Maria Harries interviewed by Christine Choo in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5755518
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Harries, Maria, 1947-, 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
- 2 sound files (ca. 166 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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Maria Harris reflects on the reasons for her involvement with Forgotten Australians. Born in Uganda. Maria talks about: her parents, family life and guardianship of brother; sense of justice and anti-racism; Dominican Orphanage and Nazareth House, Zimbabwe; foster families; family fleeing to England; institutional life; move to Tasmania; working in the Hollywood Repatriation Hospital, Mental Health Unit in Perth, Fremantle Hospital, Royal Hobart Hospital and Adelaide; marriage; university education and career in child welfare and mental health areas: Ministerial Inquiry into Child Protection; Christian Brothers; institutions in Western Australia; child abuse; former child migrants; Christian Brothers Ex-Residents Services (C-BERS); Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty and Exploitation and Supporters (VOICES); Child Migrant Trust; Clontarf, Castledare, Tardun and Bindoon; Forgotten Australians; Western Australian Redress Scheme; Senate Inquiry into Forgotten Australians; Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA); Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), Mental Health Council of Australia, Families Australia; Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA); Communities Consulting Group; Apology (2009); network of welfare agencies; Out of Home Care; impacts of removal; paradigm in Australia, risk averse system to family support system; mandatory reporting; turnover rate of child protection workers; failure of policy and; her reflections on the future.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 23 and 28 November 2011 in Subiaco, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.)
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Choo, Christine, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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