Tasmanian Memorial, Rosny Park
An additional memorial at the Rosny Park Park Golf Course, in suburban Hobart, funded and supported by the Find and Connect Program, the Rosny Park Golf YMCA, and the Alliance for Forgotten Australians, "In memory of all that suffered while in care in Tasmanian institutions and out of home care."
Tasmanian Memorial, Hobart
Located in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart, funded by the Australian Government and the Tasmanian Government: "In remembrance of those children who languished in institutional care. To those who succumbed to harsh punishments meted out by a severe system, we remember you. To those who overcame such experiences, we acknowledge your courage and your determination to have your story told".
WA Memorial
Located on James Street, Perth, in the grassed area in front of the WA Museum. The memorial "is jointly funded by the Western Australian and Commonwealth Governments and is dedicated to all Western Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children."
Victorian Memorial
Located on Southbank Promenade, next to the Yarra River to "remember those thousands of children who were separated from their families and grew up or spent time in Victorian orphanages, children’s homes and foster homes last century."
SA Memorial
Located in Peace Park, corner of Sir Edwin Smith Avenue and Brougham Place, "In honour of children who suffered abuse in institutional and out of home care."
NSW Memorial
Located in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens to "remember the many thousands of NSW children who grew up in care in the decades leading up to the 1990s – in orphanages, in Children’s Homes and foster homes, in institutions". It recognises the "courage and strength" of "the lonely, the frightened, the lost, the abused – those who never knew the joy of a loving family, who suffered too often at the hands of a system meant to provide for their safety and wellbeing".
AFA
The Alliance for Forgotten Australians aims to promote recognition for people who experienced institutional or other out-of-home care as children and young people. The organisation takes its name from the 2004 Forgotten Australians Senate Report.
Bringing Them Home Report
A critically important text that paved the way for recognition of the Stolen Generations - the thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from their families over generations of colonisation in Australia. It was written by the Australian Human Rights Commission as the Final Report of the “National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families”, which was the culmination of many years of advocacy by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activists and survivors.
