Forgotten Australians – Inquiries and Reports

Australian Government

Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual (current). http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/

Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Forgotten Australians, A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children, August 2004. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/complet ed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/index.htm

Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Protecting vulnerable children: A national challenge, Second report on the inquiry into children in institutional care or out-of-home care, March 2005. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/complet ed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report2/index.htm

Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Revisited, Report on the progress with the implementation of the recommendations of the Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Reports, June 2009. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/complet ed_inquiries/2008-10/recs_lost_innocents_forgotten_aust_rpts/report/index.htm

Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Lost Innocents: Righting the Record, Report on Child Migration, August 2001. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/complet ed_inquiries/1999-02/child_migrat/report/index.htm

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), Bringing them home, Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families, April 1997. http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-report-1997 Full PDF of report: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/social_justice/bringing_them_home_report. pdf

State/Territory Governments

Victorian Parliament Inquiry into the Handling of by Religious and Other Organisations (current). Report will be published here: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/fcdc/article/1788

Queensland Government Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions (Forde Inquiry), May 1999. http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/resources/communityservices/community/forgotten-australians/forde- comminquiry.pdf

South Australian Government Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (Mullighan Inquiry), March 2008. Full report near the bottom of this page: http://www.sa.gov.au/subject/Crime%2C+justice+and+the+law/Mullighan+Inquiry/Children+in+state+care

Crime and Misconduct Commission – Queensland, Protecting Children: An inquiry into abuse of children in , January 2004. http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/childsafety/about-us/publications/protecting-children-an-inquiry-into- abuse-of-children-in-foster-care

ACT Commissioner for Public Administration, The Territory as Parent: review of the safety of children in care in the ACT and of ACT child protection management (Vardon Report), May 2004. http://www.dhcs.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/4901/Review_safety_children_in_care.pdf

Tasmanian Ombudsman, Review of Claims of Abuse from Adults in State Care as Children, (O’Grady Review), November 2004. http://www.stors.tas.gov.au/au-7-0057-00034

NSW Government, Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service (Wood Royal Commission), 1995- 1997 [initial terms of reference were extended to include investigation of organised paedophile networks in NSW, care arrangements for at-risk minors and the effectiveness of police guidelines for investigating sex offences against minors]. All volumes available here: http://www.pic.nsw.gov.au/OtherReportsAndPublications.aspx