Hi,

After a somewhat difficult week in relation to my site I can upload material again. Last Tuesday and Wednesday our computer was attacked with viruses. As a result, I could not upload anything on my site, nor work on our computer. Later extracts from texts were removed, which was creepy. Then on Thursday and Friday as we were resolving this problem the site ‘disappeared’ completely…… But now I can upload material again, so there’s a new drawing and a film I’d like to suggest Oranges and Sunshine by Jim Loach based on Margaret Humphrey’s book, which refers to the Forgotten Australians, the thousands of children migrants, adults today, who were deported from England to Australia, especially during the 1950s and 1960s. Humphrey wrote ‘when Jim Loach first asked to make a film based on Empty Cradles, I was concerned that the lives of former child migrants should be captured on the big screen in all their complex humanity. I must confess that I dreaded seeing myself, my family and my colleagues twisted out of shape to suit the drama. My fears were unfounded. I would have been its fiercest critic if it had fallen short, but Jim’s film, Oranges and Sunshine, is sensitive, compelling , finely crafted and absolutely true to the spirit of this book’(2011, Empty Cradles, Kindle Edition).

Tonya Kyriazis-Alexandri

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