Our goal is to foster greater understanding and protection of
human rights in Australia and to address the human rights concerns of a broad range of individuals and groups.
Senate Community
Affairs Reference Committee 2004. The Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out
of home care as children. Senate printing Unit: Canberra.
see
also: Forde, L. (chair) Report of the
Commission of Inquiry into abuse of children in Queensland institutions Queensland Government Printer, Brisbane, 1999. Information for former residents of children’s institutions to access
their records.
Redress WA, for
those who as children were abused while in State care in Western Australia. The State Government deeply regrets that abuse
has taken place.
State
Government Archives: The Archives Act, 1960 (NSW)
created an Authority to conserve State Government archives, and section 14 of the Act prohibited destruction of archives without
the permission of that Authority. Before that, no such restrictions applied.
NSW State
Welfare Note: from the time it was established
in 1923, the Department of Community Services has successively been named the Child Welfare Department, Department of Child
Welfare and Social Welfare (1956), the Department of Youth and Community Services (1973), the Department of Youth, Ethnic
and Community Affairs (1975), Department of Youth and Community Services (1976).
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