[joglynne]

After so many years when the abuse of these people as children was denied, and the failure of anyone to help them or even believe what had happened to them, an apology is welcomed by them as an acknowledgment that both countries carried out inhuman actions on defenseless children.

Maybe an apology seems inappropriate to some but my Aunt was one of these children and what happened to her is heartbreaking to hear. She managed to trace my Father, her cousin, with the help of the Red Cross and she has told us that the Australian apology has, in her words, allowed her to close a door on her painful memories.

One of the things that bewildered her was that she was sent away from her home land to live as a unloved and illtreated child in Australia when Great Britain was opening her doors to refugees from other countries and looking after them with more compassion that they did their own children.