National Archives of Australia
'Child Migration - visit by U.K. fact finding mission 1956' is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The travel itinerary of the Committee (pages 37-38) shows that they arrived in Canberra on 9 February 1956, visited New South Wales, then Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. They departed for the UK from Canberra on 19 March 1956. The file can be read online.
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On page 27, there is a timetable of inspections in Western Australia after the arrival of the Committee in the afternoon of Saturday 10 March 1956:
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 8 March 2013, Last modified: 26 November 2020