The Latest Breaking News from Kinchela

Healing call as centenary marked at notorious boys home

Stolen Generations survivors are calling for Kinchela Boys Home to become a place of truth-telling and healing on the institution's 100th anniversary.

AAP · Oct 18, 2024

NSW boys home grounds to be explored after possible ‘clandestine’ human burial sites revealed

Government move to engage archaeological specialists comes after ‘suspicious’ locations identified at Kinchela Aboriginal institution

The Guardian - AU · Jul 26, 2024

NSW government funds investigations into possible clandestine burials at three Stolen Generations sites

Search widens beyond Kinchela boys’ home to include Cootamundra girls’ home and Bomaderry infants’ home

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2024

‘Taken to hell’: even today survivors of Kinchela boys’ home are known by their numbers

Former residents recall being flogged, chained to a tree overnight, told they weren’t Aboriginal or that their parents were dead. Many have been traumatised for life

The Guardian - AU · Sep 7, 2023

Revealed: multiple sites of possible secret graves discovered at Stolen Generations institution for children

Exclusive: former residents of Kinchela, near Kempsey, call on NSW government to excavate site after ground-penetrating radar picked up at least nine suspicious anomalies

The Guardian - AU · Sep 7, 2023

‘I died in that place’: survivors of NSW’s Kinchela Aboriginal boys home seek truth and reconciliation

Stolen generations survivors Uncle Roger Jarrett and Uncle Richard Campbell hope the reality of life at the home is never forgotten

The Guardian - AU · May 26, 2023