Forgotten children of Fairbridge Farm find justice in court decision

By Janice Harris
Updated July 4 2015 - 8:57am, first published 4:00am
TOUGH LIFE: Fairbridge Farm children became a form of child labour, having cold showers before being sent to do chores or milk cows in the dairy before they started school. Children were usually pulled out of school early to work on the farm, with very few given opportunity to pursue higher education.
TOUGH LIFE: Fairbridge Farm children became a form of child labour, having cold showers before being sent to do chores or milk cows in the dairy before they started school. Children were usually pulled out of school early to work on the farm, with very few given opportunity to pursue higher education.

FOR many child victims of abuse at Fairbridge Farm there was nowhere to turn, despite the Fairbridge Foundation and the Australian Government being alerted to shortcomings at the school during a child welfare investigation in the late 1950s.

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