The Forgotten Children
Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2008
Summary
In 1959, David Hill’s mother, a poor single parent living in England, reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales. She was led to believe that her sons would receive a good education and have a better life. David was lucky; his mother was able to follow him to Australia. However, for most children, the reality was shockingly different.
From 1938 to 1974, thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairb…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781741666144 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1741666147 |
| Author: | David Hill |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
David Hill
David Hill’s distinguished career includes roles as chairman then managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; chairman of the Australian Football Association; chief executive of the State Rail Authority; chairman of Sydney Water Corporation; and chairman of CREATE (an organisation representing Australian children in institutional care). He has also held a number of other executive appointments in the areas of sport, transport, broadcasting, fiscal management and city parks. In 2006 he was awarded a Diploma of Arts with merit in classical archaeology from Sydney University. He is an honorary associate at the Sydney University departments of archaeology, classics and ancient history, and a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales. Since 2011 he has been the manager of an archaeological study of the ancient Greek city of Troizen. He has for many years been a leading figure in the international campaign to have the Parthenon sculptures returned from the British Museum to Greece.
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