This article concerns one notable feature of narratives around child welfare records: the prevalence of stories of records destroyed in natural disasters. These stories have the power to rouse strong emotions for people who grew up in institutional “care.” Care Leavers, many of whom have a justifiable lack of trust in institutions and authority as a result of their childhood experiences, are skeptical about the supposed loss of their records in fires and floods. They remain suspicious that the records do exist but are being withheld to protect the reputations of the institutions. This article considers Gilliland and Caswell’s notion of “archival imaginaries” in the context of missing, lost, or inaccessible child welfare records in Australia...
Disasters are globally inflected today in humanitarian assistance, the organizations that support pe...
In 2006, Victoria became the first state in Australia to enact laws specifically criminalizing docum...
In Australia, as in a number of other nations, personal testimony has played a central role in achie...
This article concerns one notable feature of narratives around child welfare records: the prevalence...
Approximately 500,000 children were institutionalised in Australian orphanages and other forms of ch...
For children in out-of-home care (OOHC) and adults who experienced OOHC as children, the records com...
This article examines the concept of co-created and person-centred recordkeeping and the needs for t...
Recent parliamentary inquiries in Australia and elsewhere have highlighted the importance of records...
In 2016, the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) commenced a program of change with regard to its...
Disasters are prevalent with devastating effects on vulnerable populations that include the elderly,...
This article explores the challenges of engaging historically excluded communities with archives and...
This article explores the challenges of engaging historically excluded communities with archives and...
This case study of the use of hospital accident and emergency records to safeguard children was trig...
Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by official voices justifying...
A more thorough understanding of disasters can help archivists assemble and acquire collections of d...
Disasters are globally inflected today in humanitarian assistance, the organizations that support pe...
In 2006, Victoria became the first state in Australia to enact laws specifically criminalizing docum...
In Australia, as in a number of other nations, personal testimony has played a central role in achie...
This article concerns one notable feature of narratives around child welfare records: the prevalence...
Approximately 500,000 children were institutionalised in Australian orphanages and other forms of ch...
For children in out-of-home care (OOHC) and adults who experienced OOHC as children, the records com...
This article examines the concept of co-created and person-centred recordkeeping and the needs for t...
Recent parliamentary inquiries in Australia and elsewhere have highlighted the importance of records...
In 2016, the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) commenced a program of change with regard to its...
Disasters are prevalent with devastating effects on vulnerable populations that include the elderly,...
This article explores the challenges of engaging historically excluded communities with archives and...
This article explores the challenges of engaging historically excluded communities with archives and...
This case study of the use of hospital accident and emergency records to safeguard children was trig...
Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by official voices justifying...
A more thorough understanding of disasters can help archivists assemble and acquire collections of d...
Disasters are globally inflected today in humanitarian assistance, the organizations that support pe...
In 2006, Victoria became the first state in Australia to enact laws specifically criminalizing docum...
In Australia, as in a number of other nations, personal testimony has played a central role in achie...