Copy of a Find & Connect blog post announcing a new grants round by Genevieve Wauchope | RAD2 Grants Officer, Find & Connect project: A new round of the Records Access Documentation grants for organisations to document records relating to care leavers will open in October. Successful projects will be funded to $15 000. The grants are being funded as part […]
The Paradox of Memorials for the Forgotten
A very interesting article on the Find & Connect blog about memorials around Australia to remember children who grew up in orphanages, children’s Home, and other institutions and in foster ‘care’. (Read it here) This blog post raises again the issue I’ve written about before: is the label ‘Forgotten Australians’ any longer appropriate? Isn’t there an inherent contradiction being […]