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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A Letter to Archbishop Fisher
Dear Archbishop Fisher I understand that you believe the 'relentless' campaign to strip the Church of its assets (note the brutal metaphor) is motivated by a desire to destroy the Church’s good works. I hope this story will add to the dialogue in a constructive way. In 1990 and for the following three years, the … Continue reading A Letter to Archbishop Fisher
The Brave People of FICH
Today I will republish articles and photos from 25 years ago, before there was any Royal Commission about institutional child abuse, before any Senate Inquiry, or Forde Inquiry acknowledged their pain. They were voices crying in the wilderness, but some brave journalists helped, as you will see when reading these amazing articles from 1992 and … Continue reading The Brave People of FICH
The Story of FICH: Part 1
The support group Formerly in Children’s Homes officially existed in Queensland in 1992 when it became Incorporated, but it had started on August 27th, 1990 after our $100 ad in the Courier Mail. It was meant to be Children’s Homes, not ‘Children Homes’ but there was a typo. Here is the CM article that … Continue reading The Story of FICH: Part 1
