Museum recalls horrors of orphanage care
EIGHT words on an old, hand-painted sign in Bankstown's National Orphanage Museum poignantly captures eight decades of Australia's care for unwanted children: ''Visitors are requested not to touch the babies.'' Malcolm Turnbull turned away from the sign yesterday and walking past the old painted cot, tarnished sports cups and photographs of orphanages and homes, many now infamous for child abuse, he stopped at an open suitcase.
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