130,000 British Children Were Deported To Australia - Their Parents Were Told They Were Dead

"There were no ponies."

The Buried Era: Between 1920 and 1970 the British government deported 130,000 of its own children to Australia.

88% of them had living parents.

The parents were told their children had been placed for adoption somewhere in Britain. The children were told their parents were dead.

The letters were intercepted. The abuse was reported and ignored. The funding for the organization trying to reunite survivors was stopped.

It cost the British government £5 per day to keep a child in a British institution. It cost ten shillings in Australia. They were not saving children. They were cutting costs.

In 2009 the Australian government apologized. In 2010 the British government apologized. A 1998 parliamentary inquiry used the word stolen to describe what had been done.

Not one person was ever held accountable.

Everything in this video is drawn from documented sources including the 1998 British parliamentary inquiry, Child Migrants Trust records, Margaret Humphreys’ investigation, and official government apology records. This is not a theory. This is history that two governments have formally apologized for.

 

📌SOURCE LINKS 1. Child Migrants Trust — Official History childmigrantstrust.com 2. 1998 British Parliamentary Health Select Committee Inquiry parliament.uk 3. Australian Government Apology — Parliamentary Record November 16 2009 aph.gov.au 4. British Government Apology — Parliamentary Record February 24 2010 parliament.uk 5. Margaret Humphreys — Empty Cradles 1994 Available via major libraries and booksellers 6. Find and Connect — Child Migration Records Australia findandconnect.gov.au 7. National Archives Australia — Child Migration Records 1901-1983 naa.gov.au