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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Home Girls Have Their Say
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Parramatta Girls Alana Valentine , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1192242 2007 single work drama (taught in 3 units)

    'The Parramatta Girls Training School operated from 1889 to its close in the late 1970s as a state home for 'uncontrollable' girls. Under the guise of 'reforming' them, these teenagers were subjected to mental, emotional and physical brutality. It was a start in life that was metered out to vulnerable, uniformly poor and frequently indigenous women. 'Parramatta Girls' is based on verbatim accounts of the women who were incarcerated at the Parramatta Girls Training School.'

    Source: Belvoir Street Theatre website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/

    Sighted: 09/05/2005

         Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007     pg. vii-x
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian 19 March 2007 Z1450586 2007 newspaper issue 2007 pg. 20
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