The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised to the thousands of British migrant children who were shipped to the colony with the promise of a better life, only to suffer years of abuse in institutions.
In an historic speech in Canberra on Monday morning, witnessed in person by at least 40 of the Wholesale Brand T-shirt Series ,000 child migrants from Britain sent to Australia from the 1920s-1970s, Mr Rudd extended his condolences on behalf of the nation for the “ugly chapter” in Australia’s history.
“We come together today to offer our nation's apology. To say to you, the Forgotten Australians, and those who were sent to our shores as children without their consent, that we are sorry," Mr Rudd said.
"Sorry that as children you were taken from your families and placed in institutions where so often you were abused. Sorry for the physical suffering, the emotional starvation and the cold absence of love, of tenderness, of care.
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The apology came one day after the British government said the Prime Minister Gordon Brown would apologise for the child migrant programs that sent as many as 150,000 impoverished British children, some as young as three years old, to Australia, Canada and other former colonies over three and a half centuries.
The programs, which ended 40 years ago, were intended to provide the children with a new start — and the Empire with a supply of sturdy workers from “good white stock”. But many children ended up in institutions where they were abused, or were sent to work as farm labourers.
Monday’s powerful, and bipartisan, apology to the 500,000 ‘Forgotten Australians' who suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of those charged with their care, was welcomed by 1,000 victims who had travelled from Wholesale Air Jordan Sneaker round Australia to attend the event at Parliament House in Canberra.
Clutching bottle brush flowers and sprigs of wattle – two of Australia’s most recognised floral emblems – the victims sat in silence, tears streaming down their faces as stories of horrific childhoods were recounted by the nation’s leaders and broadcast around the world. Many were comforted by loved ones, holding hands or gently rubbing their backs as the emotional speeches continued.
Dorothy Chernikov, a child migrant from Britain who arrived in Australia at the age of 11, said she had been “waiting years for this”.
Ms Chernikov said she has found 41 previously unknown relatives in the past two decades.
“I have an identity now. For 52 years I had no identity. I felt I was nobody. The weight is Wholesale Air Jordan Fusions ff my shoulders,” she said. “I mean, my family loves me so much. I speak to them every week, on my computer every day. It's absolutely terrific.”
Mr Brown's office said officials would consult with representatives of the surviving children before making a formal apology next year.
British Children's Secretary Ed Balls yesterday described the child migrant policy as “a stain on our society”.
“The apology is symbolically very important,” he told Sky News.
“I think it is important that we say to the children who are now adults and older people and to their offspring that this is something that we look back on in shame. It would never happen today. But I think it is right that as a society, when we look back and see things which we now know were morally wrong, that we are willing to say we're sorry.”
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He did, and endured several terrifying trips to the emergency room when asthma attacks raged out of control and forced him to resume steroids temporarily to stay alive.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. veterans criticized President Barack Obama's lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out Ugg Boots debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation's defence.
The head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, a group representing 1.5 million former soldiers, issued a tersely worded statement urging Obama to follow the advice of his military commanders, who want more troops for the eight-year war.
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That was "evidenced by the increased attacks in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan," he said.
"I fear that an emboldened enemy will now intensify their efforts to kill more U.S. soldiers," Tradewell added.
Obama addressed the group in August when he called the conflict in Afghanistan "a war of necessity" and said the United States remained committed to stabilizing the country.
At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama reflected briefly on the difficulties of the Afghan war as he reviews war strategy.
"Iraq was hard. Afghanistan is harder," he said.
U.S. combat deaths have risen since Obama ordered a troop build-up in Mens Watches March to confront a resurgent Taliban and opinion polls this month have shown softening public support for the campaign.
Many of Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress oppose sending more troops, as recommended by General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan. Officials say he has recommended deploying an additional 40,000 soldiers, beyond the 68,000 due to be in place by the end of this year.
"I urge the president to heed the assessment and advice of his military leaders," Tradewell said, adding Obama needed to be "decisive during this critical juncture."
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Other nations, mainly NATO allies, have some 39,000 troops in Afghanistan and it is not clear how many of them would follow any eventual U.S. calls for an additional build-up.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy again ruled out sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, after Britain said it was ready to send 500 additional troops.
Afghanistan's former finance minister Ashraf Ghani, a longshot candidate in the August poll, said he expected an election announcement on Friday or Saturday.
Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington said in a New York Times interview that President Hamid Karzai's government was preparing for the commission auditing the vote to announce on Saturday a runoff was necessary.
"Chances are there will be a second round, although it was not so sure up to a couple of days ago, but now it looks like there will be a second round," Said Jawad said in the interview published online on Thursday, adding he had no direct contact with the commission.
Ghani said it was most likely that Karzai, the incumbent president, would not be declared the winner due to fraud uncovered by the electoral authorities and there would have to be a runoff between the two main candidates.
If, as expected, Karzai ultimately emerges as the winner, Ghani urged the international community to use its leverage to put pressure on him over corruption and other governance issues.
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Ghani was critical of the United Nations' role in running the election and called for an international panel to look at what had gone wrong in what he called a "game without rules."
(Additional reporting by Sue Pleming, Steve Holland and Adam Entous in Washington and David Brunnstrom in Kabul; Editing by John O'Callaghan, Peter Cooney and Xavier Briand)

WASHINGTON -- The House expanded its yearlong ethics probe into Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel on Thursday, the latest blow to the embattled New York Democrat.
The House Ethics Committee said it would broaden its inquiry to determine if Mr. Rangel filed inaccurate forms with Congress disclosing his personl Pandora Jewelry assets. This summer, Mr. Rangel updated his personal-financial-disclosure forms for the past few years, revealing more than $500,000 in assets he hadn't before made public.
Emile Milne, a spokesman for Mr. Rangel, called the announcement a "technicality," saying that "as a practical matter, today's announcement is nothing new." He said the ethics panel was already conducting a wide-ranging review of Mr. Rangel.
Lawmakers are required to file annual reports with Congress disclosing their assets and liabilities. If the Ethics Committee finds that Mr. Rangel intentionally sought to hide assets, the panel could refer the matter to the Justice Department, which could pursue a criminal case. But the ethics panel, staffed by fellow lawmakers, has traditionally been more lenient.
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On Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans engaged in a heated fight on the House floor over a Republican effort to force Mr. Rangel to step down as chairman of the tax-writing panel until the ethics panel completes its probe. Democrats defeated the measure soundly, but for the first time in three similar votes over the past year, two Democrats voted with Republicans, signaling a possible softening of Democratic support for Mr. Rangel.
The Ethics Committee said it has authorized nearly 150 subpoenas, interviewed 34 witnesses and reviewed 12,000 pages of documents in the probe.
Mr. Rangel is already being probed for a Wholesale Watches range of allegations, from failing to disclose income on a rental property to using his official House letterhead when asking for donations to an educational center that bears his name. He has denied any willful wrongdoing.