Except that many of the now grown children seem to have the benefit of good health and education. Do we have to apologise for that? If the Australian War Memorial also decides to depict 'frontier wars' some might find the guilt industry is sucking up all the oxygen.

It's strange how the only history used by some people is to do with bad things, that later generations had nothing to with but who are expected to feel guilty about. Well, they don't feel guilty because 99.9% of them they don’t read such narrow-minded, obsessive nonsense; and those responsible for any real or imagined behaviour have been dead for decades. Get over it.

True; orphanages are an institution of last resort, but to malign Australian orphanages as something like a Romanian style Ceausescu orphanage horror unearthed in the 1980’s, is disingenuous.

Dividing blacks from whites on the subject is Wokeism; in orphanages, all lives of children matter I would think, and should not be divied-up on race for added emotional benefit.

Museums are not hubs for display of controversial social and cultural gripes. If the aim of the museum is to bring communities together around exhibitions of “mutual” interest, then agendas which unashamedly conform to left wing Wokeism are off the mark altogether.
Not everyone in any given community subscribes to one political view, so exhibitions of conflicting political conclusions are not encompassing but are confronting and off key as a whole.

It’s actually a good sign that the museum in question here, resisted a display conforming to ideological left leaning views.
My last visit to a major Sydney museum confirmed in me the view, that museums have become
Institutions themselves overburdened with Aboriginal cultural propaganda totally negating not only the purpose of my visit to update on the “universal” nature of exhibits built upon years of experience by the museum, but the disappointment the once useful for purpose institution had slipped in quality to nothing more than a left wing Trumpet fest of BS.

Author makes good points. Why can't the museum give a request that was asked because of an Anniversary as what possible reasoning could there be to say no? Sounds like a fob off. Sometimes the things that are not popular are the ones to talk about as our history, good or bad. How else do people learn and get educated as that is one reason you go to a museum. Where is the courage of the Museum to take on a subject that is hard as from what I read a small request to just hang a handmade quilt. What's the problem? Going by the numbers quoted a lot of Forgotten Australians out there and their descendants. They would be everywhere, in all walks of life. Probably know some. You never know how many of them might see it.

Thanks Leigh Westin for her work in doing the beautiful QUILT. My sister and myself gave permission for our names put on the QUILT for educational purpose and history. Why isn't the QUILT displayed in the Museum?. Its a small request. Horrific trauma and abuse, {some survived some didn't because they couldn't cope}. The abuse Forgotten Australians endured should not be swept under the carpet, as its part of Australian history.Forgotten Australians are disappointed that it wasn't hung as, requested, for the anniversary. Here's hoping that the Museum will reconsider their decision and display the important QUILT in the future.
F.Australians do not want history forgotten.