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- Changes to this Blog February 24, 2023
- Salvation Army Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money) January 30, 2014
- Salvation Army Abuse Witnesses’ Accounts (Or: And You Thought The Convict Days Were Long Past) January 29, 2014
- Who Cares (Or: War Crimes) January 28, 2014
- The Author’s Rebuttal To Mr. McClellan’s Reasons For Non-Permission To Appear At The Salvation Army Boys’ Homes Hearings And Present A Submission (Or: McClellan Rules, O.K.?) January 27, 2014
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Salvation Army Abuse Witnesses’ Accounts (Or: And You Thought The Convict Days Were Long Past)
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
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Who Cares (Or: War Crimes)
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
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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
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The Author’s Rebuttal To Mr. McClellan’s Reasons For Non-Permission To Appear At The Salvation Army Boys’ Homes Hearings And Present A Submission (Or: McClellan Rules, O.K.?)
Now that it is official that I will not be permitted, by the chairman of the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, Peter McClellan, to give evidence on my old Boys’ Home, “Alkira” – otherwise known … Continue reading
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Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Indooroopilly Salvation Army Home for Boys, learned helplessness, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse, Peter McClellan, Royal Commission protocols, sadistic arousal, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Children’s Homes
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Commission Revisits “Towards Healing” (Or: Re-Writing History For Fun And Profit)
Image based on: http://www.fruitycuties.com The chief commissioner of the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, Peter McClellan, and his counsel assisting, Gail “Snow White” Furness, have been very kind to the Catholic Church. They have given … Continue reading
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Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Catholic Church, Catholic Church Professional Standards Office, Catholic Church Truth Justice and Healing Council, Gail “Snow White” Furness, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Michael Salmon, Peter McClellan, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army’s Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Towards Healing, YMCA
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Why the Delay? (Or: We’ll Let You Know – Sometime)
The next hearings of the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, focusing on four Salvation Army Boys’ Homes (Riverview, Bexley, Gill Memorial Boys’ Home and Alkira), is due to start in a week. In fact there … Continue reading
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Tagged Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bexley Boys Home, Catholic Church, Gail “Snow White” Furness, Gail Furness, Gill Memorial Boys’ Home, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Peter McClellan, Riverview Boys’ Home, Riverview Training Farm, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Bexley Boys’ Home, Salvation Army child abuse, Salvation Army Children’s Homes, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Boys' Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Training Farm, Towards Healing, Wally McLeod, YMCA
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More On The Salvation Army’s Employee Relations (Or: Working For The Man)
Image: Picket fence and bell-tower built by ‘Work for the Dole’ people for the Salvation Army in Australia (Source: Salvation Army) The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse will not be looking into the child slave … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Booth Center Ottawa, child slave labor, child slave labour, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, New Zealand Children’s Homes, Peter McClellan, red kettle, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Boys’ Home Indooroopilly, Salvation Army Canada, Salvation Army United States, Salvos, work for the dole, Workfare
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A First Look At The Salvation Army’s Employment Practices (Or: What Would William Wilberforce Say?)
Image source: anaconda15.wordpress.com There is one aspect of the Salvation Army Children’s Homes which will not be covered at the up-coming hearings into the Home by the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. That issue is … Continue reading
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Tagged A4E, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, bell-ringers, child labor, child labour, Coalition against Poverty, Hunger Action Network, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Peter Farthing, Peter McClellan, red kettle, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvo thrift shops, Salvos, slave labor, slave labour, William Wilberforce, work for the dole, Workfare
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Algate Boys’ Home (Or: Do As You’re Told)
While the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s next hearings (beginning 28th January) will cover two Queensland and two NSW Boys’ Home, operated by the Salvation Army, there are many others not being covered. One of … Continue reading
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Tagged Algate House Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bindoon, Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN), Catholic Church, child migrants, Christian Brothers, Irish child migrants, Irish inquiry child abuse, Kevin Stace, Leonie Sheedy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malta child migrants, Peter McClellan, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvos, UK child migrants
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