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Forgotten Australians or care leavers are terms referring to the estimated 500,000 children (a figure that includes child migrants and Indigenous Australians) who experienced care in institutions or outside a home setting in Australia during the 20th century.
About Forgotten Australians. The people who identify as Forgotten Australians are generally now 40 years of age and upwards. They are the survivors of the approximately 500,000 children who found themselves in institutional or other out-of-home care in the last century.
The Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA), formed in 2006, is an organisation which promotes the interests of the estimated 500,000 people known as Forgotten Australians, who experienced institutional or other out-of-home care as children and young people in the last century in Australia, many of whom suffered physical, emotional and/or ...
Forgotten Australians. It is estimated that for around 50 years in the early to mid-20th century, around 400,000 Australian-born children were removed from their families and placed in accommodation and welfare institutions, often known as ‘homes’. Reasons for removal included poverty, abuse and the absence of adult guardians.
In Victoria, the term ‘Forgotten Australians’ refers to people who spent time as children in institutions, orphanages and other forms of out-of-home ‘care’, prior to 1990, many of whom had physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse perpetrated against them.
Images & Videos. Related. Sam Hood, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: hood_03116. From the 1920s to the 1980s some 500,000 Australian children spent years living in institutions apart from their families. Those children are known as the Forgotten Australians.
The term 'Forgotten Australians' was used by the Senate to describe the thousands of people who experienced institutional or out-of-Home care in Australia in the twentieth century, particularly during the period from the 1930s to the 1970s.
