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In honour of Francesca and Randall- Suicide Victims From Wolston Park
A podcast by Professor Selena Bartlett Neuroscientist, brain health and fitness leader and advocate, Professor, author, speaker In honour of Francesca and Randall. Join Kerry Carrington and I on the Thriving minds podcast-link in the comments. Our siblings, Francesca and Randall, were both made ward of the state at Wolston Park in 1970’s and 1980’s. This interview…
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Dr Jo Besley, Curator of Remembering Goodna reflects on the historical human impact of Wolston Park Mental Hospital
The records of Wolston Park Mental Hospital are secret for 100 years. Cover up or not? Listen to the podcast and make up your own mind. In this Podcast Dr Jo Besley talks us through her journey of curating Remembering Goodna, an exhibition at the Brisbane Museum in 2007 and 2008. Goodna is one of…
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Randall’s Story
My brother Randall Scott Carrington was made a state ward, first admitted as an involuntary patient into Lowson House Mental Ward, Brisbane Hospital, then Wolston Park Mental Hospital 1978 to 1979. He was given 36 rounds of shock treatment, copious experimental psychotic drug treatments, abused, raped, escaped, returned, punished, secluded in solitary confinement, and effectively…
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Remembering Randall Podcast Series, Calls for an Inquiry into Wolston Park Mental Hospital
This podcast series Remembering Randall advocates for an inquiry into the many atrocities that occurred at Wolston Park Mental Hospital. Tigger warnings & comments will be modified if they name individuals in a disparaging way.
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Randall the Poet
The Descent of Man Georgie Porgie sweet sugared cocaine Missed the girls Because they never came back again They live in their own wizardry worlds With nothing to hide the feeling inside I suppose that’s why they call them girls But somewhere in their infantry heads There lie’s the thoughts of making beds Cotton threads…
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Wolston Park Mental Hospital: A Site of Mass Atrocities
Wolston Park Hospital was erected at Wacol in the mid 19th century at a time of the rise of the asylum everywhere over the ‘modern’ world. Over 155 years in excess of 50,000 inmates were confined in that sprawling institution, most involuntarily. Relocated due to flooding and rebuilt, it had been constantly renamed over…
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Randall’s Story
My brother Randall Scott Carrington was detained involuntarily in Wolston Park Hospital 1978 to 1979. He was given 36 rounds of shock treatment, copious experimental psychotic drug treatments and effectively chemically castrated. He suicided at 20. Qld State Archives have refused me permission to access my brother’s case files, as the files of patients like…
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Submissions to Inquiry into State Archives
You can make a submission to a State Government Inquiry into the Public Records Act until 30 June 2022. Click Here. https://www.chde.qld.gov.au/about/initiatives/review-of-public-records-act It is time that the public records act is amended to allow former patients and relatives of patients deceased access to their institutional files at Wolston Park Mental Hospital. Hiding these records for…
Remembering Randall
My brother Randall was an involuntary patient in Walston Park Mental Hospital in 1970s.