The future of Callan Park still hangs in the balance. The re-elected NSW state government has assigned the administration of Callan Park to Rob Stokes, the new Minister for Planning and Public Places. But the ownership of the site remains with NSW Health department whose minister is Brad …
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Briefing note for Minister for Health, the Hon Brad Hazzard MLA Background: Friends of Callan Park (FOCP) forward this Briefing Note of Seven Priorities for government action at Callan Park in response to the Minister’s personal invitation to do so. The ownership of Callan …
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Launched at our AGM, our newest publication – Broughton Hall – Brought to Life describes in text and beautiful colour photos the history of Broughton Hall. Once a private estate, used in the wartime by the Red Cross and then developed into a voluntary psychiatric clinic, today …
On 21 June 2018 our local MP, Jamie Parker held a public meeting regarding the draft Landscape Structure Plan at Callan Park. The Office of Environment & Heritage (OEH) made a presentation describing the rationale for the plan and providing some high level details. Specifically to create an …
Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of real care or release. But what was the reality faced by the ‘insane’ in nineteenth-century New …
[Read more...] about Callan Park: Hospital for the Insane by Sarah Luke
