I thank each and every one of you who have read my post and put their thoughts online for me to read. I think many of you that have read ‘Politicians and the Forgotten Australians’ think that I am forever depressed, I am far from this. I do have a life; at the moment I teach old people and some Forgotten Australians how to get savvy with the PC.
So please do understand I do enjoy my life, but I will never hide who I am ever again, for too long I had done this worried about the stigma that came with it, when all the time it was what the perpetrators that wanted us to think we would never have the courage to come forward and tell others of our plight.
I am probably just one of the lucky ones amongst so many of us that were humiliated abused and tortured to their whims. I have come out the other side not afraid any more to let the world know what these institutions done to us.

I am and always will be a FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIAN until the day I die.

And to all you Forgotten Australians out there I say,

STAND UP, STAND UP, WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIANS

We will have our day

Bazzah

Good on you for raising this important issue again; and thanks to others for their support and respect.

It’s all very well for people to tell you to get over it. I’ll bet they’d think differently if they were raped, sodomised and brutalised when placed in the ‘care’ of the State or the churches.

Tell them to visit Will Will Rook cemetery at Broadmeadows where lie the bodies of hundreds of infants who died in ‘care’. Many of them without a full name. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pobjoyoneill/WillWillRook/wwrindex.html)

Or send them to Ballarat Cemetery where 26 Orphanage inmates were given a decent burial only this year when most had died as children in ‘care’ decades ago.

Tell them to read the 600 first-hand accounts of abuse and neglect in the Senate Inquiry.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/index.htm

Tell them to stand on the steps of Parliament as we do every month waiting to be acknowledged by politicians who scurry by.

Ask them how they would get over being used as human guinea pigs by CSL and others illegally testing new vaccines.

Ask them how you can show love as a parent when you never had any as a child but learned to 'control' emotions.

Ask them how you can make peace with God when servants of God raped you. Ask them why God betrayed you.

Ask them how they would have survived, after a life of abuse and neglect, shoved out at fifteen with no knowledge or skills to cope in the real world.

Tell them the Senate Committee which made 39 recommendations on the Forgotten Australians in 2004 is currently inquiring into what Commonwealth and State governments, churches and charities have done to implement those recommendations.

Tell them the Senate Committee won’t have a big job because very little has been done. Most of it swept under the carpet in the name of community comfortableness.

Tell them to write to the Senate Committee (community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au ) and give them a message of support in calling governments and churches to account for the massive violation of trust of vulnerable children.

That was incorrect Spikey.

Not all ministers/pastors are failures in their walk with The Lord.

You cant lob them all, who taught with the Aborigines, into one basket and suggest all are sex deviants...which mostly you did.

Some were deviants and some are, even now... but not a great number as a percentage of the overall church population in regards to missionaries in Australia.

God brings everyone into Judgment.

He doesnt protect his ministers/pastors if they fail. Ive seen God Judge and its frightening.

I know many fine Christian folk who work amongst the Forgotten Australians and they have done marvellously well.

Dear Bazzah and Spikey,

Has anyone ever done a full length Feature article
here in the Forum Article section, on the
Forgotten Australians?

If not, why not?

Perhaps Graham Young, the Forum Administrator
could be approached regarding this topic?

More people need to know the full details of
your cases.

Doing a feature article might help.

Just a suggestion ...

Hi Gibo
I think you might have misread what spikey had posted, nowhere has he stated that it was all the ministers/pastors.
He is merely explaining in general, what happened to him and many others that were placed into institutions that were run by priest, brothers, nuns, salvation army and many others.

These were people who were suppose to be a representation of the Church. These people had failed dismally in the duties that they were suppose to carry out.

I might also add Gibo, Spikey is probably the last person who needs to be reminded of the power of God. I'm sure he will agree with me that he had the wrath of God rammed at him every day he was in the institution, and only to be abused by the same people who were telling him what a wonderful person God is.

So one does need to fully understand where Spikey is coming from, and also he is speaking from the heart.

I am and always will be a FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIAN until the day I die.

And to all you Forgotten Australians out there I say,

STAND UP, STAND UP, WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIANS

We will have our day

Keep yelling out Spikey until they all hear

Hi Foxy
Last year I done a feature on the Forgotten Australians whilst I was at University, if whoever gives the thumbs up I would be only to happy to put it on line, the feature story was on the apology and how one felt about it. I wrote in the first person, although I did have to get uni approval to do it this way.
Well it worked out well as I received a high distinction for it and was also awarded a 'Certificate of Merit' from the university.