This website is a confronting and poignant look at the stories
of people who have managed to survive the loss of their families identity and culture. Coupled with academic research this site
provides a valuable resource to help the reader understand the complex mental health issues of the survivors of past separation
policies
Our
Conference Aims
The history
of the Australian Government through its Child Welfare Departments has been one of family separation
T through
Government policy and practice. Those policies
have encompassed
infant adoption, state wardship, Government policy of Assimilation of Indigenous people,
and
British Child Migration Schemes.
In more recent years
policy has changed to
focus on reunification
and family preservation.
This Conference is the first of its kind to bring
together,
and represent, all families who have been torn apart
by past policies. Its aim is to focus on that which unites
us all-
the mental health issues, both generational and
immediate, created by a united trauma, loss and
grief.
