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Forgotten Australians enter the Great Hall, Parliament House

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Guests in the Great Hall, Parliament House, during the apology and address from the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd MP.

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Forgotten Australians, during formal proceedings of the National Apology.

Forgotten Australians, during formal proceedings of the National Apology.

Later, flowers were laid in remembrance of those who had passed away. ‘Anecdotal evidence has shown an abnormally large percentage of suicides among care leavers’ (The Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Forgotten Australians, 2004, xvi).

Trish Charter and Gail Favaloro

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Graeme Bradley and Kevin Parker

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Apology and address from the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd MP

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Former child migrants: Jon Holmes, John Merrigan and Maurice Crawford-Raby

This image was included on the Forgotten Australians – Our History website, on the Apology page.

Advice of admission of a child to an institution and claim for additional child endowment

This is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.