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There has been a call for Parramatta Girls home to be declared a “Site of Conscience” with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, the same group that we are advocating for Willow Court.

“Authorities promised to educate and reform “uncontrollable” young women but   molestation,  punishments and humiliation occurred, mirroring the thousands of  cases of child abuse in institutional care that were recognised in the federal  government’s 2009 Apology to the Forgotten Australians.”

“The redevelopment of the site needs to respect past occupants, recognise  sufferings and wrongs and not be driven by commercial interests,”  a 1970 inmate  of Parramatta Girls Home and founder of Parragirls, Bonney Djuric, said. “The  site can have interpretation centres, research facilities, art studios and  memorial gardens.”
This call sounds familiar?