Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Orphans of the Living: Growing up in 'care' in twentieth-century Australia

Orphans of the Living: Growing up in 'care' in twentieth-century Australia

Penglase, Joanna

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1920731660
ISBN13: 9781920731663
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: Mar 20 2025
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented Forgotten Australians, the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in 'care' in twentieth-century Australia, and most often these children lived with daily brutal physical and emotional abuse in the sterile environment of an institution. Drawing on interviews, submissions to the Senate Inquiry, and her own experience, Joanna Penglase describes for the first time the experience from the perspective of the survivors. With tenderness, compassion and intellect, Penglase begins to unravel the seemingly inexplicable: how and why did this happen? She looks not only at the profound personal costs to these children, but the huge social and economic costs of these past policies.

Also in

Social Movements

View All