Australia 'regrets' suffering of migrants 

 Canberra announces reparations for British children transported under postwar
 policy to send 'good white stock' abroad 

 Thousands of people who were physically and sexually abused after being sent to
 Australia as child migrants won some recognition of their mistreatment yesterday
 when the Australian government expressed its regret for their "injustice and
 suffering." 

 During the migration scheme - described by a House of Commons select committee
 as "Britain's shameful secret" - children as young as three were sent to Australia
 from 1946 to the early 1970s in the misplaced belief they would have a better life
 than in cash-strapped British care homes.

 While Australia may have believed it was doing its duty by helping British orphans,
 many of the children were not orphaned and were sent without their parents'
 knowledge. A more sinister motive was also at play, with specialist agencies such
 as the Fairbridge Society being established to populate the empire with "good white
 British stock". 

 Once in Australia, many remained in institutions where they were raped, whipped,
 stripped of their names and some forced to do hard labour.

 Sarah Hall
 Tuesday May 14, 2002
 The Guardian 

 www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,715087,00.html

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 "Perceptions" note:-

 Are we surprised to find that people in authority in Australia - just like those
 in positions of power in England - prove to be bullying criminal perverts?

 Evidence file for
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