Oranges and Sunshine | BBC News Asia-Pacific | Nick Bryant
Date: 24/05/2011"Of all the stories that I have covered in Australia, few have been as moving or enraging as the treatment of the British child migrants.
It was also the story where I probably came closest to crossing the line that separates journalism from advocacy. At the time, victims were pressing for an apology from the British government, which ultimately came to be delivered by the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, in February last year.
Yet how could one not be angered by the treatment of more than 150,000 children who were forcibly relocated from Britain to corners of its empire and commonwealth - a practice that continued until the late 1960s? More than 7,000 children were shipped to Australia, and many were tricked into thinking they were embarking on a life of adventure and abundance"... click here to read the full article
24 May 2011 12:17