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C-BERSS EX-PRESS
June 2002
Issue 2, Vol 5
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All Newsletters : June 2002 : Stories Take Pride of Place
Stories Take Pride of Place
The personal stories of ten Maltese former child migrants will be stored for posterity at the Battye Library in Perth. A ceremony to mark the hand-over of the recorded oral histories, and to honour the men who took part in the Maltese Oral History Project, was held at the Alexander Library in April.
The hand-over ceremony was attended by nearly 100 people, including the High Commissioner of Malta in Australia, His Excellency Mr Ives De Barro the Premier, the Hon Dr Geoff Gallop pictured below with Maltese former child migrant Mr Alf Naudi.
Other key initiatives include
Making existing and new services equally accessible to former Child Migrants from Britain and from Malta including waiving fees for Australian Citizenship for Maltese Former Child Migrants
Arranging special citizenship ceremonies for former Child Migrants “as appropriate”
While acknowledging the many valuable initiatives proposed by the Commonwealth Government, C-BERS Chairperson Maria Harries has expressed disappointment that the Commonwealth’s response has failed to recognise the “current inadequacy of government funding to support family tracing” as one of “the most vital of services”. The Commonwealth says that this service is already provided for through its existing funding to the Child Migrants Trust.
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