Tony Young interviewed by Caroline Evans in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5099580
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Young, Tony, 1949-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 3 sound files (ca. 171 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Tony Young speaks about his family background in Wynyard, Tasmania; becoming a ward of the state at age six; his foster placements; his schooling; being neglected and abused in foster care; his relationship with his mother and siblings; Gilburn Receiving Home; a foster placement on King Island; Kennerly Boys Home; Ashley Home for Boys; being sent to work on Flinders Island; getting a job with the Agricultural Bank; joining the army; two tours of duty in Vietnam; the health impacts of being a Vietnam veteran; his marriages; his children and his relationship with them; the 'Listen to the Children' review; his own file; the difficulties claiming ex-gratia payments; the 'Forgotten Australians'; receiving a personal apology from the State Premier; being the Tasmanian representative of the Alliance for Forgotten Australians; his hopes for Federal government compensation; the fears of institutions for aging former state wards; being resilient; visiting orphanages in Vietnam (2002); relationships between organisations for former state wards; the government's duty of care towards former state wards; the need to prevent abuse of state wards from happening now.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 18 February 2011, at Devonport, Tas.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.) and corrected transcript available (typescript, 81 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Evans, Caroline, 1950-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2011
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