My brother Randall was abused and raped in Wolston Park Mental Hospital.
If you were a victim of sexual assault as a child in Wolston Park Mental Hospital, or any other institution, you can apply for compensation. You can do this through the redress scheme.
If you want to apply for access to your health records through a Right to Information Request, click here.
If they deny you access or only provide heavily redacted copies, you can appeal to the Office of the Commissioner of Information.
That’s what I had to do to access my brother’s Wolston Park records.
Thankyou for all you all did towards attaining some closure for us and our loved ones. I participated in the Review but have been a lifelong sufferer of Complex Post Traumatic Stress related illness since my birth whilst my beloved mum was incarcerated there for undiagnosed Alcoholic illness. The Trauma induced by the Queensland government has been severe and life long for me and i lost all of my 11-13 siblings also. I don’t have any remaining strength to pursue an apology and I’m quite sure the Australian Government will never apologise for what happened to me and my family anyway.
I don’t think my participation was beneficial for my healing as I experienced re traumatisation during the process which appears to have caused permanent damage to my mental and physical health. At this stage I feel that some trauma, grief and unnecessary suffering can never be healed.
Shame on those who committed those atrocious crimes against humanity and peace.
Thankyou for fighting to allow the opportunity,…
Dee Baker
I tried a couple of years ago for that and was told by them it was closed and directed to Redress at Canberra.
If you were a Child in Wolston Park or any Adult Facility/Asylum attached to a hospital in QLD Whilst you were under ‘State Care’ please contact Lotus Place on (07) 3347 8500, you may be eligible to apply for “Reconciliation Plan”, Reconciliation plan is a specific Validation for Wards of the state who were wrongly placed in an Adult Facility/Asylum provided by QLD Health, kind regards, David Selah
Thanks for adding this important information to the post, David.
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