Reckoning
The forgotten children and their quest for justice
$34.00
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2022
Summary
The story of how David Hill and the other Forgotten Children took on the institutions that tried to break them - and won.
The Forgotten Children was David Hill’s heartbreaking account of the abuse that he and other ‘orphans of empire’ survived at the Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales. Part memoir, part oral history, the book became a bestseller. It was also the catalyst in a subsequent battle for justice, which resulted in the Fairbridge kids being awarded a record $2…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761045523 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761045520 |
| Author: | David Hill |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 518g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
David Hill
David Hill’s career includes roles as chairman then managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; chairman of the Australian Football Association; chief executive of the State Rail Authority; chairman of Sydney Water Corporation; and chairman of CREATE (an organisation representing Australian children in institutional care).
He has also held a number of other executive appointments in the areas of sport, transport, broadcasting, fiscal management and city parks.
In 2006 he was awarded a Diploma of Arts with merit in classical archaeology from Sydney University. He is an honorary associate at the Sydney University departments of archaeology, classics and ancient history, and a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales.
Since 2011 he has been the manager of an archaeological study of the ancient Greek city of Troizen. He has for many years been a leading figure in the international campaign to have the Parthenon sculptures returned from the British Museum to Greece.
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