Joanna Penglase

Joanna Penglase grew up in a Children’s Home in Sydney in the post war era. She is the author of “Orphans of the Living” Growing up in ‘care’ in 20th century Australia (Curtin Uni Books/Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005) and the co-founder of CLAN, a support and advocacy organisation for people who grew up in orphanages and Children’s Homes. CLAN helped to establish the 2004 Senate Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care.