- Target:
- State and Federal Governments
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- www.forgottenaustralians.com
Many inquiries are conducted throughout this country but still the Forgotten Australians wait for Justice.
Forgotten Australians are now adults, some of them in there thirties, some very elderly. They are survivors of the institutional care system, which was the standard form of out-of-home care in Australia for most of the 20th Century.
The 2004 Inquiry of the Senate Community Affairs References Committee1 estimated that more than 500,000 children have experienced life in an orphanage, home or other form of out-of-home care during the last century in Australia.
On 16 November 2009, the Australian Parliament, through the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, formally acknowledged and apologised for the experiences of Forgotten Australians and Child Migrants, their harsh treatment and their ongoing trauma.
It is hoped that the public recognition of their needs increases awareness and stimulates improved responses from governments, past providers of “care” and the health and welfare community.
We the people call on the various State and the Federal governments for a royal commission into the care of 500,000 children who were institutionalised, placed in orphanages and also in foster care during the period of the 1920’s to the 1990’s.
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The Royal Commission for the Forgotten Australians petition to State and Federal Governments was written by garry harrison and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.