Kevin Rudd stories:
Australian Leader Apologizes for Child Migrants
Nov 16th, 2009 - New York Times
The children were gathered up by the tens of thousands, some of them as young as 3, taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for what was supposed to be a better start in life...Australia apologizes to Brit kids sent to colonies
Nov 16th, 2009 - AOL News
CANBERRA, Australia -When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school. Instead...
Australian apology 'long time coming'
Nov 16th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom were British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children.
Here...Australia's Rudd apologizes to forced child migrants
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday apologized to hundreds of thousands of children abused or neglected in institutions, including some 7,000 British children shipped to Australia after World War II...
PM Rudd apologizes to 'Forgotten Australians'
Nov 16th, 2009 - Press TV
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologized to 'Forgotten Australians' who, for years, faced sexual abuse, violence and forced labor.
Under the old Child Migrants Program between 1930 and 1970...



