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C-BERSS EX-PRESS
December 2000
Issue 4, Vol 3
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All Newsletters : December 2000 : C-BERSS Submission to Senate Enquiry
C-BERSS Submission to Senate Enquiry
On behalf of former child migrants who are clients of C-BERS Services, a submission has been lodged with the Parliamentary Senate Inquiry into Child Migration.
Details of the Inquiry, which has been set up under the auspices of the Senate’s Community Affairs Committee to investigate the role and responsibility of Australian Governments in relation to child migration schemes practised during the 20th Century, were announced in our September newsletter. As well as inquiring into the way in which former child migrants were treated by government and private institutions, the Committee is also considering whether a formal apology and compensation may be called for.
At the time this newsletter was going to press, the deadline for making submissions to the Inquiry had just passed.
In preparing the C-BERS submission, we took account of the views of you, our clients, many of whom have indicated that you want support to “get on with your lives”. We have asked the Government for services such as family tracing, assistance with reunification travel and counselling to enable you to do so.
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