Frank Gol and Huffnpuff,
My support is the least I can do. My high school had a number of Home kids and we had no idea of the things they endured (50 years ago).

Andrew Murray tells me that all states, except SA and the Teritories, have issued an apology, which is something. Because of the PM's speech last Wednesday he is working toward the same for the other Forgotten Australians.

He also sent me copies of 'Lost Inncents' and 'Protecting Vulnerable Childre', which I am reading now. It seems quite a number are activly promoting the needs of the 'Forgotten Children and he asked me to write to the PM, which I will do.

It will be interesting to see if the present Government takes more interest than the previous one. However I can understand them saying that many of the reports recomendations were the responsibility of State Governments, which is correct as they were the law making body and responsible for State Wards.

You blokes probably already know this stuff, but others reading this may not.

If I get any further replies that are more interesting than just acknowledgement of letter received, I will let you know via this thread and I will send the letter on to CLAN

Best of luck with this.

HI to all THE FORGOTTEN AUSTALIANS OUT THEIR

I have been reading a lot of the post lately and i see their are many wanting to help and others just think we are a waste of space

banjo ,frank and all others letting you all know i to did send every parliment member an email in respect to getting some attention for us FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIANS

so far i have only one reply and that was from sue ellery and all she said to me keep my fight up

i had a lot that were rejected and i know it wasn;t the wrong emails address just is as soon as they see a message from me they must be putting them in the bin just really shows how much a bunch of gutless members in parliment as they still don't have the balls to raise this issue in the parliment

i watch them on parliment tv and they hurl abuse at each other yet they can not even have the guts to mention the FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIANS .

WHY ? BECAUSE THEY KNOW I SPEAK THE TRUTH OF WHAT WE SUFFERED AS CHILDREN AND THEY HAVE NOT THE BALLS TO SPEAK OUT IF IT HAPPEND TO A FRIEND OR A CHILD THEY NEW I GUESS IT WOULD BE DIFFRENT

ANYWAY I THANK ALL WHO HAVE TRIED TO GET US SOME HELP TO GET SOME REAL TRUTH FROM THE GOVERMENT OF WHICH IS STILL COVERING UP THE ABUSES THAT WE OCCURRED AS CHILDREN

Also just letting everyone know i am a member of clan care leavers network australia and they them self have been fighting for the FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIANS

so if the goverment wants me to take action into my own hands just tell them to ring me as they all have my home address and phone and fax numbers as i named the two pedophiles to them all pluss their names are in the court transrcipts the people who raped me when i was a child and this goverment is still protecting them because they worked for them at daruk boys home

Huffnpuff,
This may be old hat to you and you have probably been over it a dozen times, but would you not get better results by tackling the State Governments, as they were the ones responsible for State Wards and the supervision of the childrens Homes.

The Federal Government has no authority over State Governmets, only over the Teritories.

I would not be surprized if you say you have been fobbed off there also. But keep trying. Also do you combine your efforts with others like the child migrants that were brought out here?

Huffnpuff,
It just occured to me. Can you find out how many CLAN members are members of political parties? Get them to raise the issue of prosecuting those abusers that are stil alive, at their branch meetings and see if some will take it to state level.

I think Belly is a member of the ALP and he has already sent letters, so maybe he will also raise the issue at his branch.

I am not a member of any political party, but that will not stop me from writing to the local branches in my area, about the issue.

Good luck.

Frank Gol and huffnpuff,
If you happen to see this, I am sorry to say that Andrew Murray was the only reply I got from all the letters I sent to senators and to my local member. Pretty poor effort by them I think.

Banjo

Thank you for making the effort. Wish there were more like you - willing to have a go.

Your experience tallies with other people's experience, however. I'd write back and tell them that you and lots of your friends are thinking of running a campaign in marginal seats at the next election, but you would go soft on those MPs who offer to support the Forgotten Australians.

We are also encouraging people to make a face-to-face appointment with their local Member. It's harder to say 'no' when you're being eyeballed.