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Recent Posts
- 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 Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money)
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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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Walking the Path (Or: Endless Highway)
The “Heiner Affair” remains a stain on Queensland’s juvenile justice system (see previous posting). At the time the Goss Labor Government decided to shred documents, some people were agitating about events at the Westbrook Boys’ Reformatory, which had been at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred “Crow” Fletcher, “walking the path”, Heiner Affair, Heiner enquiry, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Schwaten Enquiry, Westbrook Boys’ Home
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Salvation Army Admissions to the Victorian Enquiry (Or: Things Are Good Now, Trust Me)
Image source: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2013/02/06/358672_news.html The Salvation Army, at the Victorian Parliamentary enquiry into religious sexual abuse, has admitted to 470 claims of abuse from the Children’s Homes it operated until the 1980s. It had paid out between $15 million and $20 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayswater Boys’ Home, Box Hill Boys’ Home, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Bayswater Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Box Hill Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Captain Roberts, Salvation Army child sexual abuse, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvos, Vlad Selakovic
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