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Western Australia - Event
Inquiry into child migration (2000 - 2001)
- From
- 2000
- To
- 2001
- Website
- http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/1999-02/child_migrat/index
On 20 June 2000, on the motion of Senator Andrew Murray, the Senate referred the issue of child migration to the Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report. In their submission to the inquiry, the Western Australian Department for Family and Children's Services stated that 1,290 child migrants were sent to WA prior to World War II and that 1,651 children were sent under the post-war migration schemes. Most were sent to charitable and religious institutions. Many child migrants later claimed that they were ill-treated in the institutions to which they were sent. The resulting report Lost innocents: righting the record - inquiry into child migration was tabled on 30 August 2001.
Publications
Books
- Bean, Philip and Melville, Joy, Lost Children of the Empire, Unwin Hyman, London, 1990. Details
- Humphreys, Laurie, A Chip off What Block?, Laurie Humphreys, Samson, Western Australia, 2007. Details
- Humphreys, Margaret, Empty Cradles, Doubleday, London; Sydney, 1994. Details
- Humphreys, Margaret, Oranges and Sunshine, Corgi, London, 2010. Details
- Plowman, David, Enduring Struggle, Scholastic Press Australia, Broadway, Nedlands, Western Australia, 2003. Details
Online Resources
- 'Senator Andrew Murray', in Parliament of Australia website, Commonwealth of Australia, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22handbook%2Fallmps%2F3M6%22. Details
- 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Health Committee on 11 June 1998', in Health - Third Report, House of Commons Health Committee, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 June 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/8061101.htm. Details
- 'Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations', University of Birmingham, 2009, https://web.archive.org/web/20090316042456/http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/index.htm. Details
- Welcome Walls, Western Australian Museum, 2011, http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/welcomewalls. Details
- Australian Democrat Speeches, Senator Andrew Murray speaks at the 1st International Congress on Child Migration, Australian Democrats, 28 October 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20120325211727/http://www.democrats.org.au/speeches/index.htm?speech_id=1035&display=1. Details
- Coldrey, Barry, Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, National Archives of Australia, 1999, https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/research-guides/good-british-stock-child-and-youth-migration-australia. Details
- Health Committee, House of Commons, 'Inquiry into Child Migration was a recommendation of the Third Report.', Health - Third Report, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 23 July 1998, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmhealth/755/75502.htm. Details
- Health Committee, House of Commons, First Special Report: Welfare of Former British Child Migrants, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 13 March 2001, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmhealth/152/15206.htm. Details
- Parliament of Australia Senate, Lost Innocents: Righting the Record Report on Child Migration, Community Affairs References Committee, Senate Printing Unit, Canberra, 2001, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/completed_inquiries/1999-02/child_migrat/report/index.htm. Details
- Senate Community Affairs Committee, 'Inquiry into child migration', in Parliament of Australia website, Commonwealth of Australia, 2001, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/completed_inquiries/1999-02/child_migrat/submissions/sublist.htm. Details
- Senate Community Affairs References Committee Secretariat, Parliament of Australia, Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Revisited: Report on the progress with the implementation of the recommendations of the Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Reports, Parliament of Australia website, Commonwealth of Australia, 25 June 2009, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2008-10/recs_lost_innocents_forgotten_aust_rpts/report/index. Details
Photos
- Title
- Murray, Andrew
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1996 - 2007
- Source
- Parliament of Australia
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