Children Shipped to Australia To Get Formal Apology, I should think so!

Children shipped to Australia with all the lies and deceit, only then to be compounded by the cruelty and abuse, was surely criminal?

As someone now of retirement age, I find it inconceivable that this process was still going on when I was young man and didn’t stop until I was 29.

The degree of emotional wreckage this must have caused to those involved must be off the Richter scale.

Those who suffered must be listened to and given the help they need.

But what does seem to me to be unavoidably true is that this process, conducted over so many years, eclipses those published abuses against children for which the Catholic Church was responsible.

This policy was known to National Governments and yet it still went on until 1970. And the discovery that children’s care charities knew about it and took part in it beggars belief!

Yes, we understand the cognitive effect of varying forms of abuse on children much better than we did 40 and more years ago. However we must all insist that the full details are made public. Only when the truth is out can we hope to help effectively those who were so abused and mislead.

That Gordon Brown is making an apology should be welcomed, but we should make certain that none of us allow knowingly any similar thing again either on a national or local basis