[2] "The Magdalene Laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society.

In 2009, an official Australian government apology[6] was made to people who had grown up in the institutional system, including former child immigrants to Australia.

[8] Writer and author Merlene Fawdry gives insight into the daily operation of Mount Saint Canice in My Magdalene Home.

[9] Janice Konstantinidis, guest author for the Australian National Museum, 28 February 2011, shares a current photograph, as well as her detailed history of her time from the age of 12 working in the Magdalene laundry of Mount Saint Canice, nicknamed "The Mag."

In 2008, in the Australian Parliament, Senator Andrew Murray likened the Convent of the Good Shepherd, "The Pines," Adelaide, to a prisoner-of-war camp.

We are deeply sorry for acts of verbal or physical cruelty that occurred: such things should never have taken place in a Good Shepherd facility.