As the Prime Minister announced in his Apology on 16 November 2009, the National Library has conducted an oral history project to record the lives and experiences of Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. Interviews were conducted across Australia, will be preserved in the National Library and made publicly available, subject to any access conditions imposed by interviewees.
Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral History Project
As the Prime Minister announced in his Apology on 16 November 2009, the National Library has conducted an oral history project to record the lives and experiences of Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. Interviews were conducted across Australia, will be preserved in the National Library and made publicly available, subject to any access conditions imposed by interviewees.
An oral history project was recommended in two Senate Community Affairs References Committee reports
Lost Innocents: Righting the Record - Report on Child Migration (August 2001) and
Forgotten Australians - A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children (August 2004). This oral history project received funding from the Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.