The 2004 Senate Enquiry wasn't the first time the word Forgotten was applied to Australian care leavers. The excerpt below is from an article nearly 15 years prior. Lew and I and some early FICH members talked to the journalist, Carol Haffke, and were believed. She reportedly cried with one of the victims. She was someone … Continue reading The Story of FICH: Part 3
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The story of FICH: Part 2
For the first couple of years (1990, 1991) FICH meetings were unstructured social get-togethers where people shared their stories. For many of them, it would be the first time they had disclosed what happened to them. Lew and I started the group because we had never met another person from the Homes. What we found … Continue reading The story of FICH: Part 2
