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Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Episode 1 in a series about the ‘Bad Girls’ of the Newcastle Industrial School and Reformatory. Jane Ison describes life in NSW in the 1860s and 70s and the measures taken by the government and the courts to deal with ‘problem’ children.
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Poor, disenfranchised girls is right. One of those young girls was my great grandmother, a good person by all reports who was treated very poorly.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
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