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Child migration - visit to Australia by U.K. fact finding mission Feb 1956 re upbringing in Australia of migrant children unaccompanied by their parents, National Archives of Australia

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Reference Number

Quote this number to access your records: National Archives of Australia Reference Number, D400, SA1955/8761

Records Location

These records are held by National Archives of Australia (1998 - current).

Details

‘Child Migration – visit by U.K. fact finding mission 1956’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The travel itinerary of the Committee (pages 37-38) shows that they arrived in Canberra on 9 February 1956, visited New South Wales, then Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. They departed for the UK from Canberra on 19 March 1956. The file can be read online.

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Records

On page 27, there is a timetable of inspections in Western Australia after the arrival of the Committee in the afternoon of Saturday 10 March 1956:

  • Monday, 12 March: Discussion in Perth
  • Tuesday, 13 March: Fairbridge, Pinjarra
  • Wednesday, 14 March: ‘R.C. Homes, Clontarf and Leederville’
  • Thursday, 15 March: Swan Homes and Methodist Home
  • Friday, 16 March: Boys’ Town, Bindoon then return to Melbourne by air at 11.30pm
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