Australia’S Shame: A Collaboration by Diane Mancuso and Simon Houlders

By Diane Mancuso and Simon Houlders

Australia's Shame A Collaboration by Diane Mancuso and Simon Houlders

True stories not to be missed
Read the horrific true stories of Diane Mancuso and Simon Houlders
You will be enthralled, captivated by the raw emotion that jumps off the pages

The hypocrisy of the State that charmed the public into believing that these children who had been removed from their families were going to be better off. Secretly and shamefully the children were treated with contempt, exploited and abused. Diane recounts in 'Lynwood Hall' her experiences of her time in care.
Diane's father's treacherous two-faced perfidiousness had no bounds and caused her great pain and regret.
Simon's brutal honesty and beliefs challenge and question, even ridicule, society's philosophies on his views.
Explore his concepts of the inspirational story of 'Three Generations of suffering.'
Both authors have unique skills that will take you on a journey that will evoke your own imagination to share in their pastimes.

'Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.'

Oscar Wilde

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Mar 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493133413

Diane Mancuso

Author Biography coming up soon

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Copyright © 2014 by Diane Mancuso and Simon Houlders.

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Contents

After the Illusion

Against My Will

Ethan

Aleayah

All Things Good

Aussie Slang

Autumn

Before the illusion

Betrayal

Billy, Billy

My Sweet Brother

Bully—1st Scenario

Run and Hide

Bully—2nd Scenario

A Time to Kill

Bully—3rd Scenario

Suicide

Bully—4th Scenario

Ideal Attitude

Commemoration

Life and Love in Retrospect

Confession

(My Deep Dark Secret)

Deliver Me from Evil

Dreamscape

Faith

Falling

Hypocrites

I Can Only Assume

Love, Lies and Redemption

Maria, Maria

My Best Friend

Mothers Day Poem

Moving On

My First Toy

Lynwood Hall

People Lost and Found

Rapist

So Many Doors

Suffering is a Lesson

(For You to Learn)

Preyed on Innocence, Took Innocence, and Left a Lifetime of Heartache

The Nightmare Begins

The Norm

The State

Little girl lost

The Visitor

Three Generations of Suffering

Where Has Love Gone?

Infinite Possibility

Born to the State

Some of this information was taken from the www.clan.org.au

Awareness/Education

Australia’s shame

My reason for including this in this book is to raise awareness of our plight. So much of the public are still unaware. In addition, to raise consciousness of our past situation and its effects. So that what happened to us as state wards and home children becomes as well known as the experiences of the ‘stolen generations’, child migrants and adoptees

‘Forgotten Australians’

CLAN-is an organisation that was established in July 2000 by Leonie Sheedy and Joanna Penglase

The formation was to raise awareness of the issues, and needs of five hundred thousand children removed from their families by the ‘State’

After two Senate Inquiries and an apology from Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull

In 2009

Words are easy to say action is what is needed if their apology was to be sincere then why do we remain forgotten?

We continue to be sanguine though little has changed. The politicians of this country can ignore the past but we are not going away and will continue to fight for recognition

As little as two thousand four hundred and twenty five to an unlikely fifty thousand Stolen Generation were removed from their families. This information can easily be attained from the web

Even so, it is a long way off from five hundred thousand white children, who were removed never to see their families again. We are the forgotten survivors of a past child welfare system which deprived us of a sense of identity, of self-worth, and of a rightful place in our society.

The wheels of justice are turning very slowly though we will never give up on our struggles. To gain recognition and hold the very people accountable that perpetrated such atrocities against little children.

If we can get through our childhoods then we can fight these bureaucrats with ease

The Royal Commission into sexual assault that took place in orphanages, foster homes has taken up the reigns and have begun to listen to our stories

Chronicle

I just wanted to share a little background on myself with my readers this is my first stab at writing. The book is a blend of stories, poems and political matters it has been a challenge to choose which genre to file it under I figured the best category for this project is to put it under non-fiction

Throughout my life, I had little connection with my family. I was fostered by two different families they both had ulterior motives the first one I was to be their daughters play mate. The second family saw me as a kid they could sexually abuse. I made the mistake of notifying ‘The Child Welfare. What takes place is in the story of ‘Lynwood Hall’ is a true account of what happened to me—it taught me a very valuable lesson—not to admit to anyone what was happening in my life.

I have always enjoyed writing and all of my stories are true, though I seemed to be always in trouble at school. And, spent most of my time at the principal’s office getting disciplined which really did not do much for me. I was born stubborn and determined these traits would often be a source of frustration to others. An example of this was when I read my DOCS file and the remark Never met a tougher nut can’t crack her was written up by a physiologist I believe I was all of thirteen.

I would not conform to their established rules.

Instead of allowing my childhood to dominate my life, I learnt to become indomitable not to be another statistic

If you are curious to find out what happened in my life I am in the process of writing

‘Born to the State’

Dedications

For all the readers that felt alone, abandoned as children and were treated so cruelly

‘Do not ever give up on yourselves’.

‘You can make it’

"I did’—‘so can you’

I searched for forty years to find my sister I found her on the other side of the world in the United Kingdom. Bonnie, I really believe we had a helping hand from above when Simon my nephew spotted that blurb on the Connecting Kin site

"Bonnie you