Lost Innocents Report

The Australian Senate Community Affairs Committee released its report relating to child migration schemes to Australia in the twentieth century, through which children from Britain and Malta were transported without their or their families’ consent to Australian institutions.

Instigated by Australian Senator Andrew Murray, himself a former child migrant forcibly removed from Britain to Zimbabwe, in response to “a number of calls from different groups and individuals for an independent national inquiry into child migration to Australia” (section 1.12, Lost Innocents Report). In particular the International Association of Former CHild Migrants and their Families had advocated effectively for the inquiry (Section 1.12).