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A 5 year old, I was sent to Australia, alone. Pam Wright on The Cardi-Girls
Pam Wright was a stolen English child who was sent out to Australia at age 5 as a migrant. Pam features in the book 'Empty Cradles'.
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated the case of a woman who claimed that, at the age of four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. Margaret Humphreys soon discovered that as many as 150,000 children had in fact been deported from children's homes in Britian and shipped off to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire—the last as recently as 1967.Now a major movie named 'Oranges and Sunshine', is a…
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