The report was suppressed by Fairbridge, which was made to reform in order to keep receiving funding from the British Government. – How old were the children deported by Britain to its colonies?

Derek Moriarty, president of the Molong chapter of the Old Fairbridgians Association, wrote the following comment at www.centralwesterndaily.com.au in response to Monday’s story that Fairbridge ...

Children dining at Fairbridge Farm in Molong ... who was sent from Britain to a Molong farm school at 12 years old in the 1950s, said the offer was “outrageous and grossly unfair” and ...

The 86-year-old is one of about 150 former child migrants who launched a class action in 2009 against the Fairbridge Foundation and the NSW and commonwealth governments. The $24 million settlement ...

A five-year-old Claire Emanuel, her parents and eight siblings, came to Australia from the UK in 1966 through the Fairbridge Society's two-parent scheme which assisted large families.