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The term Forgotten Australians is controversial. It sometimes refers to all Australian children, including Indigenous children and former child migrants to Australia who spent part or all of their childhoods in care during the 20th Century, [1] [14] particularly between 1920 and 1970. [15]
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (also known as FaCSIA) was an Australian government department that existed between January 2006 and December 2007. The department which preceded the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs was the Department of Family and Community Services (1998 ...
It was formed in 2007 and absorbed the former Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. As a result of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013, the Department of Social Services was established and assumed most of the responsibilities of FaHCSIA; with indigenous affairs functions assumed by the ...
The Department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister. [ 1 ] The Secretary of the Department was David Rosalky, until 2001 [ 1 ] and then subsequently Mark Sullivan, [ 4 ] until 2004 and then Jeff Harmer.
The department was formed by way of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013 [4] and replaced the majority of the functions previously performed by the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA); with the exception of Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, that was transferred to the Department of the Prime Minister ...
The site was the central point of child welfare in NSW, being the first place most children saw after they were taken from their families and the transit point for their referral to other institutions or programs. As a result, this was the place many members of the Forgotten Australians and Stolen Generations entered "care". [1] [2]
From its establishment in 2009 until the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011, the department was known as the Department of Human Services. [ 1 ] Until its 2019 abolition, the department provided services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people , children and young people, families, people who are homeless, people with a ...
The department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Labour and National Service. [1] Sir Roland Wilson was seconded to establish the new Department of Labour and National Service in 1940, and at 36 years old became its first administrative head. [3]