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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Apology to Australia's 'forgotten children'

Forgotten Australians: 1923: Boys from Dr. Barnado's children leaving Britain to Australia
1923: Boys from Dr Barnado's homes for children have their first ship's rations aboard the Largo Bay en route from Britain to Australia Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
Forgotten Australians: 1933: British children at the Fairbridge Farm School Australia
1933: Hundreds of children from the UK were sent to Australia under the auspices of the Child Emigration Society. The Fairbridge farm school at Pinjarra, Western Australia, was a community where boys were taught farm work and handicrafts and girls learned house work and dairy farming Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
Forgotten Australians: 1934: British children at the Fairbridge Farm School Australia
1934: Children from the Fairbridge farm school at Pinjarra listen to a speech by the Duke of Gloucester Photograph: Getty Images
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans reading in the common room in Parramatta, Australia
1953: Children reading in the common room at Melrose House near Parramatta, Sydney Photograph: National Archives of Australia/AFP
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British Orphans at Melrose House near Parramatta, Australia.
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: National Archives Of Australia/EPA
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans posing for a photo at Melrose House, Australia
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: AP
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans milking a cow Parramatta, Australia
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: National Archives of Australia/AFP
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans working in a garden at Melrose House, Australia
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: National Archives of Australia/AP
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans preparing for bed at Parramatta, Australia
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: National Archives of Australia/AFP
Forgotten Australians: 1953: British orphans at Melrose House, near Parramatta, Australia
1953: Life at Melrose House Photograph: National Archives of Australia/AP
Forgotten Australians: Australian PM Kevin Rudd apology to Forgotten Australians, Canberra
Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, makes his apology speech at Parliament House in Canberra Photograph: Alan Porritt/EPA
Forgotten Australians: Australia's PM Kevin Rudd after giving apology to forgotten Australians
Kevin Rudd comforts one of the victims Photograph: Reuters
Forgotten Australians: Australian PM Kevin Rudd at a ceremony to apologise to child migrants
Kevin Rudd talks with those attending his apology speech Photograph: Mark Graham/AP
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