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Lost & Found: State Children in Victoria (4)

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 27 July 2017Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged Royal Park, Travencore, Turana

ROYAL PARK IN PARKVILLE – THE DEPOT AND MUCH MORE Against that back-story we come to Royal Park in Parkville. No site has had such a confusing history as Royal Park. You get a sense of this in its more than a dozen alternative names and functions over the years (matched by repeated changes of […]

A Mother 12 Storeys High with a Letterhead

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 6 October 2015Posted in Sexual AbuseTagged adoption, Affirm Press, Ballarat, child abuse, child welfare, Children's Homes, Children's Institutions, Family, foster care, Ginger Briggs, Neglected, orphanage, State Wards, Turana, Warrawee1 Comment

Is fact stranger than fiction? Comments on Ginger Briggs, Staunch, Affirm Press, Melbourne, 2012. I was so stirred up by this disturbing book that instead of placing it with my regular short reviews of books (here) I wanted to make a closer examination of this fascinating work. On face value, Staunch is a novel, based on a true story. […]

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