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From this he developed a further interest in the skulls of mentally deficient children. From here he became a consultant psychiatrist to the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital in Parkville, close to the University of Melbourne. He was a proponent of eugenics, supporting the killing of "the grosser types of our mental defectives". [4]
The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in Ancient Greece and Rome . The height of the modern eugenics movement came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Medley was a member of the Eugenics Society of Victoria, an organisation credited with justifying the White Australia Policy and the removal of Aboriginal children. In the mid-2010s there was a campaign by students at both Melbourne and Monash universities to rename this building [1] and the John Medley Library at Monash's Clayton campus. [8]
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A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...
Medley Hall, the smallest residential college of the University of Melbourne, was named in Medley's honour in 1955. [4] Medley was a member of the Eugenics Society of Victoria, an organisation which, among other things, justified the White Australia Policy and the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. [5]
The Stock Exchange of Melbourne and the Victorian Economy 1852-1900 (Australian National University Press, 1968) Lewis, Miles Bannatyne. Melbourne: the city's history and development (City of Melbourne, 1995). Lockwood, Rupert. Ship to Shore: A History of Melbourne's Waterfront and its Union Struggles (Hale & Iremonger, 1990) Logan, William S.
Gerard Kennedy Tucker OBE (18 February 1885 – 24 May 1974, sometimes referred to as G. Kennedy Tucker, [1] was an Anglican priest in Melbourne, Australia. Tucker founded the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 1930 and the forerunner of Oxfam Australia in 1953.