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Willow Court is significant to the Disability Sector! It has a rich and powerful history, and if we want to preserve it we need to take some positive action. We need as a sector to find ways to work with the council and community to assist them in their efforts to find the future direction for this site. We don’t have answers but as a collective group we can start to find them. What we do need is support! Please join this page and invite all people who think have an interest and some passion.
Janet Presser
A Site of Conscience interprets history through historic sites; engages in programs that stimulate dialogue on pressing social issues; They also draw explicit connections between past and present; foster dialogue among diverse stakeholders; and open avenues for citizen participation in other human rights or transitional justice efforts.
Janet Presser
Well my involvement apart from being on the Willow Court & Barracks Working Group is that I worked at WC in the 70’s…not a good experience, mainly because of the system. I had a family member there also, who I didn;t know about until I went to work there..some families kept some things secret and when I managed a residential service I was involved in moving people who had lived most of their lives in WC out into the community.
Anne Salt
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History has clearly discriminated against this group of people, housed away from their families and their communities and isolated within old buildings with a history of poor quality block services in a medical facility that to this day hasn’t cured anyone of their intellectual disability.
A colorful past history including extremes of ongoing abuse is well recorded. The other side of the extreme was the extra that staff went to, to be the best they could under difficult circumstances. For most people the reality was in between these two extremes.
We still struggle with portraying people who still don’t have a voice as objects of entertainment for a few people with an interest in paranormal activities.
Clearly our presences at this meeting posed a real risk to the future potential of their business concerns.
Nick, Can you point me to any of the information on this site to which they may be referring? I’d like to have a look at what they think you’re saying, and possibly help prepare some answers for you to throw back art them. The problem with many people who come gunning for a ghost tour operator is that almost all of them fail to take into account that we have done a hell of a lot of historic research and cross-checking before we even dare open our mouths to a single punter. I’ve had to deal with this kind of thing in the past. You can never be too prepared, and being properly prepared usually lays these arguments to rest.
Cheers, Tony Kempton Historic, and Ghost Tours
Teachers in disability hay what would they know about rdh/wc did they ever work there no i dont think so they need to get a life and worry about there two bit course they so called teach. In my opinion any one that did a tafe course and came to work with me didnt know what they were doing. Go hassle someone else like the vandals and arsonists that are ruining the place
Best of luck with the meeting. I do hope they are all open minded and realise that paranormal investigation is not only very popular with people all over the world as a recreational past time it is also a very important field of study for many.
Unfortunately though I have to agree with Max. Sounds like someone has a bee in their bonnet.
I think what Towns and Councils need to realise is working with a reputable paranormal group or ghost tour operators for the purpose of accessing buildings not only educates people as to the history of these places, such as Willow Court, but can also generate a lot of income for the local Council and businesses within that community. I would love to be able to visit Willow Court one day. (Lesley NSW)
I honestly dont understand what they are on about?? disability students??? So the council will have to undertake a study for sure/ employ someone to research it / pay someone to write the report and print it… and then waste another few council meetings on it??? .. how much will that cost and what slant are they getting at? pretty please explain?
So… what are they trying to accomplish, this sounds like a witch hunt, and like the “witch hunts” of long ago, there is no reason for it, in reality its just people enforcing there point of view. Gr.