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Radio & Podcast The indestructible nature of Corey White Corey White 2019 A childhood of abuse and neglect led award-winning Corey White to an unusual place - the stage - via foster care and boarding school. His wit and resilience make his stand-up comedy sharply observed and darkly humorous External Website

Authors M Michelangelo ➝ Yusuf P McCormack ➝ Back to Top

Authors T Alan Turing ➝ Back to Top

Authors E Australian singer ➝ Aboriginal Australian, Singer, songrwriter ➝ Back to Top

Authors U Untamed ➝ Upper Middle Bogan ➝ Unorthodox ➝ Unforgiven ➝ Unforgotten ➝ Until I Kill You ➝ United States of Tara ➝ Under the Bridge ➝ Unbelievable ➝ Unsettled ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Auntie Mame 1958 Patrick Dennis, orphaned in 1928 when his father Edwin dies unexpectedly, is placed in the care of his aunt Mame Dennis in Manhattan. Mame is flamboyant and exuberant, hosting frequent parties with a variety of guests and free-spirited friends Mr. Babcock (Fred Clark), Patrick's assigned executor, objects to Mame's unconventional way of living and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school. As Mame and Patrick grow closer, Mr. Babcock tries to discipline Patrick and threatens to separate the two if Mame does not comply with his wishes. External Website

Actors Jamie Foxx Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, television presenter, and record producer. And adoptee, Foxx became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. Foxx was given his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001 on The WB Television Network. Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician. External Website

Actors Aaron Pedersen Aaron Pedersen (born 24 November 1970) is an Australian television and film actor of Arrernte and Arabana Australian Aboriginal descent. Aaron and his seven siblings were in and out of foster care in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory as children. Aaron left Alice Springs for Melbourne as a young man after he was accepted to intern at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Pedersen’s acting career began when he starred in Heartland (1994). The following year he co-hosted game show Gladiators Australia and performed the role of Vince Cellini in Wildside in 1997. Aaron Pedersen has played a number of characters in popular Australian television series, including Detective Senior Constable Michael Reilly in Water Rats (1996-2001), Detective Senior Constable Duncan Freeman in City Homicide (2007-2012), Cam Delray in the Jack Irish series (2016-2021), and Detective Jay Swan in Mystery Road (2018, 2020). Aaron is the primary carer for his younger brother, Vincent, who has cerebral palsy. External Website

Television Shows Payback 2023 Payback (2023) is a crime thriller set in Edinburgh. When Lexie Noble’s (Morven Christie) husband is murdered, she gets caught up in an organised crime money-laundering scheme. Lexie becomes a prime suspect for her husband’s murder when the police realise she was convicted of a crime at the age of 15 and locked up in secure care for a time. Lexie insists she did not commit either crime, not the crime she was convicted of nor the current one. External Website

Films/Videos Never Let Me Go (film) 2010 Based on the 2005 novel by Kasuo Ishiguro, the film tells the story of orphan children raised exclusively in a boarding school or children's home and whose task in life is to provide organs for members of the community the children rarely if ever see. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles "Intentional Neglect." On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England Lit Hub (Montgomery) 2024 In this Lit Hub article, Heather Montgomery explores the beginnings of the child protection system in the UK. She argues that it was during the Victoria era that childhood began to be intensely scrutinized. It was also during the Victorian era when it was decided that if a home did not meet the “middle-class norms of morality and decency” it was “seen as neglectful and the best course of action deemed to be separation from their children.” Montgomery goes on to show that neglect of a child had “become a criminal offence in 1868” although few parents were actually prosecuted. When parents were prosecuted, says Montgomery, “women, and mothers in particular, [were] more likely to be found guilty than men or their middle-class peers, and more likely to receive heavier sentences”. External Website

Films/Videos Sleepers 1996 Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name. In the summer of 1967, 4 friends living in Hell's Kitchen, New York, accidently injure a man while they are stealing from a hot dog vendor. The boys are sentences to Wilkinson Home for Boys where they are brutalised. 13 years later, 2 of the boys, confront one of the former guards, killing him in front of witnesses. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Conversations with Myself Nelson Mandela 2011 From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Abraham Lincoln: A Life Michael Burlingame 2008 The first biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Michael Burlingame explores Lincoln's early childhood in Part 1 and in Part 2, examines Lincoln's life during his presidency. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Strangers Katherena Vermette 2021 Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers. From a youth detention centre, Phoenix gives birth to a baby she’ll never get to raise and tries to forgive herself for all the harm she’s caused (while wondering if she even should). Elsie, struggling with addiction and determined to turn her life around, is buoyed by the idea of being reunited with her daughters and strives to be someone they can depend on, unlike her own distant mother. These are the Strangers, each haunted in her own way. Between flickering moments of warmth and support, the women diverge and reconnect, fighting to survive in a fractured system that pretends to offer success but expects them to fail. Facing the distinct blade of racism from those they trusted most, they urge one another to move through the darkness, all the while wondering if they’ll ever emerge safely on the other side. External Website

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Films/Videos Gosford Park 2001 Gosford Park is a movie starring Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, and Michael Gambon. The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate the murder of the property owner. Clive Owens plays the role of a valet who grew up in an orphange. External Website

Television Shows Thou Shalt Not Steal 2024 Thou Shalt Not Steal (2024) is an Australian black comedy featuring the escape from youth detention of 17-year-old Aboriginal protagonist Robyn (Sherry-Lee Watson) who declares as she leaves: “Them missionaries reckon thou shalt not steal. Bit rich from the Bible-bashing bastards that stole our country!” Robyn teams up with Gidge (Will McDonald), the son of unscrupulous bible-bashing Robert (Noah Taylor) and the pair go in search for the father Robyn has never met. Robyn and Gidge are chased from Alice Springs to Adelaide by Robert and Maxine (Miranda Otto), a former sex worker turned cabbie & drug dealer. “Thou Shalt Not Steal has future classic written all over it” writes Luke Buckmaster in The Guardian (17 October 2024). External Website

Plays & Musicals featuring Care Exp Miss Saigon Clade-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil 1989 A principal character in the stage musical, Miss Saigon (1989), Kim, is an orphan. Miss Saigon opens with Kim, 17 years old and from a rural area, beginning her first day as a bar girl. She is taunted by the other girls and women because she is inexperienced. A US soldier, Chris, falls in love with Kim—and she with him—but Chris returns to the US without her. External Website

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