Long Lost Family: Shipped to Australia on ABC and ABC iview – A Long Lost Family special highlighting the scandal of thousands of unaccompanied British children shipped out to Australia in the middle of the 20th century.
The children were sent on the promise of a better life, but instead found themselves in badly run institutions suffering poor education, neglect and often physical and sexual abuse, whilst all ties were severed from their families and their country back home.
This special episode follows the search of one of those children wondering where he came from and who his family were. And we meet a man, whose younger brothers were sent to Tasmania as late as 1970.
Long Lost Family: Shipped to Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 30 December at 7.30pm
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