These children had no family ties or contacts in Australia. Child migration schemes were run by charitable and religious organisations who held the belief that the lives of the children sent overseas would improve. They were supported by governments for which these schemes supplied much needed population and labour.While the outcomes for children varied, all experienced separation and displacement from family and homeland. The Australian Parliament delivered a formal apology to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants at a remembrance event in Canberra on Monday 16 November 2009.
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