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History of Forgotten Australians[edit]

This seems like a good first start for the article, but as a non-Australian (though living in Melbourne), I'm not really familiar with the history. The news article about the apology today which lead me to look this up seemed to indicate that a number of child immigrants were sent to Australia from England - but didn't say whether they were sent by themselves, or why they were sent. Does anyone have more information about this? Truncat (talk) 02:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article was written as a start given the Forgotten Australians to date have been unknown to wikipedians. The best source of information is the details in the official reports in the links. The news reports all have slightly different views which diverge from what I have read in the official reports. Most of the people concerned are children in orphanages who suffered abuse. They weren't necessarily taken. They were certainly abused. No doubt others will flesh out the article over time. --Blouis79 (talk) 09:09, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article gives the number of child migrants who are included in the Forgotten Australians as 130,000. This can't be right. I assume it refers to the total number of child migrants who went to the various countries that received them as referred to in the relevant Wikipedia article (to which there's a link right beside the erroneous number). I'm going to alter the number to 7,000, which is I believe correct. 120.144.39.68 (talk) 10:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Raw numbers without expanations[edit]

"The inquiry found from a potential 924 names that 391 children had died in state care." What does this mean? That only 391 out of 500,000 died? That seems to low for natural causes alone. That out of 924 that the checked 391 had died? That would be very high but why would they have only checked so few? That 924 were thought to have died but most didn't, that is equally strange.

Was anyone convicted of these crimes?, any proved in court?, etc. 75.41.110.200 (talk) 16:56, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A reasons to fight this horror :

Why the police not arrest this criminals in justice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.230.65.225 (talk) 20:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone not make action to defense them all!

we can call the police or FBI! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.230.65.225 (talk) 15:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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MISSING TEXT IN INTRO[edit]

There is an apparent editing glitch in the main article's opening line, resulting in missing text of unknown length. As I have no idea what's missing nor how to find out, can someone please fix it? Cheers 2001:8003:4057:8C01:B118:5CED:E645:F726 (talk) 05:54, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]