Child migrant apology on display

24 AUGUST 2010

An official copy of the Australian Government’s apology to child migrants in the 1900s will be displayed at the Learning Commons at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange.  With many Central West residents holding strong memories of Fairbridge Farm in Molong - one of the locations where child migrants from the United Kingdom were housed - the apology offered many a sense of closure to a dark time in Australia’s history. “Charles Sturt University in Orange is pleased to have this framed apology on display,” Head of Campus in Orange Professor Kevin Parton said. “It is an important part of our modern history and serves as a reminder to those studying here that events like this have happened.” The child migrants were from care institutions in the UK. Agencies involved in the child migration were Barnados and Fairbridge as well as agencies representing the Catholic and Protestant churches. Child and youth migration to NSW ended in 1967.

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