Oliver Cosgrove interviewed by Christine Choo for the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5814286
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cosgrove, Oliver, 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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- 2012
- 3 sound files (ca. 247 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Oliver Cosgrove was born (1949), in a lying-in home for unmarried women in London. He talks about: Catholic Child Migrant Scheme; Nazareth House; St Vincent's Foundling Home; St Joseph's Orphanage; Sisters of Mercy; Christian Brothers; living conditions and treatment of the children in the institutions, Castledare, Clontarf; quality of the schooling; Aboriginal worker Rosie Finnucane; British child migrants; treatment during weekend outings to families; family in Ireland; Catholic Child Welfare Council; The Scheme and Reaping the Whirlwind by Barry Coldry; New South Wales Supreme Court; employment; National Service (1970) and Vietnam; teaching career; culture of mining towns; isolation, mental health and institutionalisation; post traumatic stress; Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC); retirement (2009); Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA); CBERS (Christian Brothers Ex Residents' Services); Department for Family and Children's Services; Class Actions in New York, (The Alien Tort Statute) and in Australia with Slater & Gordon; Apology to Forgotten Australians; Reconciliation Commission; Redress Scheme; identity and acceptance; reflections on his life, family and survival.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 2, 3 and 9 February 2012 in Bicton, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (10 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Teachers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Choo, Christine, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2012
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