
Correspondence relating to the Tasmanian Government’s review into the abuse of children in care dated 11.11.03

Bayman, Mr Peter
Information received following the Perth hearing 8.12.03

Beyondblue – the national depression initiative
Information on Maturityblues program

Brough, Mr Mal MP, Federal Member for Longman
Copy of letter to Crime and Misconduct Commission Qld dated 15.12.03

Cashmore, Dr Judy and Dr Frank Ainsworth
Audit of Australian Out-of-Home Care Research, for CAFWAA and ACWA, October 2004

Cunningham, Ms Heather
Information on charitable institutions, dated 20.2.05

Department of Family and Community Services
Information on early intervention and out of home care, dated 4.1.05
Information relating to the 'Every Child is Important' campaign, dated 23.2.05

Department of Veterans' Affairs
Response to questions concerning the Commonwealth running orphanages for the orphans of deceased members of the Australian Defence Forces dated 13 July 2004

Esther Centre, Qld
General information on Centre received at Brisbane hearing 12.3.04

Gandolfo, Ms Geraldine
Background and synopsis to documentary film Unholy Orders

Historical Abuse Network
Copy of presentation at Brisbane hearing 12.3.04

Marlee Family Centre
Copy of Victoria's Children received 25.10.04

Marlow, Mr Joseph
One Hundred Brothers, Joseph Marlow, 2004

Peake, Mr Andrew G
Records relating to Institutional Care in South Australia

Quinn, Mr Peter
Summary of evidence at hearing 3.2.04 and unpublished article on NSW juvenile correction system

South Australian Department for Familes and Communities
Information relating to Screening and Criminal History Check policy dated 1.1.05

Sydney Legacy
Information on Legacy children received 23.9.04
Historical Detail of Legacy Melbourne Hostels received 10.1.05

Tasmanian Department of Justice
Statistics on Tasmanian redress scheme received 30.6.04

Uniting Church New South Wales
Draft policy on complaints handling received 5.7.04

Woodrow, Ms Marjorie
Long Time Coming Home, Marjorie Woodrow, 2001 and information on stolen generation and recovering wages through access to Aboriginal Trust Funds, 2.9.03

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Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN) (NSW)

Submission dated 8 August 2003

Additional information received (em means received by Email):

21.3.03 em – Article on the Sisters of Nazareth from The Guardian 10.4.03

28.4.03 em - Extract from letter by ex-pupil of the Masonic School Baulkham Hills

‘Reform or Repression? Industrial and Reformatory Schools for Girls in New South Wales, 1866 to 1910’, Noeline Williamson, unpublished thesis, November 1979

1.6.03 – The Unbroken Spirit Margaret Shields; extract Like Mother, Like Daughter Vicki Griffin; articles The Hidden Parent Jolowicz AR et al and We ask for bread and are given stone: The Girls Industrial School, Parramatta, 1941-1961 Quinn P; brochures on aftercare services; and assorted news clippings and articles

20.6.03 - Owen's story; Newspaper articles and and other CLAN member stories

27.6.03 em - Adrian Thatcher’s story

7.7.03 - Personal stories which have appeared in CLAN newsletters

10.7.03 – Ron and Nancy Casey’s story

14.7.03 - Submissions from Carolann Higley and Wayne Findlay – CLAN members

11.7.03 - Copies of letters to CLAN from 103 people telling their stories

11.8.03 em – Notes from phone responses to newspaper ad

13.8.03 em – Info on Camp Pell, Vic

14.8.03 – Personal stories from Michael Hughes and Des Donley; newspaper articles; and info on aftercare services

5.9.03 – Copy of submission to NSW inquiry from Venetta (O’Hehir) Lohse (see also sub 187) and newspaper reports and channel 9 video of the O’Hehir sisters

2.10.03 – Copy of NSW Legislative Assembly 1904 Report on Roman Catholic Orphanage Manly, and news items

5.11.03 – CLAN Newsletter No.17, October 2003

27.11.03 em – Speech by Dr Penglase at opening of Child Protection Unit, Sydney Children's Hospital, 19.11.03

22.12.03 em – Extract from a Board minute from the Perth Children’s Hospital May 1932 concerning tonsillectomies performed on Parkerville Home children

11.1.04 em –Paper by Rosemary Kerr ‘Potential inefficients at best, criminal at worst’: The girl problem and juvenile delinquency in Western Australia 1907-1933 and article 'Silky Oaks:another Neerkol?'

16.1.04 – Copy of correspondence to Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission dated 12.1.04, 30.1.04 and response from HREOC dated 22.1.04

21.1.04 em – Photographs – Parramatta Girls Home and Wesley Dalmar Home;
Article: Limitation periods and child sexual abuse cases: law psychology, time and justice by Dr Ben Mathews (see also sub 300)

28.1.04 – Background material and historical information on Burnside, Dalmar, Dalwood, Winlaton, Albury Homes, Parramatta Homes, St Vincent's Westmead and Melbourne Orphange Asylum

2.2.04 em – Fred Seer’s story

2.2.04 em - Background information relating to Aboriginal Children's Home Singleton, Randwick Asylum for Destitute People and Ormond House

4.2.04 –List of books/reports found in the State Library of Victoria; Letter relating to access to personal records; Advertisments of people in search of relatives; KRT article – Trauma victims ‘need different treatment for depression than others’

4.2.04 – CLAN website development 2004 (provided at Sydney hearing 4.2.04)

12.2.04 em – Maggie's personal story

20.2.04 em – Robert's personal story

22.2.04 em – Tina Rickard personal story

23.2.04 em – Debra Harris personal story

23.2.04 - Historical information and newspaper articles relating to orphanages in:

Goulburn; Winlaton; Geelong - St Augustine's, Ryrie Street Orphanage, Bethany Babies' Home and Geelong Protestant Orphan Asylum; St Catherine's Orphanage and Dalwood Home.

Copy of correspondence relating to a complaint about the care received while living in an orphanage and foster care managed by the Catholic Church

Copy of Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940

Extract from Social Evils The Army Has Challenged by S. Carvosso Gauntlett

Copy of the list of papers by J H Litten held in National Library of Australia

2.3.04 em – Personal story 'Scars that never heal'

3.3.04 em – Personal story Jim - 'Nobody's Child'

3.3.04 & 16.3.04 em – Glastonbury Orphanage, Article in Geelong Advertiser; and letters to the editor - Robert Moore and Mavis Kosseck and comments by Dr J Penglase

6.3.04 – Spech by Senator Murray at opening of CLAN office, 6 March 2004

12.3.04 – Qld institutions: historical info and photos; Anderson Dawson; State Library of NSW holdings; Bidura, Glebe; St Josephs and St Johns, Goulburn; Children's homes in the Blue Mountains (provided at Brisbane hearing)

22.3.04 em – Info on Dr Dill Macky Homes; Info on Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum; Photo of football team from St John's Orphanage; Personal story from Carol

24.3.04 – Historical information relating to various Sydney orphanages, including Dill Macky, SA Arncliffe, Bexley, Dee Why, Ardill House, St Anne's, Dalwood

1.4.04 – CLAN correspondence with Qld government and DOCS re records; and info and 1963-64 annual reports from St Catherine's Childrens Home Geelong

2.4.04 em – Sisters of Nazareth and Nazareth Houses

6.4.04 – CLAN Newsletter No.20, March 2004

9.4.04 em – List of Institutions and Homes in which CLAN members grew up

14.4.04 – Information and articles on orphanages, including Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children, Melbourne Orphanage Asylum, Orphanage Education; Cervini E Alice Henry investigates (Brookside, Vic 1899); Origin and Identity, Report on the provision of search services for people separated by adoption and other circumstances (NSW 1996); correspondence relating to services and records; copies of MacKillop News; press clippings; State Library of NSW holdings

16.4.04 em – Personal stories – anonymous and seeking information on Burnside; accessing DOCS records

16.4.04 em – Armidale/New England Orphanages

28.4.04 – For Their Own Good, A history of the Children's Court and Boys' Shelter at Albion St, Surry Hills, C Ludlow; Set Free, Jan Jones; Our Boys, St Vincents – Westmead; State Wards and Children in Care Support Services; extract from 1962 NSW Parl Debates re Hay; info on institutions including Ormond, Havilah House, St Vincents westmead, Homes in Newcastle and Geelong districts; press articles

4.5.04 em – Access to family information (2)

7.5.04 & 10.5.05 em Photos of Homes in Qld and SA

9.5.04 em – Apology by Irish Sisters of Mercy

10.5.04 em – Children in institutional care and Hay – corres with Channel 9;

11.5.04 em – ADHD and behavioural problems relating to children in care; Photos of homes in SA

12.5.04 em – Photo Victoria Street Orphanage Ballarat

13.5.04 em – Photos and info on Good Samaritan Homes in NSW

14.5.04 em – Info held at Dept of Human Services Library, Vic

16.5.04 em – Info on Burwood Children's Home, NSW; Clarendon Children and Family Services, Tas; Article on St Agnes, Glenroy; extract from diary James Goold February 1866; ABC PM story 3.2.04

17.5.04 – Info and background history on Various Homes: St Aidan's, Bendigo; Ballarat Homes; Methodist Home, Cheltenham; Yarra Bay House; Brougham; Ashfield Infants Home; St Brigid's, Ryde and St Michael's, Baulkham Hills, Armidale; Parramatta; Melbourne Orphanage, Brighton; The Graduate of Nudgee Orphanage Fred Newton, Bruce MacGregor; St Vincent's Westmead AR 1968; Towards Healing; personal stories in letters

20.5.04 em – Records available from the State Library of SA relating to SA orphanages

20.5.04 em – Photos of Dalmar, NSW

23.5.04 em – Photos of Dalwood, NSW

24.5.04 em – Vietnam Veterans' Counselling Service: sessions for veterans' children

3.6.04 em – Provision of legal advice by WA Dept; SA parliamentary debate and media articles

8.6.04 em – South Australian orphanage records: State holdings

9.6.04 & 19.6.04 em – Project to improve support and information for children in care who have parents living with a dual diagnosis (NIDS MISA Project)

11.6.04 em – State care of children in Tasmania and Mercury articles

13.6.04 em – Article: The Limits of Talk Mary Sykes Wylie, Psychotherapy Networker 2003, Issue No.13; various media articles

19.6.04 em – South Australian gov support for State wards

20.6.04 – Background and history of Homes:Church of England Homes in NSW; Mittagong Homes; Historic Hopewood; Menzies, Vic; Goodwood oral histories; Improving outcomes for young people leaving care in Victoria, Sue Green and Amanda Jones, 1999; Your guide for kids in care, YACS, 1984; The Wards Project Draft Implementation Plan, DoCS and DJJ, March 1999; extracts from The Boy Adeodatus, Bernard Smith; assorted articles.

21.6.04 em – Former residents access to study at QUT – alternative entry pathway

22.6.04 – Stale bread and stiff cheese, Reg Mounsey; Reflections of My Youth: My time at Dill Mackie 1940-47, Barry Jacka; Children in Need: Child Welfare in NSW, Donald McLean, 1955; Info on Homes: Milleewa, Wilson, Margate and Sandgate, St Canice Sandy Bay, memories of methodist homes Cheltenham, St Vincent's Westmead AR 1969; SMH Article on 1960 drowning .

23.6.04 em – CLAN and the Salvation Army

24.6.04 em – DOCS files and personal access

25.6.04 em – Copy of letter to Today show re Salvation Army

1.7.04 em – Info on Rupertswood, Providence and Lutheran homes in Vic

1.7.04 em – List of books on orphanages in Australian libraries

2.7.04 em – finding family file in Tas

4.7.04 em – Tasmania and research work; Margaret's story

5.7.04 em – Limitations of SA inquiry leading to class action and 5AA transcripts of abuse and death in orphanages

8 & 9.7.04 em – CLAN funding and operation

9.7.04 em – Info on Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board

9.7.04 em – Info on Legacy wards

13.7.04 em - Destruction of South Australian wards files

19.7.04 em – State wards and access to files by siblings and direct family

20.7.04 em – Info on Sandgate Home, Brisbane

21.7.04 – Current and historical info on different Homes: Rupertswood, Sunbury Industrial School, Petersham Girls Industrial, Silky Oaks, Menzies Homes, St Joseph's Lane Cove, Pallister Girls Homes, Ballarat Orphanage, Melbourne Orphanage, Lutheran Homes Surrey Hills and Kew, Abbotsford Convent (St Heliers); Growing Up in Richmond, Morag Loh; extracts from A History of Australian Childhood; Childrens Registers 1864-1965, DHS Vic

23.7.04 em –DOCS and a CLAN member

23.7.04 em – Numbers of children in care

25.7.04 em – 'Airing the dirty linen', article from The West Australian, 24.7.04

29.7.04 em – QUT: former residents access to study – Q-Step Program

31.7.04 em – Correspondence with State departments

1.8.04 em – Info on WR Black Home

5.8.04 em – Personal comments on Salvation Army's conduct of Homes

6.8.04 em – Info on Ballarat Orphanage; Families Australia Child Abuse and Neglect Summit – Update

9.8.04 – Info on St Vincent's, Nudgee, including Centenary; Monte Pio, Maitland; assorted articles.

11.8.04 – Info on Yawarra Boys Training School, Kurri Kurri

15.8.04 em – Update on Australian based applicants for Irish RIRB compensation

17.8.04 em – Responses received by CLAN to article in Herald Sun on 15.8.04

17.8.04 em – Photo of Murray Dwyer Home, Mayfield; info on Monte Pio

21.8.04 em – Children in care by type of placement, Qld 1896-1996

23.8.04 em – Brief info on Myee and Corelli

4.9.04 em – Info on Ballarat Orphanage and Children's Home

12.9.04 em – Letter to Salvation Army Special Search Service

15.9.04 em – Comments re Irish Redress Board

22.9.04 – Personal stories; articles and info on homes; Anglican pastoral care and assistance information; CLAN Newsletter

30.9.04 em – Comments from daughter of NSW Dept house parents

16.10.04 em – Info from London Careleavers group

19.10.04 – Personal stories from Robert, Gwenda, Janice and Mavis; historical info on St Andrews and Dorcas Homes Manly, Ohio Boys Home Walcha, Croagh Patrick Orange Jubilee; Sydney Anglican information on pastoral care and assistance for victims of child abuse dated August 2004; St Vincent's Adolescent Care Westmead 2003; DoCS glossary of terms used on old files; misc press articles

12.11.04 – Info on Homes including Parkerville, WA; Castledare 1929-79; Berry Street, Vic; Kardinia House; Elizabeth Fry Retreat; Kildonan; Attachment and Separation, Vera Fahlberg

15.11.04 em – Letter supporting Positive Justice Centre sup submission No 122A

4.12.04 em – Apology re Scotland from Scottish First Minister (BBC news item)

17.12.04 – Magill Methodist Home (Lentara), Adelaide; Presbyterian Boys Home, Manly; Lists of Homes and orphanages; articles and media clippings

22.12.04 em – Working at Winlaton 1968-69

13.1.05 – The Haven: Coventry Home News 1950, articles and media clippings

23.1.05 em – Child welfare graves; Photos of Allambie, Vic

24.1.05 em – St Nicholas Boys Home, Glenroy personal comments

28.1.05 em – Education and 'looked after children', experiences of a UK careleaver

31.1.05 – Various newspaper articles; anonymous poem and comments by a careworker

3.2.05 em – Photos of Sutherland Homes, Berry St Babies Home, St Cuthberts and Ohio Boys Home, NSW