Tag Archives: Four Corners

Salvation Army Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by lewisblayse

SPECIAL NOTE: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television (ABC 2 / Ch. 24 digital) will be re-screening the “Four Corners” program from 2003, detailing abuses by the Salvation Army at its Children’s Homes – titled “The Homies”. The program will run … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “The Homies”, bear pit mentality, Bexley Boys Home, Bexley Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Captain Laurie Wilson, Chief Commissioner, compensation, EK, Emily Bourke, ET, Four Corners, FT, FV, GA, Gill Memorial Boys’ Home, government funding, homeless youth, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, James Condom, John McIver, Laurence Wilson, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, medical examinations, nightmares, pedophile ring, Peter McClellan, pimped, public hearings, Quentin McDermott, rape, Riverview Boys’ Home, Riverview Training Farm, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Bexley Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Boys’ Homes, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Boys' Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvation Army officers, Salvation Army Riverview Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Training Farm, Salvos, Simeon Beckett, submission, taxpayers’ money, Tony Abbott, Wally McLeod, Wood Royal Commission | 1 Comment

Salvation Army Abuse Witnesses’ Accounts (Or: And You Thought The Convict Days Were Long Past)

Posted on January 29, 2014 by lewisblayse

Image: Convict flogging c.1800 Australia The hearings of the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has entered its second day, covering the Salvation Army Boys’ Homes of Bexley, Gill, Riverview, and Alkira. Some “Not Directions Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Australian Salvation Army, ‘Captain Cowling’, “The Homies”, Bexley Boys Home, Captain Victor Bennett, Cliff Randall, Directions Not to Publish, Emily Bourke, Four Corners, Gill Memorial Boys’ Home, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, John McIver, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Lieutenant Spratt, Marina Randall, Peter Cosgrove, Peter McClellan, Queensland Children's Department, Riverview Boys’ Home, Riverview Training Farm, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Bexley Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Boys’ Homes, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Boys' Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Training Farm, Tony Abbott, Wally McLeod | Leave a comment

Who Cares (Or: War Crimes)

Posted on January 28, 2014 by lewisblayse

Image: “The Homies” Promo photo – the author is the boy in the top right hand corner of the picture (Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation: “Four Corners” 2003) The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began its … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Away With Rum, “Away, “The Gill”, “The Homies”, Bexley Boys Home, by Gum, Diamantina Receiving Depot, Donald Shultz, Four Corners, Gill Memorial Home, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, John Dalziel, John McIver, Lawrence Wilson, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Pete Seeger, Peter McClellan, Raymond Carlile, Riverview Boys’ Home, Riverview Training Farm, Russell Walker, sadistic arousal, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Bexley Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Training Farm, the Song of the Salvation Army”, Victor Bennett, Wally McLeod | 3 Comments

More Bites At The Cherry (Or: There Are The Deserving And Undeserving Poor – William Booth)

Posted on January 23, 2014 by lewisblayse

Image source: godandpoliticsuk.org The Australian royal commission into institutional response to child sexual abuse gave a second day to the Catholic Church to present more propaganda about how wonderful its “Towards Healing” process ( supposedly to help victims) really is. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian royal commission into institutional response to child sexual abuse, “Homies”, Ballard of Tom Joad, Barry Maslen, Catholic Church, deserving poor, Down and out in Paris and London, Four Corners, Grapes of Wrath, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Jennifer Gale, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, LGBQTI community, Peter Farthing Catherine Booth, Peter McClellan, Reputation Management in the Salvation Army – A Narrative Study, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Children’s Homes, Salvation Army soup kitchens, Salvation Army’s Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Towards Healing, undeserving poor, Wally McLeod, William Booth | Leave a comment

More from Lucas (Or: What? Me Remember?)

Posted on July 25, 2013 by lewisblayse

Image source: ABC Online Senior Catholic priest, Brian Lucas continues to have a poor memory, just like his colleagues. Ms Maria Gerace, a victims’ lawyer, challenged Lucas’ assertion that he could not remember anything about the McAlinden case. As she … Continue reading →

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The Salvation Army (Or: The War on Kids)

Posted on March 4, 2013 by lewisblayse

[Disclosure: The author was an inmate of the Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly, Brisbane from 1958 to 1960 and appeared, in 2004, in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s TV programme, “The Homies” on Four Corners, which detailed abuses in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barry William Johnston, Bayswater Children’s Home, Brisbane), Catholic Church, Charles Alan Smith, children's homes, Eden Park Boys’ Home, Forgotten Australians, Four Corners, General Shaw Clifton, John Bayer, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Perversion Files, power distance, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Russian government, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Home for Boys (Indooroopilly, state wards, terms of reference, Victorian Parliamentary enquiry, William Ferris, William John Keith Ellis | Leave a comment