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Sue, right now your baby
needs to be safe

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and you need a bit of
support, don't you?

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I know you love her, of course you do.

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But this will give you a chance
to sort yourself out.

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Just go and get up and get
on top of everything.

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Don't, Margaret.

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Don't take her.

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Do you want me to put her down soon?

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Just put her in the carry cart.

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All right, love?

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Put her down.

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Put her down.

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There you go.

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You'll be all right.

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You'll be able to see her tomorrow.

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I'll take you to her and you'll be
able to see that she's fine.

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All done.

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All right.

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Don't!

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-Don't!
-Don't!
-Please!

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Please, Margaret!

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-Please!
-I'll do better, I promise!

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The thing I love about this group is that
you don't have to explain yourself.

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We've all been adopted
as kids and okay,

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we've all had different experiences
after that.

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But it's a big bottom line, isn't it?

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I'm glad to be here tonight,
I don't mind telling you.

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I've been getting a lot
of grief at work.

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Things have been getting
me down, really.

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I've been feeling a bit
low, a bit lonely.

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You know, and you always
think, is it...

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Is it because what happened
when I was a kid?

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You know, maybe I'll never be right.

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But you can't always
know that, can you?

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You just...

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You just always wonder.

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Have you seen Jack's case?

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I think he left it at the
front desk for a while.

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Is this where the triangle group is?

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Yes, that's right, but we've
finished for the night.

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Charlotte.

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Charlotte Cooper.

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Could I have a quick word?

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It won't take a minute.

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Well, what you're looking for isn't
really what this group does.

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This is a local support group, really.

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I might be able to refer you to

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somebody who'd be able to
offer you counselling.

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What counselling?

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I want to find out who I am.

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Well, this isn't really the way to...

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Look, I don't even know if my name
and birth date are right.

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I remember leaving England.

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I was four years old.

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I was in a children's home because
my parents were dead.

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Then they sent me in a
boat to Australia.

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All I know for certain is I
was born in Nottingham.

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Why did you mean they
put you on a boat?

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It was all in a boat for us.

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Hundreds of us.

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What, your adoptive parents
were emigrating?

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No, no parents, no guardians, just a couple
of hundred kids they sent us away.

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Well, that can't be right.

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What do you mean?

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It's simply not legal.

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There's no way that a group
of unaccompanied

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children would just be shipped
off like that.

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Are you calling me a liar?

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No, of course not.

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That is the one thing I know.

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I know about who I am.

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Don't you tell me that's not true.

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Okay, look, I can see you're upset.

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Why don't you come into my office
on another date and...

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-Here, take this.
-That's my name.

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That's all I've got to tell anyone
where I've come from.

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It is 10.30 at night and...

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I can't find anything else.

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I've tried everything.

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I've been everywhere.

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Now my time's running out.

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I'm flying back. So you have a look and
you write and tell me how wrong I am.

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Come 10,000 miles to find home,
they call you a liar.

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Wait.

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You're not a bloody saint.

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You were tired.

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Yeah, I know, but I should
have seen it coming.

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You can't always see it coming.

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Why is Ben out of bed?

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Oh, hello, miss.

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Ben spilled his juice.

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It wasn't my fault.

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What are you doing out of bed?

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I can't sleep.

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Can I read?

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No. Go on, go back up to bed, and I'll
come and tuck you up in a minute.

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It's not fair.

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I'm older than him. Let's
get you some more juice.

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-Happens all the time.
-Up you go.

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I just don't know if I
did the right thing.

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Oh, Margaret, we're social workers.

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There's no right thing. There's social
work practice, court decisions.

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My professional judgment.

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Which means that sometimes
you're doing the right

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thing, and sometimes you're
oppressing the poor

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with the middle class values
of reactionary government.

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Don't make that face at me.

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Kiss for mommy.

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Sometimes you're just tired.

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Oh, you're heavy.

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Love it.

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It's okay, I'll go.

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I had a bad dream.

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Oh, sweetie.

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Are you OK?

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What happened?

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It was a long road to Luton,
and I couldn't.

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You couldn't what?

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I couldn't get out, and
I couldn't find you.

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Darling, I'm here.

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I lost you.

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Oh, sweetie, I'm here, and I'm
not going anywhere, OK?

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All right?

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Are you going to go back to sleep?

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I think you have to talk about it.

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Exactly.

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I only told my husband
just this last year.

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Yeah, good for you.

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Well done.

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What do you think, Nicky?

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Um, well, yeah, I mean, I know what
you mean, but, um, sometimes I

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just think it would sound stupid if I
told everyone what was bothering me.

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What is it?

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Um, it's my brother, Brother Jack.

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I don't really see him, you see.

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Do you want to tell everyone
who Jackie is, Nicky?

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Mmm.

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Yeah.

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They did the job

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He found me a few years ago, um, just

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got a letter out of the blue.

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Dear Nicky, I think it may have
been your brother Jack.

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And he was.

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As soon as I saw him, I knew.

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I mean, you know, I remembered.

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That's right.

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You know, once upon a time,
I used to have a brother.

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So, uh, where is he?

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Australia.

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Can you believe it?

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It was the Sallie Army
who found me for him.

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They'd taken us both in
and put me in my first

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foster home and shipped
Jack off to Australia.

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So, uh...

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I mean, I know I have
family, I suppose.

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But he's so far away, and sometimes
it's hard to feel.

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So, was he adopted by an
Australian family?

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Uh, no.

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No, um, it was just kids, Jack said.

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A big ship full of kids from, uh, five

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to 30, and all being sent
off to Australia.

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You never told me that bit, Nicky.

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Didn't I?

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That's what happened.

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It could still all be
just coincidence.

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Do you think so?

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Well, if children did emigrate
to Australia in

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any numbers, there must be
some record of them.

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I was just wondering if you
had any records of any

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unaccompanied children who were sent
to Australia in the 1940s and 50s.

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I don't think we ever had those
records in Australia House.

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So there were children sent out there.

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Do you know how many?

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When?

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Why were they sent?

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I've already told you.

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We don't have any more information.

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So who would know?

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Why don't you ask your own government?

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They're the ones who sent
the kids out there.

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I know, I couldn't believe it.

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I mean I was still half
thinking that the

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story couldn't be true and
he just came out with it.

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No, no, I think I'm gonna still
get the later train

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and I'm gonna go and try St.
Catherine's house now

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and see if I can find Charlotte's
birth certificate.

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If I can get her mother's name
off that, then I can probably

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find out when she died and when Charlotte
was placed in an orphanage.

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We can start to trace her journey.

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Maybe get some clues about why Nicky's
brother was sent away as well.

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Charlotte's mother wasn't dead.

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Lovely to see you, Merv.

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How was your day? Charlotte said
she was in an orphanage in

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1950 because both her parents
were dead, while I found a

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record of a woman with her mother's
name who got married in

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Nottingham in 1956, not dead, very much
alive and eating wedding cake.

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Might not be the same woman.

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I ordered up the certificate,
but why would

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Charlotte have been sent if
she wasn't an orphan?

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So, if her mother was alive in 1956,
she might still be alive?

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I don't know.

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So you're going to follow that up?

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Well, I'll find the address on the certificate
and follow the trail from there.

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It's not the right age.

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I don't know why it's taking so long.

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-There?
-Yeah.

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Okay.

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Is that time already?

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No, I don't hang on.

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I'll finish that off.

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Excuse me.

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Are you Vera Wilson?

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-That's me.
-How can I help you, love?

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I was wondering if I could have
a word with you in private.

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It's something personal.

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I'll take you through.

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What's it about?

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It's about your family.

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Oh, my God.

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I mean, he'd come one day.

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It's you insane.

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No, I'd better be fairer.

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I'm a social worker.

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Do you know where our baby is?

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Let's go somewhere where
we can talk in private.

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Where is she?

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Does she have a family?

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Is she happy?

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Charlotte's in Australia.

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She grew up in a children's
home in Australia.

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In Australia?

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What was she doing over there?

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What was she doing in
a children's home?

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I went back to get her and they
told me she'd been adopted.

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I went back to get her.

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They told me she was better off.

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She was in a real family.

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What was she doing in a children's home
on the other side of the world?

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♪

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Alright, can we take that?

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How was your flight?

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That's, um, my mother.

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Your grandmother.

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She was very strict, you know.

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You've got to understand how
things were 40 years ago.

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No one wanted the shame.

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It was such a scandal.

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Mother wouldn't have me in the house.

262
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They took my baby away from me at

263
00:17:59,159 --> 00:18:04,359
the hostel and I tried to visit

264
00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:10,740
and then one day they said she'd gone.

265
00:18:13,099 --> 00:18:14,339
You would gone.

266
00:18:21,099 --> 00:18:24,839
Get this for you in case

267
00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:29,840
Well, I always kept it.

268
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000
♪

269
00:18:51,250 --> 00:18:56,250
♪

270
00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:00,500
♪

271
00:19:03,650 --> 00:19:06,009
I'm up to my eyes at work.

272
00:19:06,190 --> 00:19:07,190
I know.

273
00:19:07,750 --> 00:19:08,750
And we can't afford it.

274
00:19:09,830 --> 00:19:10,830
I know.

275
00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:12,450
And the kids?

276
00:19:13,330 --> 00:19:14,650
They'll be fine here.

277
00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:20,500
♪

278
00:19:20,750 --> 00:19:25,750
♪

279
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:31,000
♪

280
00:19:31,250 --> 00:19:36,250
♪

281
00:19:50,299 --> 00:19:51,519
Nice to see you.

282
00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:55,650
Margaret, this is my brother, Jack.

283
00:19:56,290 --> 00:19:57,370
It's very nice to meet you.

284
00:19:57,550 --> 00:19:58,550
I've heard a lot about you.

285
00:19:58,990 --> 00:19:59,990
Oh, it's good to meet you.

286
00:20:00,509 --> 00:20:01,509
Where's the flight?

287
00:20:01,830 --> 00:20:03,590
Um, yeah, we're good.

288
00:20:03,850 --> 00:20:04,850
Get these into the car.

289
00:20:04,970 --> 00:20:05,970
Long live it.

290
00:20:06,190 --> 00:20:07,190
-Yeah?
-Yeah.

291
00:20:09,070 --> 00:20:10,190
Are you all right?

292
00:20:10,370 --> 00:20:11,370
Yeah.

293
00:20:11,370 --> 00:20:13,190
Are you still okay to come
for the reunion tomorrow?

294
00:20:13,730 --> 00:20:15,009
Yes, yeah, yeah, of course.

295
00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:24,500
♪

296
00:20:24,750 --> 00:20:29,750
♪

297
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000
♪

298
00:20:34,150 --> 00:20:37,810
So, we are delighted to see our usual

299
00:20:38,289 --> 00:20:40,930
wonderful turnout of former
Fairbridge residents.

300
00:20:41,610 --> 00:20:44,970
This is a nostalgic and happy
day for all of us.

301
00:20:45,610 --> 00:20:50,630
Now, just before I go, this is Mrs Humphreys,
who has come all the way

302
00:20:50,630 --> 00:20:54,730
from England to join one of our old Fairbridgians
at the reunion today.

303
00:20:55,070 --> 00:20:57,050
She'd love to hear any stories
you have about your

304
00:20:57,050 --> 00:21:00,190
time here, so do take the time
to talk to her if you can.

305
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,019
Hello, my name's Margaret Humphries.

306
00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:10,740
I was recently contacted by a
woman who was sent here to

307
00:21:10,740 --> 00:21:14,480
Australia as a child and has lost all
contact with her family in England.

308
00:21:15,539 --> 00:21:18,099
And I'm here today to see if any of
you are in the same position.

309
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,519
If you want to talk to me, just
come and find me later.

310
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,720
All right, thank you.

311
00:21:26,670 --> 00:21:27,930
So is this all there is?

312
00:21:28,029 --> 00:21:29,630
The bunkhouses, the farm buildings?

313
00:21:30,569 --> 00:21:31,569
What about school?

314
00:21:33,890 --> 00:21:36,750
Well, you only got to go to school if
you finished your farm work first.

315
00:21:39,779 --> 00:21:42,380
Jack told me some stories about
this place, didn't he, Jack?

316
00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:46,779
I mean, the food was terrible,
wasn't it?

317
00:21:47,539 --> 00:21:49,019
What was it you said, Jack?

318
00:21:49,259 --> 00:21:53,640
Um, you could always tell
the Fairbridge kids,

319
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,580
because they were the one nicking
the other kids' lunchboxes.

320
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,480
Do you know if all the other children

321
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,000
were sent out from Britain
the same as you?

322
00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:04,360
I don't know.

323
00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:06,240
Do you know who sent you?

324
00:22:08,299 --> 00:22:09,920
I'm going to be up by the bus.

325
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000
Yeah.

326
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:14,829
Son of a fucker.

327
00:22:17,799 --> 00:22:18,799
I'm sorry.

328
00:22:23,849 --> 00:22:27,529
This woman you were talking about,
did you find any family for her?

329
00:22:27,949 --> 00:22:28,949
Yes.

330
00:22:29,649 --> 00:22:33,509
She was told that her mother
was dead, but we found her.

331
00:22:34,109 --> 00:22:35,490
You found her mother?

332
00:22:36,230 --> 00:22:37,230
Yes.

333
00:22:37,589 --> 00:22:38,589
You think I've got a mother?

334
00:22:39,069 --> 00:22:40,069
I don't know.

335
00:22:40,789 --> 00:22:41,789
Everybody's got a mother.

336
00:22:42,009 --> 00:22:43,009
What year?

337
00:22:43,169 --> 00:22:44,549
What year are you talking about?

338
00:22:45,009 --> 00:22:46,189
What do you want?

339
00:22:46,269 --> 00:22:47,269
What do you want to know?

340
00:23:02,750 --> 00:23:03,930
Sorry to keep you waiting.

341
00:23:04,970 --> 00:23:07,089
Any records of who the child
migrants were would

342
00:23:07,089 --> 00:23:09,369
be back of the UK or with
local state authorities.

343
00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:19,500
♪

344
00:23:19,750 --> 00:23:22,500
♪

345
00:23:23,950 --> 00:23:25,450
Well, there's so many of them.

346
00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:32,889
These migrations, were they
organized schemes?

347
00:23:33,369 --> 00:23:34,369
I can't tell you really.

348
00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:35,750
It's not my area, I'm afraid.

349
00:23:38,029 --> 00:23:39,710
So why have I never heard about it?

350
00:23:40,669 --> 00:23:42,649
Why has no one ever heard about it?

351
00:23:43,889 --> 00:23:46,029
I don't suppose anyone was
really that interested.

352
00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:50,259
I want to get a view of you two.

353
00:23:53,859 --> 00:23:54,960
I'll stop, Jack.

354
00:24:00,349 --> 00:24:02,009
I can't stand Mother's Day.

355
00:24:08,019 --> 00:24:10,200
I get the same feeling every
year like someone's

356
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,460
twisting a knife inside me,
so normally I'll stay

357
00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:15,299
inside on that day and I draw the
blinds and I let the phone ring.

358
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:21,789
I was married, you know.

359
00:24:21,870 --> 00:24:23,069
-I've got...
-I've got three kids.

360
00:24:25,490 --> 00:24:27,170
See, I just never knew what
was wrong with me.

361
00:24:27,390 --> 00:24:29,269
You know, I'd think about my mother
all the time, but I...

362
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:31,130
I could never... could
never talk about it.

363
00:24:31,150 --> 00:24:32,250
Because, I mean, how
can you talk about

364
00:24:32,250 --> 00:24:33,970
someone when you've been told
they don't even exist?

365
00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:37,789
I went to see this doctor.

366
00:24:39,450 --> 00:24:43,250
He put me on antidepressants, and
they didn't really help, so...

367
00:24:44,930 --> 00:24:45,930
I saved them up.

368
00:24:46,329 --> 00:24:48,630
I saved them all up, and then...

369
00:24:52,550 --> 00:24:54,870
I mean, it wasn't my wife's fault,
you know, there's a...

370
00:24:58,259 --> 00:24:59,800
There's an emptiness in me,

371
00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:06,380
there always has been and I think,
I thought, I think that

372
00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:11,759
the only thing that could fill it
is her, you know, is my mother.

373
00:25:20,349 --> 00:25:22,490
I've got this very strong
memory of when I was

374
00:25:22,490 --> 00:25:24,709
in the children's home in the
UK and I was only 10.

375
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,299
And this this man in a suit
he came to see me

376
00:25:30,299 --> 00:25:32,079
and he says how'd you like
to go to Australia?

377
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,220
You know he said the sun
shines every day You'd

378
00:25:35,220 --> 00:25:38,880
live in a white house Ride
a horse to school and

379
00:25:39,419 --> 00:25:41,640
you pick oranges off the trees
for your breakfast

380
00:25:44,099 --> 00:25:48,319
You know, when I didn't say anything,
he says, Well, it's just...

381
00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:51,359
Your mother's dead, you know, so...

382
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:52,359
You might as well.

383
00:25:56,299 --> 00:26:01,720
So, now you're telling me that she might
not have been dead after all.

384
00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:04,159
Oh, no, I can't say that, Jack.

385
00:26:05,339 --> 00:26:06,500
We just don't know.

386
00:26:07,579 --> 00:26:11,059
What we can do is we can search for her
records and see what we can find.

387
00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:14,879
I don't know.

388
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,720
I... Of course, of course,
I don't know.

389
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:17,720
You found your sister?

390
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,800
She was so happy to see you, you know?

391
00:26:29,239 --> 00:26:30,239
Nicky trusts you.

392
00:26:34,299 --> 00:26:35,940
And I reckon I...

393
00:26:36,319 --> 00:26:37,460
I think I should, too.

394
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:41,500
Oh, there she is.

395
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:43,599
Come on.

396
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,060
Hello, sweetheart.

397
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,840
How did that feel?

398
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,200
Good to see you.

399
00:26:52,259 --> 00:26:54,140
How was the flight? It was
all right, actually.

400
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:56,120
All right? Come on, guys.
Did you get any sleep?

401
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:57,480
A little bit, yeah.

402
00:27:00,549 --> 00:27:02,289
I am entirely exhausted.

403
00:27:02,609 --> 00:27:04,809
-Fuck!
-Beth, how did you hear me?

404
00:27:29,549 --> 00:27:31,049
That's what I found first.

405
00:27:32,430 --> 00:27:33,490
But then I was desperate.

406
00:27:33,589 --> 00:27:36,769
I'd been searching court records, children's
panel, minutes, you name it.

407
00:27:36,809 --> 00:27:38,069
No trace of the children anywhere.

408
00:27:38,889 --> 00:27:40,409
I was just looking through newspapers

409
00:27:40,409 --> 00:27:42,589
round about our date and
that leapt out at me.

410
00:27:43,409 --> 00:27:44,710
Now you had the name of
the organisation.

411
00:27:45,289 --> 00:27:46,289
Fairbridge.

412
00:27:46,329 --> 00:27:47,329
It wasn't just Fairbridge.

413
00:27:47,409 --> 00:27:49,169
All sorts of different charities
ran these schemes.

414
00:27:50,430 --> 00:27:51,430
Churches, Barnardos.

415
00:27:52,869 --> 00:27:54,430
Children from deprived backgrounds

416
00:27:54,430 --> 00:27:56,250
shipped off for a better
life in the colonies.

417
00:27:59,049 --> 00:28:00,049
This is it.

418
00:28:00,269 --> 00:28:01,730
This is all fitting together.

419
00:28:02,669 --> 00:28:06,269
The schemes ran from the 19th century
to, you won't believe this, 1970.

420
00:28:07,149 --> 00:28:09,349
But there was a wave of migrations to

421
00:28:09,349 --> 00:28:11,490
Australia between the mid-50s
and the mid-60s.

422
00:28:11,730 --> 00:28:12,730
How big?

423
00:28:12,769 --> 00:28:15,629
How many kids? I don't know exactly,
but it must have been organised.

424
00:28:16,589 --> 00:28:18,169
I mean organised at the
level of government.

425
00:28:19,669 --> 00:28:20,829
These children were in care.

426
00:28:21,149 --> 00:28:22,730
Local authorities were
their guardians.

427
00:28:23,829 --> 00:28:25,809
For so many of them to
be systematically

428
00:28:25,809 --> 00:28:27,529
deported, it must have been
government policy.

429
00:28:27,529 --> 00:28:28,789
The Home Secretary would
have had to give

430
00:28:28,789 --> 00:28:30,750
his consent for them to
leave the country.

431
00:28:31,849 --> 00:28:34,210
And the Australian government must
have wanted to receive them.

432
00:28:34,349 --> 00:28:35,349
Why did Australia, I suppose?

433
00:28:35,909 --> 00:28:39,470
You're talking about the organised
deportation of children in care.

434
00:28:40,569 --> 00:28:42,369
I don't have any concrete
proof yet, but

435
00:28:42,369 --> 00:28:44,129
the evidence doesn't leave
much room for doubt.

436
00:28:45,710 --> 00:28:48,029
So who's taking responsibility
for what

437
00:28:48,029 --> 00:28:50,269
happened to these children once
they reached Australia?

438
00:28:54,150 --> 00:28:58,530
Oh, Merv, I've got the
names of hundreds of

439
00:28:58,530 --> 00:29:01,190
people in my suitcase who all
want to know who they are.

440
00:29:01,290 --> 00:29:02,290
I know.

441
00:29:04,639 --> 00:29:06,419
Who do I ask? Where do I start?

442
00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:12,640
Are you going to look at
all that stuff now?

443
00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:17,039
Jet lag. I thought you said you were
going to work in the morning.

444
00:29:17,819 --> 00:29:18,819
I've got to.

445
00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:19,900
I've been summoned.

446
00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:23,359
Merv?

447
00:29:26,109 --> 00:29:27,930
I'm going to have to get
back to Australia.

448
00:29:29,769 --> 00:29:30,769
Come on.

449
00:29:31,289 --> 00:29:32,390
Catch your breath first, eh?

450
00:29:42,269 --> 00:29:43,309
We can see you now.

451
00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:46,650
Two weeks ago.

452
00:29:49,409 --> 00:29:51,629
Then send it to the other department.

453
00:29:53,470 --> 00:29:54,470
Shut the door.

454
00:29:54,889 --> 00:29:56,509
-Yeah.
-To the other department.

455
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:00,500
Okay.

456
00:30:00,859 --> 00:30:01,859
Take a seat.

457
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,200
Two weeks?

458
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:08,700
Okay.

459
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,980
Well, as you know, Rita's filled me
in with what you've been up to.

460
00:30:16,580 --> 00:30:17,580
I've read your report.

461
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,580
Look, I just want to say that
I have kept on top of

462
00:30:19,580 --> 00:30:21,759
my caseload and I went to Australia
in my own time.

463
00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:22,880
That was my annual leave.

464
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,100
I think that's appalling.

465
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,160
What?

466
00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:28,440
What is? You had to use your
own holiday to pursue this.

467
00:30:29,779 --> 00:30:30,779
Oh.

468
00:30:31,059 --> 00:30:33,400
I'm taking this to the Social
Services Committee.

469
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,920
Tell me.

470
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,559
What is it you want to do?

471
00:30:41,389 --> 00:30:46,410
Well, uh, the people that
I've met, they want

472
00:30:46,410 --> 00:30:47,650
to find a record of who they are.

473
00:30:48,910 --> 00:30:50,590
They just want to know
where they came from.

474
00:30:51,309 --> 00:30:52,309
What do you need?

475
00:30:52,990 --> 00:30:53,990
Time.

476
00:30:54,509 --> 00:30:56,130
Time to find their families.

477
00:30:57,150 --> 00:30:58,150
How long?

478
00:30:58,370 --> 00:30:59,370
Oh, a year.

479
00:31:01,549 --> 00:31:02,829
How about two?

480
00:31:05,109 --> 00:31:07,409
Yes, that would be...

481
00:31:07,409 --> 00:31:09,250
I'll make a recommendation
to the committee.

482
00:31:12,129 --> 00:31:13,129
So...

483
00:31:13,349 --> 00:31:16,849
Are you talking about me working
on this full-time?

484
00:31:17,589 --> 00:31:18,789
That is what you want, isn't it?

485
00:31:22,069 --> 00:31:23,069
Yes.

486
00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:25,330
Yeah, yes, it is.

487
00:31:27,009 --> 00:31:29,850
Now, how are we going to
fund you properly?

488
00:31:31,130 --> 00:31:34,530
We're going to have to raise your profile
to try and get some public funding.

489
00:31:34,790 --> 00:31:35,910
We need to get donations.

490
00:31:38,049 --> 00:31:39,450
Have you thought about
going to the press?

491
00:31:42,849 --> 00:31:43,849
Bev?

492
00:31:48,250 --> 00:31:50,970
It's been printed in the papers
in Sydney and Melbourne too.

493
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:58,000
♪

494
00:32:02,099 --> 00:32:03,099
Oh, this thing.

495
00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:05,939
Hey, Mr. Sunfries, I read the
article in the paper.

496
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:07,399
Please could you help
me find my mother?

497
00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:09,319
Sent to Australia in 1957.

498
00:32:09,419 --> 00:32:10,419
I have no birth certificate.

499
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:15,039
I'm in trouble, aren't I?

500
00:32:33,349 --> 00:32:35,309
Have I helped you understand
all that, Bob?

501
00:32:35,309 --> 00:32:36,309
It's a lot to take in.

502
00:32:38,289 --> 00:32:39,869
They gave me the wrong name.

503
00:32:40,589 --> 00:32:41,909
They'd given you the wrong name.

504
00:32:42,629 --> 00:32:44,869
That's why it's taken so long to
find your birth certificate.

505
00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:49,250
So...

506
00:32:49,569 --> 00:32:50,849
which name do I use?

507
00:32:52,169 --> 00:32:53,169
Who am I?

508
00:32:54,209 --> 00:32:55,329
You're the same person.

509
00:32:56,949 --> 00:32:58,469
But I've got the wrong name.

510
00:32:59,589 --> 00:33:02,429
You're using a different name from the
name on your birth certificate.

511
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,600
Do you want to stop for a minute?

512
00:33:07,940 --> 00:33:08,940
No.

513
00:33:09,059 --> 00:33:10,059
No, I'm good.

514
00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:12,779
So, what next?

515
00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:18,539
Well, what would you
like me to do next?

516
00:33:30,070 --> 00:33:31,670
Thank you all very much for your

517
00:33:31,670 --> 00:33:34,150
patience, and I'll be with
you as soon as I can.

518
00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:42,819
I'm very sorry to keep you waiting.

519
00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:44,160
-It's not a problem.
-I'm Dan.

520
00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:45,420
Dan, please, come in.

521
00:33:50,879 --> 00:33:51,880
Oh, Len Connolly.

522
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:52,960
I'm with Dan.

523
00:33:53,339 --> 00:33:54,839
Oh, nice to meet you.

524
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,460
Well, I usually see people
on their own, but...

525
00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:01,099
No, I'm a moral support.

526
00:34:01,420 --> 00:34:02,420
Right.

527
00:34:02,619 --> 00:34:05,759
Well, Dan, you'll be fine on your own,
but if that's what you want...

528
00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:06,759
It's what he wants, yeah.

529
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:09,559
Well, nice to meet you, Mr Connolly.

530
00:34:13,050 --> 00:34:15,030
All right, shall we yeah

531
00:34:17,949 --> 00:34:21,829
So I reckon if I do have any family,
they might be around Doncaster.

532
00:34:22,109 --> 00:34:23,449
Okay, right, Doncaster.

533
00:34:26,579 --> 00:34:31,239
Um, well, from what you've
told me, I will be able

534
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,059
to start to trace your mother's
birth certificate.

535
00:34:33,219 --> 00:34:34,259
Oh, I've tried all of that.

536
00:34:34,359 --> 00:34:35,939
I've had the best in the
business working on it.

537
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,500
-Lane.
-Nothing, you know.

538
00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:38,879
Can't be done.

539
00:34:39,319 --> 00:34:40,639
That cost me a few bob, too.

540
00:34:40,739 --> 00:34:42,119
Not that I'm short of a few bob.

541
00:34:42,779 --> 00:34:44,439
I am trying to listen to Dad.

542
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:46,679
Well, I reckon you need
to see me as well.

543
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:48,519
Are you a child migrant, too?

544
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:49,719
I've just told you that.

545
00:34:50,339 --> 00:34:53,759
Well, I'm sure that tracing your family
is very important to you.

546
00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:56,619
But right now, this is Dan's time.

547
00:34:57,759 --> 00:35:00,039
Okay, so, there are three
possibilities.

548
00:35:00,939 --> 00:35:04,679
We might be able to find your
mother's birth certificate,

549
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:09,279
and obviously that is what we want
and what we're hoping for.

550
00:35:10,339 --> 00:35:15,719
We might find her and then discover
that she's already passed away.

551
00:35:17,439 --> 00:35:20,239
We might, um...

552
00:35:20,539 --> 00:35:22,199
We might not have any luck.

553
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:23,819
-I'm really sorry.
-Excuse me.

554
00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:25,980
What are you doing?

555
00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:28,119
Could you put that down, please?

556
00:35:29,579 --> 00:35:30,759
Just checking what you're up to.

557
00:35:31,139 --> 00:35:34,319
I'm sorry, but if you interrupt again, I'm
going to have to ask you to leave.

558
00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:35,559
Okay, well, when are you going to see me?

559
00:35:35,579 --> 00:35:37,739
Look, I've got all the documents
that the detectives found me.

560
00:35:38,539 --> 00:35:39,579
They never found my mother.

561
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:44,500
Well, if the world's best private
detectives were unable

562
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:46,699
to trace her, I'm not really sure
what you expect me to do.

563
00:35:48,259 --> 00:35:49,899
Well, I thought you could
give it a go.

564
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,760
I'm afraid I have a backlog
of people to see on this

565
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,099
trip and I won't be able to
fit you in but if you

566
00:35:58,099 --> 00:36:01,500
want to send me your documents
Then I'll see what I can do

567
00:36:04,860 --> 00:36:10,039
Right, now, Dan, what I'm going
to need from you is any

568
00:36:10,039 --> 00:36:13,760
recollections that you have, um, obviously
from your early childhood.

569
00:36:19,150 --> 00:36:21,410
You've caused quite a stir,
Mrs. Humphreys.

570
00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:25,070
There's been a lot of comments since you
broke this story in the newspapers.

571
00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:27,730
Well, I didn't exactly
break the story.

572
00:36:27,730 --> 00:36:31,710
People are saying what happened to some
of these children is an outrage.

573
00:36:32,110 --> 00:36:33,389
Would you care to comment on that?

574
00:36:34,210 --> 00:36:35,510
Well, I'd say it was, yes.

575
00:36:35,550 --> 00:36:37,389
That's rather a strong word,
though, isn't it?

576
00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:42,329
I met a woman recently who was sent
to Australia at five years of age.

577
00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:47,450
And she wanted me to tell you
that she lived with 15

578
00:36:47,450 --> 00:36:52,950
other girls in an unheated, unventilated
hut for 10 years.

579
00:36:53,690 --> 00:36:54,970
And during that time, her only

580
00:36:54,970 --> 00:36:57,809
possessions were one dress
and one pair of shoes.

581
00:36:57,990 --> 00:37:00,530
And then at age 15, she
was told that she

582
00:37:00,530 --> 00:37:03,010
had to repay her debt of
board and lodging.

583
00:37:03,269 --> 00:37:06,650
And she was sent to work
as unpaid slave labor

584
00:37:06,650 --> 00:37:09,829
on a farm that was 50 miles
from the nearest road.

585
00:37:09,930 --> 00:37:12,250
So what you're saying is? And
in all that time, she

586
00:37:12,250 --> 00:37:14,990
never knew that she had a
mother still living in

587
00:37:14,990 --> 00:37:18,610
England who had no idea where she
was or what had happened to her.

588
00:37:19,369 --> 00:37:21,769
I'd like to know what word
you would use to

589
00:37:21,769 --> 00:37:23,670
describe what that mother
and daughter suffered.

590
00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:26,210
And here we go.

591
00:37:26,450 --> 00:37:27,450
One, two, three.

592
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,920
Let's do, let's do one
more, one more mate.

593
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,099
Oh, Mrs Humphreys!

594
00:37:34,940 --> 00:37:36,400
Miss, I've got to talk to you.

595
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:38,260
I'd like to take you to dinner.

596
00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:39,420
My treat, my treat.

597
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:41,280
I can buy my own dinner, thank you.

598
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,500
Oh, come on, what are you, one
of those lesbian socialists?

599
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,599
Shut up, Linda, he's alright.

600
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,519
You know what he's saying. Hey, look,
look, look, she's turned crimson.

601
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:48,760
He's alright.

602
00:37:51,630 --> 00:37:54,329
Mrs. Humphreys, Mrs. Humphreys,
I want an appointment.

603
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:03,000
♪

604
00:38:08,449 --> 00:38:10,329
So how long have you been
doing this work?

605
00:38:11,889 --> 00:38:12,889
You know what?

606
00:38:14,210 --> 00:38:16,969
I've been cleaning floors
for 40 years.

607
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:22,840
First thing they did
at Fairbridge, when

608
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,700
I came off the boat, put
a mop in my hands.

609
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,340
Stop you all crying and
clean that floor.

610
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,400
How old were you?

611
00:38:32,050 --> 00:38:33,050
I was eight.

612
00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:39,779
I was crying too, didn't
need to put a bucket of

613
00:38:39,779 --> 00:38:41,859
water on the floor, I was dropping
enough water on it.

614
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,240
That was it, scrubbing for 40 years.

615
00:38:51,430 --> 00:38:52,430
sometimes.

616
00:38:54,099 --> 00:38:58,940
When I was shining up those
floors, I think, I

617
00:38:58,940 --> 00:39:01,019
wonder what my old mum would think
if she could see me now.

618
00:39:03,119 --> 00:39:04,400
So you remember your mum?

619
00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:10,409
Of course, of course I do.

620
00:39:10,550 --> 00:39:13,150
You can't ever forget
your mum, can you?

621
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,620
I don't know where she is.

622
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,179
He's been in and out of the
hospital for years now

623
00:39:22,179 --> 00:39:24,360
but we've never seen him the
way he was the other night.

624
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,800
When your program went out on the radio
he just, he just broke down.

625
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,940
He just howled and then all he wanted
to do was get a hold of you.

626
00:39:33,340 --> 00:39:34,599
I'm glad I could be here.

627
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:35,639
He's just over here.

628
00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:38,300
I was only three.

629
00:39:41,269 --> 00:39:42,969
Someone told me my parents were dead.

630
00:39:45,349 --> 00:39:50,069
And then I was on a boat coming here
and grew up in the orphanage.

631
00:39:57,900 --> 00:39:59,680
You don't want to hear this, Margaret.

632
00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:02,300
Yes, I do.

633
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:05,519
That's why I'm here.

634
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,000
♪

635
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000
♪

636
00:40:40,150 --> 00:40:44,599
It's Christmas, I was really excited I

637
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:51,639
I would have been seven by then.

638
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:53,760
I had this

639
00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:57,280
wonderful singing voice, you see.

640
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:04,159
I used to give concerts at
the orphanage and this

641
00:41:06,339 --> 00:41:11,340
dentist and his wife asked if

642
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:13,619
I would come to their

643
00:41:13,619 --> 00:41:19,000
home for Christmas Eve and,
you know, sing for them.

644
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:24,500
♪

645
00:41:28,470 --> 00:41:30,269
Oh, Lev.

646
00:41:32,070 --> 00:41:33,289
Thought I'd take a chance.

647
00:41:33,490 --> 00:41:34,490
Couldn't sleep.

648
00:41:36,699 --> 00:41:37,859
What time is it there?

649
00:41:38,699 --> 00:41:39,699
Three in the morning.

650
00:41:40,619 --> 00:41:41,619
Just wondered if you were okay.

651
00:41:42,799 --> 00:41:44,399
Oh, you know, getting by.

652
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:45,960
What's wrong?

653
00:41:48,449 --> 00:41:49,449
It's just...

654
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Some of the things that
I'm hearing are...

655
00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:56,559
Get an earlier flight.

656
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,840
Come home just before Christmas.

657
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:02,039
Like I promised, it's
only a week away.

658
00:42:05,550 --> 00:42:06,910
Keep me over Christmas.

659
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:09,130
I'm just gonna get presents.

660
00:42:10,510 --> 00:42:11,510
Proper Christmas dinner.

661
00:42:15,650 --> 00:42:17,030
We had a big party.

662
00:42:19,199 --> 00:42:23,759
I sang Ave Maria, the women said

663
00:42:23,759 --> 00:42:26,359
I was a little angel.

664
00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:32,240
And then the dentist.

665
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,500
♪

666
00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:43,159
dentist and two other men, they took
me into the bathroom and they...

667
00:42:44,529 --> 00:42:45,529
Bye.

668
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000
♪

669
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,000
♪

670
00:43:01,250 --> 00:43:06,250
♪

671
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:10,500
♪

672
00:43:12,550 --> 00:43:13,550
What's wrong?

673
00:43:13,990 --> 00:43:14,990
We can't have that.

674
00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:22,340
-Margaret?
-Margaret?

675
00:43:24,849 --> 00:43:27,889
-I can't.
-I can't.
-Margaret?
-Hey, stop.

676
00:43:28,009 --> 00:43:29,009
Stop, stop, stop.

677
00:43:34,750 --> 00:43:36,489
So what do I tell Ben and Rachel?

678
00:43:37,550 --> 00:43:38,809
Sorry, Christmas is cancelled.

679
00:43:41,809 --> 00:43:43,230
Oh, Murph, I missed you.

680
00:43:44,669 --> 00:43:45,730
I missed you.

681
00:43:49,099 --> 00:43:50,199
I'm sorry.

682
00:43:51,739 --> 00:43:52,739
I'm sorry.

683
00:43:57,349 --> 00:43:58,690
Christmas back on then.

684
00:44:02,150 --> 00:44:04,289
As long as I don't have to
do any bloody counseling.

685
00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:11,500
♪

686
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
♪

687
00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:36,500
♪

688
00:44:36,750 --> 00:44:38,000
♪

689
00:44:53,109 --> 00:44:54,109
Jack.

690
00:44:54,949 --> 00:44:56,149
Oh, my God.

691
00:44:56,669 --> 00:44:58,250
Well, I thought you'd
never hurry up and

692
00:44:58,250 --> 00:45:00,909
find my mum unless I came
and helped you out.

693
00:45:01,309 --> 00:45:02,309
Oh.

694
00:45:03,429 --> 00:45:04,730
Come in, come in.

695
00:45:06,289 --> 00:45:07,849
So, uh, just got here.

696
00:45:18,150 --> 00:45:19,150
Stress

697
00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:22,760
I don't think I can do that, yeah.

698
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,940
Yeah, it's number 71

699
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:36,800
Yeah, no.

700
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,539
Well, I'd be very grateful if
she could give me a call.

701
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,760
Yeah, it's Margaret Humphreys.

702
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,000
Yes.

703
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:10,500
♪

704
00:46:19,699 --> 00:46:20,960
So, where are we off to?

705
00:46:22,059 --> 00:46:23,059
Right.

706
00:46:23,859 --> 00:46:26,960
We're picking up Nicky from work,
and we're driving to Tyneside.

707
00:46:27,819 --> 00:46:28,819
Righto.

708
00:46:43,150 --> 00:46:44,450
You a Jack?

709
00:46:46,090 --> 00:46:47,130
You a little Jack?

710
00:46:48,329 --> 00:46:49,329
Oh my God.

711
00:46:50,430 --> 00:46:51,610
You used to sit on me lap.

712
00:46:53,789 --> 00:46:54,789
Well you know me.

713
00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:59,220
Well, you knew me when
I was a little boy.

714
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,360
Yeah.

715
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:01,940
-Yeah, yeah.
-I can see you now.

716
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:07,840
And you and Nicky.

717
00:47:10,019 --> 00:47:11,739
So you knew her mother?

718
00:47:12,659 --> 00:47:13,659
Yeah.

719
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:14,860
Oh, she was lovely.

720
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:16,760
Where's she now?

721
00:47:18,519 --> 00:47:19,780
Well, we don't know.

722
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:20,900
We lost her.

723
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,960
Oh, we don't remember, because
we're in children's homes.

724
00:47:25,380 --> 00:47:26,380
Oh, now, wait a minute.

725
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:27,480
That can't be right.

726
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,039
Well, a woman I knew would never have
put her children in a horn.

727
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:37,920
She lived for that little
boy and girl.

728
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,880
Well, you think that maybe
if her relationship broke

729
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:46,039
down and she was on her own and
she couldn't cope, she...

730
00:47:46,039 --> 00:47:48,480
No, she wouldn't have ever been
more stuck with the babies.

731
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:50,740
She wouldn't? No, while there
was breath in her body.

732
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,099
Well, they sent us away, so we...

733
00:47:53,099 --> 00:47:54,920
She wouldn't have been
able to find us.

734
00:47:57,900 --> 00:47:58,900
See?

735
00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:03,860
That would have broken her into bits.

736
00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:12,779
What was she like?

737
00:48:14,779 --> 00:48:16,019
What did she look like?

738
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:19,440
Let me think.

739
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:21,559
She looks...

740
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:23,339
she looked a bit like you, actually.

741
00:48:37,349 --> 00:48:41,569
claiming thousands of kids have been deported
without their parents' consent.

742
00:48:42,170 --> 00:48:44,809
Now, we will be taking your calls
for all of those questions.

743
00:48:45,409 --> 00:48:48,809
Today, denied allegations surrounding
their children's home have been due.

744
00:48:49,569 --> 00:48:51,029
The brothers are finding that the claims
of these children have been false.

745
00:48:51,029 --> 00:48:53,269
Neither the British nor
the government here in

746
00:48:53,269 --> 00:48:56,369
Australia have taken any responsibility
for this.

747
00:48:56,730 --> 00:48:57,989
How would you describe it?

748
00:48:58,489 --> 00:48:59,489
Deportation?

749
00:49:00,309 --> 00:49:01,309
Yes.

750
00:49:01,569 --> 00:49:06,250
It's clearly the organized deportation of
children from one country to another.

751
00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:11,889
And neither the charities nor the
church organizations that ran

752
00:49:11,889 --> 00:49:15,909
those schemes have been prepared to
admit that any mistakes were made.

753
00:49:30,170 --> 00:49:31,570
How about a speech, migrant?

754
00:49:32,630 --> 00:49:33,630
Oh, no.

755
00:49:33,849 --> 00:49:35,070
No, no, really.

756
00:49:35,150 --> 00:49:36,150
Um, all right.

757
00:49:36,150 --> 00:49:39,909
Thank you. Well, I want to say
thank you to all of you.

758
00:49:40,590 --> 00:49:45,510
Um, this is the proper launch
of the Child Migrants Trust.

759
00:49:46,570 --> 00:49:48,789
And it has a home now, this house.

760
00:49:49,809 --> 00:49:51,650
And without all of the
donations and without

761
00:49:51,650 --> 00:49:53,929
all of you, none of this would
have been possible.

762
00:49:54,730 --> 00:49:57,809
Um, so thank you for giving
me an office in it.

763
00:49:58,849 --> 00:50:01,469
And, um, I'm really glad
I don't have to

764
00:50:01,469 --> 00:50:03,750
spend another day working
in that hotel room.

765
00:50:10,349 --> 00:50:11,630
Do you want to grab some food?

766
00:50:14,389 --> 00:50:15,389
Cup of tea?

767
00:50:20,789 --> 00:50:22,449
Ah, I'm heading off.

768
00:50:22,789 --> 00:50:23,789
I've got a long drive home.

769
00:50:24,369 --> 00:50:25,549
Are you sure, James?

770
00:50:25,769 --> 00:50:28,009
Yeah, I don't know any
of these people.

771
00:50:28,690 --> 00:50:30,049
I'm sorry, I don't want
to spoil your party.

772
00:50:30,289 --> 00:50:31,289
You don't know any of them?

773
00:50:31,849 --> 00:50:32,849
Well, yeah, yeah.

774
00:50:32,929 --> 00:50:35,610
I know the Indian boys, of course.

775
00:50:39,949 --> 00:50:40,949
See you, mate.

776
00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:57,700
Margaret Humphries.

777
00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:00,580
Listen you bitch, you tell those

778
00:51:00,580 --> 00:51:03,280
winching bastards to stop
talking about Bindoon.

779
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:07,180
If they tell one more lie about
the brothers, just one

780
00:51:07,180 --> 00:51:10,380
more, we're coming over there and
I'll fucking finish you myself.

781
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:21,119
Do you enjoy running this slanderous
publicity machine of yours?

782
00:51:21,579 --> 00:51:24,339
I'm afraid I don't recognize that
description of my work.

783
00:51:24,759 --> 00:51:28,239
I don't represent any newspaper
or any television station.

784
00:51:29,099 --> 00:51:31,679
But you'll happily declare your
wild allegations to anyone.

785
00:51:32,179 --> 00:51:34,480
I haven't made any direct allegations
to the press.

786
00:51:35,339 --> 00:51:38,399
Some of the boys who were sent
to your children's home at

787
00:51:38,399 --> 00:51:41,000
Bindu chose to speak to the press
when they were approached.

788
00:51:41,759 --> 00:51:44,239
But none of those contacts
were initiated by me.

789
00:51:46,319 --> 00:51:47,319
Well...

790
00:51:48,379 --> 00:51:52,839
Since you stirred things
up, the Christian

791
00:51:52,839 --> 00:51:54,599
brothers have been forced
to conduct an

792
00:51:54,599 --> 00:51:57,879
internal inquiry into the boys'
towns at Bindu and elsewhere.

793
00:51:58,779 --> 00:52:01,859
Now, have you any idea
how much distress you

794
00:52:01,859 --> 00:52:05,000
have caused to elderly men
who only sought the best?

795
00:52:05,059 --> 00:52:07,859
I'm hearing an awful lot about the
distress caused to the brothers.

796
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,939
No-one's talking about the
distress caused to

797
00:52:10,939 --> 00:52:13,219
the children who were supposed
to be in their care.

798
00:52:22,699 --> 00:52:24,419
You're doing alright
there, aren't you?

799
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,619
Are they, uh, paying
you okay, are they?

800
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,000
This probably isn't the best way to
start this conversation, is it?

801
00:52:37,050 --> 00:52:39,730
I don't think you'd like me
very much, Mrs. Humphreys.

802
00:52:41,030 --> 00:52:42,030
All right.

803
00:52:42,110 --> 00:52:43,310
I'll be honest with you, Len.

804
00:52:45,289 --> 00:52:49,850
I don't know about the man sitting
opposite me, but I'm sure that

805
00:52:49,850 --> 00:52:52,890
there's a hurt little boy somewhere
inside that I'd like very much.

806
00:52:53,630 --> 00:52:55,350
We're just going to have to
take the time to find him.

807
00:52:58,950 --> 00:53:02,110
And how do I know that you're qualified
to do that, Mrs. Humphreys?

808
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,580
You'll have to make your own judgment
on that, Mr. Connolly.

809
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,200
You'll just have to trust me.

810
00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:15,500
♪

811
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,720
It's Len Connolly's first step
on Australia over there.

812
00:53:23,699 --> 00:53:26,239
Then we're processed in here.

813
00:53:28,650 --> 00:53:30,990
All these little kids quaking
and shaking and

814
00:53:30,990 --> 00:53:32,530
wondering what on earth they've
been dropped into

815
00:53:34,430 --> 00:53:38,110
Brothers were sent one way
Sisters another they're

816
00:53:38,110 --> 00:53:42,010
all crying into their sleeves thinking
I can't be this out all the time

817
00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:48,679
Then we were put on the
buses out here.

818
00:53:49,539 --> 00:53:52,259
When I shoved onto one of them, I realised
Teresa wasn't coming with us.

819
00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:56,440
She was one of the girls who looked
after us on the way over.

820
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:58,339
She was taking a shine to me.

821
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:01,900
Yeah, I was just a little
scrap, you know.

822
00:54:01,940 --> 00:54:03,799
She made a bit of a pet of
me on the voyage over.

823
00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:07,200
I think I charmed her.

824
00:54:08,820 --> 00:54:11,680
So when I realized Teresa wasn't
coming, I went crazy.

825
00:54:11,820 --> 00:54:14,360
Didn't I? I went mad. Fighting
to get to the back.

826
00:54:14,500 --> 00:54:16,880
I was climbing over everything
trying to get to her.

827
00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:22,000
♪

828
00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:24,920
Anyway, by the end of that day, I
was with the Christian brothers.

829
00:54:26,559 --> 00:54:27,940
They'd taken all my clothes.

830
00:54:28,059 --> 00:54:32,000
They gave me an old shirt and a pair
of shorts to wear, and, uh...

831
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:34,659
I was cleaning out the rubbish
pit at Bindoon.

832
00:54:41,599 --> 00:54:42,599
Yeah, come on.

833
00:54:43,799 --> 00:54:45,059
Look, we don't need to
talk about that.

834
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:46,279
I just want to find my mother.

835
00:54:46,319 --> 00:54:47,319
That's it.

836
00:54:47,319 --> 00:54:48,420
Help me with that if you can.

837
00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:49,920
I don't need anything else.

838
00:54:50,059 --> 00:54:51,659
I'm not offering anything else.

839
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:52,900
That's not my place.

840
00:54:52,940 --> 00:54:57,139
All I'm asking is have you imagine what
it might be like if you do find her.

841
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,019
Well, let's just find her
first, all right?

842
00:54:59,799 --> 00:55:02,299
We'll try, but what do you want?

843
00:55:02,559 --> 00:55:06,380
To find her, to know who she
is, to know who I am.

844
00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:09,119
You've got absolutely no hopes
or expectations beyond that.

845
00:55:09,119 --> 00:55:14,019
Look, Mrs. Humphreys, I'm
sure that you see old

846
00:55:14,019 --> 00:55:16,239
boys and girls day in, day
out, bawling their eyes

847
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,779
out, telling you how much they
miss their dear old mum.

848
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:21,880
Well, the truth is, our mum
shot through, didn't she?

849
00:55:22,839 --> 00:55:26,199
We didn't just fall out of our prams
and fly off with Peter Pan, did we?

850
00:55:26,299 --> 00:55:28,159
No, our mums didn't want us.

851
00:55:28,179 --> 00:55:29,179
That's why we're here.

852
00:55:29,179 --> 00:55:30,179
Isn't that the truth?

853
00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:35,000
No, the truth is actually much more
complicated in most cases.

854
00:55:35,059 --> 00:55:36,059
No, she didn't want me.

855
00:55:36,059 --> 00:55:37,380
She put me in a children's home.

856
00:55:37,460 --> 00:55:38,460
Well, that's all right.

857
00:55:39,299 --> 00:55:40,779
Let's just put a face to the old deal.

858
00:55:41,980 --> 00:55:43,739
Oh, I can sit here all
day, if you like, and

859
00:55:43,739 --> 00:55:45,819
bleed on about what a hard life
I had of been through.

860
00:55:48,050 --> 00:55:49,430
Let's talk about Bindu.

861
00:55:51,269 --> 00:55:54,390
Mrs. Humphreys, I've paid my debts.

862
00:55:54,789 --> 00:55:58,150
I've sourced the brothers' farm
tools through my company.

863
00:55:58,870 --> 00:56:01,090
I've made donations to the
Christian Brothers.

864
00:56:01,130 --> 00:56:02,130
I've paid my debts.

865
00:56:02,130 --> 00:56:03,130
Your debts?

866
00:56:03,470 --> 00:56:04,470
What do you owe them?

867
00:56:04,510 --> 00:56:05,510
Oh, I don't.

868
00:56:05,830 --> 00:56:07,490
Look, they raised me,
they fed me, they

869
00:56:07,490 --> 00:56:09,590
clothed me, whatever, and
I've paid it all back.

870
00:56:10,450 --> 00:56:14,130
I don't see how an-year-old
boy who's working to grow

871
00:56:14,130 --> 00:56:17,810
his own food, who has one pair
of shorts, one shirt,

872
00:56:17,910 --> 00:56:20,289
no shoes, can be said to be
running up much of a debt.

873
00:56:20,390 --> 00:56:22,090
Well, no one can say I
owe them anything.

874
00:56:22,250 --> 00:56:23,430
No, I don't think you do.

875
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:28,659
But maybe that's the monster
living in your head.

876
00:56:32,300 --> 00:56:34,200
I don't like the idea of you walking

877
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,019
around with a monster like
that in your head.

878
00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:42,000
♪

879
00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:05,500
♪

880
00:57:06,349 --> 00:57:11,630
I'm afraid this won't do I'm here to give
somebody some really important news.

881
00:57:11,769 --> 00:57:13,190
They're gonna remember
this day for the rest

882
00:57:13,190 --> 00:57:16,809
of their lives Can you show
me something else

883
00:57:23,500 --> 00:57:28,500
♪

884
00:57:28,750 --> 00:57:30,000
♪

885
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
♪

886
00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:50,500
♪

887
00:57:50,750 --> 00:57:52,000
♪

888
00:57:59,430 --> 00:58:00,430
Jack.

889
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,400
Take a seat.

890
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,480
That's that's beautiful

891
00:58:28,750 --> 00:58:33,989
So, Murph telephoned me last night and

892
00:58:33,989 --> 00:58:35,849
we've had the results of
our latest search.

893
00:58:38,250 --> 00:58:39,730
Yeah, if you found my mother.

894
00:58:40,230 --> 00:58:41,230
Yes.

895
00:58:50,150 --> 00:58:51,210
We were too late.

896
00:58:51,269 --> 00:58:52,269
She's dead, isn't she?

897
00:58:52,910 --> 00:58:53,910
Yes, she is.

898
00:58:53,970 --> 00:58:54,970
Yeah.

899
00:59:21,879 --> 00:59:23,179
When did she die?

900
00:59:24,579 --> 00:59:25,579
Last year.

901
00:59:26,219 --> 00:59:27,219
Oh.

902
00:59:30,550 --> 00:59:31,550
Oh,

903
00:59:33,230 --> 00:59:35,170
we were just too late then.

904
00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:57,000
♪

905
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:17,500
♪

906
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,140
Mrs. Humphreys, no one
is suggesting for a

907
01:00:21,140 --> 01:00:24,200
minute that the people you represent
have not suffered.

908
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,740
But this has to be placed in
its historical context.

909
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,100
What was done was done with
the very best intentions.

910
01:00:34,580 --> 01:00:39,620
These children were placed in children's
homes without casting any blame.

911
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,340
Their family situations
were far from ideal.

912
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,180
A more modern sensibility
might suggest greater

913
01:00:46,180 --> 01:00:48,380
effort should have been made
to keep families together.

914
01:00:48,540 --> 01:00:51,280
But at the time, it was genuinely
believed to be in

915
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,580
the children's interest to
give them a fresh start.

916
01:00:54,460 --> 01:00:57,400
Ultimately, these children were in the
care of the British government.

917
01:00:58,100 --> 01:01:00,660
And it was the governments of
Australia and Britain who

918
01:01:00,660 --> 01:01:02,840
were responsible for authorizing
the migration schemes.

919
01:01:02,900 --> 01:01:05,440
And if we're talking about historical
context, I'll remind

920
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,220
you that the last migrants were
only shipped out 17 years ago.

921
01:01:08,539 --> 01:01:10,700
But we're not here for recriminations.

922
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:11,800
There's no need for that.

923
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,820
Now the Child Migrants Trust
has been created.

924
01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:20,340
We can offer you an opportunity
to redress some of

925
01:01:20,340 --> 01:01:23,400
the damage for which your organizations
were responsible.

926
01:01:25,869 --> 01:01:29,629
These people were deported as
children, young children.

927
01:01:30,250 --> 01:01:33,549
They've been deprived of their
family, their identity.

928
01:01:34,429 --> 01:01:37,529
They need to find the
families they lost.

929
01:01:38,349 --> 01:01:40,989
I know that you'll all want
to help them do that.

930
01:01:46,650 --> 01:01:50,030
I think my organization
would be prepared to

931
01:01:50,030 --> 01:01:53,329
make a contribution if some
trustee arranged...

932
01:01:53,329 --> 01:01:54,910
You can't be a trustee.

933
01:01:56,630 --> 01:01:59,349
We have to be able to say to these

934
01:01:59,349 --> 01:02:02,829
children, well adults now,
that they're safe.

935
01:02:04,010 --> 01:02:05,970
It has to be a neutral service.

936
01:02:08,559 --> 01:02:14,059
What we are offering you, the government,
is an opportunity

937
01:02:14,059 --> 01:02:18,059
to take responsibility for what
happened to these children.

938
01:02:18,259 --> 01:02:20,199
If you could at least tell
us whether you have any

939
01:02:20,199 --> 01:02:22,799
records of the child migrants to
which you could give us access.

940
01:02:23,199 --> 01:02:25,539
The first came for over
100 years and I can

941
01:02:25,539 --> 01:02:27,819
assure you that we're doing
everything we can.

942
01:02:27,859 --> 01:02:30,500
Look, they just want to
know who they are.

943
01:02:46,599 --> 01:02:47,900
Well, we said it, didn't we?

944
01:02:48,299 --> 01:02:49,299
Oh, yes.

945
01:02:50,179 --> 01:02:51,179
Excuse me.

946
01:02:51,460 --> 01:02:52,460
Mrs. Humphreys.

947
01:02:53,779 --> 01:02:55,539
Can I just have a minute of your time?

948
01:02:56,519 --> 01:03:00,119
You say you're speaking as a
mother, but please, take

949
01:03:00,119 --> 01:03:02,759
consolation in your own family while
we're meddling with all this.

950
01:03:03,299 --> 01:03:05,000
I mean, how could you possibly
understand the

951
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,279
real circumstance of these
unfortunate children?

952
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,039
They were living in slums.

953
01:03:09,759 --> 01:03:11,839
They were children of tramps
and degenerates.

954
01:03:15,550 --> 01:03:18,230
So, you don't accept that the British
government has a case to answer?

955
01:03:18,269 --> 01:03:21,610
We have every sympathy with the feelings
of these former child migrants.

956
01:03:21,630 --> 01:03:22,970
But you take no responsibility?

957
01:03:23,269 --> 01:03:24,810
We have no actual responsibility.

958
01:03:25,330 --> 01:03:27,830
Whatever Margaret Humphreys
alleges, the fact is...

959
01:03:27,830 --> 01:03:30,130
They were the responsibility
of the British government.

960
01:03:30,410 --> 01:03:33,310
The fact is, this may have been
a distressing episode in

961
01:03:33,310 --> 01:03:36,050
history, but there is no profit
in playing the blame game.

962
01:03:36,070 --> 01:03:37,730
Right. Well, thank you
very much for that.

963
01:03:38,769 --> 01:03:39,810
We've got them rattled now.

964
01:03:40,789 --> 01:03:41,910
Legally, they're responsible.

965
01:03:42,050 --> 01:03:43,050
They know it, we know it.

966
01:03:43,670 --> 01:03:45,970
We find the paperwork that nails them.

967
01:03:46,370 --> 01:03:47,990
They know we will. They know
the paperwork's out there.

968
01:03:48,110 --> 01:03:49,110
Yeah.

969
01:03:49,750 --> 01:03:50,970
Well, I'm gonna find it, Margaret.

970
01:03:51,090 --> 01:03:52,090
You know I am.

971
01:03:52,430 --> 01:03:53,430
Yeah.

972
01:03:57,650 --> 01:03:58,650
You all right?

973
01:04:00,190 --> 01:04:01,190
Just tired.

974
01:04:01,769 --> 01:04:02,769
I've got an early start.

975
01:04:03,970 --> 01:04:05,210
Lent's flight gets in at six.

976
01:04:05,829 --> 01:04:06,829
Here, let me do that.

977
01:04:06,889 --> 01:04:08,889
No, no, no. Never let it be
said I didn't take care

978
01:04:08,889 --> 01:04:11,369
of my own family before I started
meddling with others.

979
01:04:11,490 --> 01:04:12,490
Hey. Hey.

980
01:04:23,849 --> 01:04:25,529
So it's just us now.

981
01:04:26,069 --> 01:04:27,069
No help coming.

982
01:04:27,409 --> 01:04:28,750
We keep putting them on the spot.

983
01:04:29,909 --> 01:04:32,250
But right now, it is just us.

984
01:04:38,230 --> 01:04:41,009
8,000 miles and I'll finally
get my turn trip back.

985
01:04:45,300 --> 01:04:47,060
As long as she accepts me, that's all.

986
01:04:48,039 --> 01:04:49,620
As long as she doesn't turn me away.

987
01:04:52,449 --> 01:04:55,750
I've got a very good memory,
you know, I, um...

988
01:04:55,750 --> 01:05:00,889
I remember walking up a green hill with,
uh, grass under my bare feet.

989
01:05:01,689 --> 01:05:04,269
There was someone pulling me by the hand
because I couldn't walk very well yet.

990
01:05:05,269 --> 01:05:06,269
I was angry.

991
01:05:07,189 --> 01:05:09,289
I was angry because I'd
been promised a penny

992
01:05:09,289 --> 01:05:11,049
or a sweetie or something,
and I didn't get it.

993
01:05:15,550 --> 01:05:17,630
It would have been her, wouldn't
it, holding my hand?

994
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:34,720
What's that?

995
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:37,120
It's a check.

996
01:05:37,180 --> 01:05:38,260
You can fill in what you like.

997
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:39,440
You can decide.

998
01:05:41,420 --> 01:05:43,160
You can have that or you
can have my loyalty.

999
01:05:43,300 --> 01:05:44,300
I don't mind witches.

1000
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:45,980
As long as we're square.

1001
01:06:22,050 --> 01:06:23,170
Oh, you see that?

1002
01:06:23,570 --> 01:06:24,750
-See that?
-She's in there.

1003
01:06:27,750 --> 01:06:29,150
You want me to go in with you?

1004
01:06:29,429 --> 01:06:30,429
No, no, no, no.

1005
01:06:30,429 --> 01:06:32,730
You'll be right in. No, get
yourself a cab back.

1006
01:06:33,610 --> 01:06:36,590
Or, um, is there a cafe up there
that we just passed?

1007
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,179
Thank you, Margaret.

1008
01:06:47,039 --> 01:06:48,039
Thank you.

1009
01:06:48,159 --> 01:06:49,159
You're very welcome.

1010
01:06:52,620 --> 01:06:53,620
What is it?

1011
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:06,500
♪

1012
01:07:06,750 --> 01:07:11,750
♪

1013
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:17,000
♪

1014
01:07:17,250 --> 01:07:22,250
♪

1015
01:07:22,500 --> 01:07:27,500
♪

1016
01:07:27,750 --> 01:07:32,750
♪

1017
01:07:34,500 --> 01:07:39,500
♪

1018
01:07:39,750 --> 01:07:43,000
♪

1019
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,140
The boys' home at Bindoon was
closed some time ago.

1020
01:08:14,519 --> 01:08:17,600
No, the Christian Brothers have been
victimised by these slanders.

1021
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:20,640
We are considering legal
action to prevent any

1022
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,779
more journalists trespassing
on church property.

1023
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:24,880
I heard you.

1024
01:08:25,579 --> 01:08:27,779
I don't think you can come to
Perth and tell any lies.

1025
01:08:27,980 --> 01:08:28,980
Excuse me?

1026
01:08:29,380 --> 01:08:30,720
The good brothers and sisters rent

1027
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,640
decent, loving homes for
those poor children.

1028
01:08:32,779 --> 01:08:34,060
I do not tell lies. Do
you know how much

1029
01:08:34,060 --> 01:08:35,840
you could hurt the Holy Fathers
with your lies?

1030
01:08:36,159 --> 01:08:37,579
I do not tell lies, ever.

1031
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:44,500
♪

1032
01:08:54,300 --> 01:08:57,800
It's Margaret Humphreys from the Child
Migrants Trust in Australia.

1033
01:08:59,420 --> 01:09:01,079
Yes, you'll know what it's regarding.

1034
01:09:01,239 --> 01:09:03,480
We've had extensive correspondence
on the subject.

1035
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:06,960
Yes.

1036
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,880
Well, I would like him
to return my call.

1037
01:09:11,820 --> 01:09:14,380
Yeah, and if he doesn't, I will
call you back tomorrow.

1038
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:15,600
Thank you.

1039
01:09:19,899 --> 01:09:20,899
You bitch!

1040
01:09:21,219 --> 01:09:22,920
You fuckin' evil whore!

1041
01:09:23,219 --> 01:09:24,339
Fuckin' open this window!

1042
01:09:27,699 --> 01:09:29,359
I'm gonna rip you apart!

1043
01:09:29,539 --> 01:09:30,539
I can get us...

1044
01:09:30,539 --> 01:09:31,659
I can get in any color!

1045
01:09:39,300 --> 01:09:40,300
Get out!

1046
01:09:43,350 --> 01:09:44,350
Ah!

1047
01:09:48,050 --> 01:09:51,130
I can't sleep, I can't get
to you, I can't get off!

1048
01:09:51,890 --> 01:09:52,890
I'll get you!

1049
01:09:59,819 --> 01:10:00,819
♪♪

1050
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:15,210
home?

1051
01:10:15,590 --> 01:10:17,029
No, I can't.

1052
01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:20,460
Call the police.

1053
01:10:20,659 --> 01:10:21,679
Get out of that house.

1054
01:10:23,260 --> 01:10:24,760
People are depending on me, Merv.

1055
01:10:28,350 --> 01:10:29,930
I've got a load of appointments.

1056
01:10:30,110 --> 01:10:31,110
I've got to go.

1057
01:10:32,110 --> 01:10:33,130
I'll call you back later.

1058
01:10:54,550 --> 01:10:57,130
I heard what I went out to bin
do with the camera crew.

1059
01:11:00,350 --> 01:11:01,770
Stir things up a bit.

1060
01:11:06,149 --> 01:11:07,969
You guys said you didn't
want to go alone.

1061
01:11:21,300 --> 01:11:22,480
-Here.
-Here.
-Stop!

1062
01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:31,000
♪

1063
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:40,820
I'll wait for you here.

1064
01:11:41,140 --> 01:11:42,440
No, you don't need to wait for me.

1065
01:11:42,500 --> 01:11:43,500
I'll get a taxi.

1066
01:11:45,079 --> 01:11:46,159
You really should get a car.

1067
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:47,360
No, you don't need a taxi.

1068
01:11:47,380 --> 01:11:48,699
You don't need a car.
I'll wait for you.

1069
01:11:53,050 --> 01:11:54,050
Thank you.

1070
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:06,760
Ah, here we go.

1071
01:12:13,199 --> 01:12:14,199
with that area.

1072
01:12:18,519 --> 01:12:19,519
Um, it's right.

1073
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:21,059
Right, the other right.

1074
01:12:27,500 --> 01:12:28,500
Sorry, man

1075
01:12:30,649 --> 01:12:31,909
Doing a bit of classic alone?

1076
01:12:38,789 --> 01:12:39,648
Say you wanna start

1077
01:12:39,649 --> 01:12:43,629
♪

1078
01:12:44,250 --> 01:12:49,769
♪

1079
01:12:49,769 --> 01:12:53,869
♪

1080
01:12:54,469 --> 01:12:56,229
♪

1081
01:12:56,229 --> 01:13:01,229
♪

1082
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:04,520
♪

1083
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:08,569
♪

1084
01:13:08,929 --> 01:13:11,769
♪

1085
01:13:14,949 --> 01:13:18,069
♪

1086
01:13:20,850 --> 01:13:22,490
♪

1087
01:13:23,050 --> 01:13:24,090
like a child

1088
01:13:27,500 --> 01:13:28,500
I see

1089
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:37,500
♪

1090
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:43,000
♪

1091
01:13:48,500 --> 01:13:52,000
♪

1092
01:13:52,699 --> 01:13:53,739
Jack, what are you doing here?

1093
01:13:55,300 --> 01:13:57,559
Well, Merv rang and asked
me to come over.

1094
01:13:57,659 --> 01:13:59,260
He thought you might need
a bit of company.

1095
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:00,760
What did he say?

1096
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,139
Well, he said you needed me here.

1097
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:10,000
♪

1098
01:14:10,250 --> 01:14:15,250
♪

1099
01:14:20,550 --> 01:14:21,730
It's all right, honey.

1100
01:14:21,930 --> 01:14:22,930
It's spring in your tea.

1101
01:14:23,489 --> 01:14:24,489
I'm sorry.

1102
01:14:28,300 --> 01:14:29,579
Is that everything you need?

1103
01:14:30,159 --> 01:14:31,159
Yeah.

1104
01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:33,159
I thought I might sleep
out on the veranda.

1105
01:14:33,900 --> 01:14:35,720
I don't much like sleeping
under a roof.

1106
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:36,920
All right.

1107
01:14:37,180 --> 01:14:38,180
Whatever you want.

1108
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:53,000
♪

1109
01:15:06,500 --> 01:15:11,000
♪

1110
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:23,000
♪

1111
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:31,000
♪

1112
01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:33,000
♪

1113
01:15:37,350 --> 01:15:38,530
You alright in there, Margaret?

1114
01:15:39,050 --> 01:15:40,050
Yeah.

1115
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:47,500
♪

1116
01:15:47,750 --> 01:15:52,000
♪

1117
01:15:58,600 --> 01:15:59,800
I can't breathe.

1118
01:16:00,340 --> 01:16:01,340
Huh?

1119
01:16:01,660 --> 01:16:02,660
I can't breathe.

1120
01:16:02,820 --> 01:16:03,820
I can't breathe.

1121
01:16:03,820 --> 01:16:05,120
-You can't breathe?
-Yeah.

1122
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:08,660
It's my heart.

1123
01:16:08,860 --> 01:16:09,860
It's my heart.

1124
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:10,940
Hold on, darling.

1125
01:16:15,199 --> 01:16:17,179
Sit down and eat your cereal.

1126
01:16:23,890 --> 01:16:24,890
Rachel?

1127
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:31,000
♪

1128
01:16:31,250 --> 01:16:33,000
♪

1129
01:16:39,449 --> 01:16:44,309
Tell them you have to stay here
Tell them you belong to us

1130
01:16:47,500 --> 01:16:52,500
♪

1131
01:16:52,750 --> 01:16:54,250
♪

1132
01:16:54,250 --> 01:16:56,649
And John...

1133
01:16:56,649 --> 01:16:58,369
Look, my darling, it's just...

1134
01:17:03,750 --> 01:17:05,109
I'm taking you to the doctor.

1135
01:17:05,630 --> 01:17:06,630
I don't need to go to the doctor.

1136
01:17:06,630 --> 01:17:07,630
I'm taking you.

1137
01:17:08,329 --> 01:17:11,170
Well, for God's sake, I can
get myself to the doctor.

1138
01:17:19,449 --> 01:17:22,029
Look, I only came because
my husband insisted.

1139
01:17:22,289 --> 01:17:24,550
I... I just wanted to set
his mind at rest.

1140
01:17:24,630 --> 01:17:25,769
I know there's nothing wrong with me.

1141
01:17:26,369 --> 01:17:28,170
And you have post-traumatic
stress disorder.

1142
01:17:29,250 --> 01:17:30,970
I'm sorry, but that is rubbish.

1143
01:17:32,510 --> 01:17:33,550
Nothing happened to me.

1144
01:17:33,630 --> 01:17:34,630
It all happened to them.

1145
01:17:36,189 --> 01:17:39,809
Absorbing other people's pain
is a stress of its own.

1146
01:17:42,350 --> 01:17:43,789
I can't stop.

1147
01:17:45,030 --> 01:17:46,070
There's no one else.

1148
01:17:46,270 --> 01:17:47,270
If I...

1149
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:26,000
♪

1150
01:18:26,250 --> 01:18:31,000
♪

1151
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,000
♪

1152
01:19:10,500 --> 01:19:16,500
♪

1153
01:19:36,770 --> 01:19:40,090
I am a great maid, I can
hardly stand to argue.

1154
01:19:41,050 --> 01:19:42,510
And she hasn't stopped.

1155
01:19:43,050 --> 01:19:45,449
Oh Margaret, lovely to see you.

1156
01:19:47,810 --> 01:19:51,170
Margaret, I hope you don't mind
us dropping in on you.

1157
01:19:51,649 --> 01:19:56,649
I was just telling them, Margaret,
we had such a good day.

1158
01:19:56,810 --> 01:19:59,250
I really wanted to invite you,
but we know you're so busy.

1159
01:20:00,189 --> 01:20:03,729
Thirty years I was working at that pub,
and they never knew I had a daughter.

1160
01:20:03,729 --> 01:20:06,130
She was really keen for me to
come over for the retirement

1161
01:20:06,130 --> 01:20:09,210
party, but we didn't know what
we were going to tell people.

1162
01:20:09,310 --> 01:20:10,609
And then Bill says...

1163
01:20:10,609 --> 01:20:11,729
Bill's one of the regulars.

1164
01:20:11,829 --> 01:20:13,710
Who's this lovely young lady Vera?

1165
01:20:14,930 --> 01:20:16,930
He's ancient, see, so...

1166
01:20:16,930 --> 01:20:20,029
And I said, this is my daughter, Bill.

1167
01:20:20,850 --> 01:20:22,109
My daughter, Charlotte.

1168
01:20:23,050 --> 01:20:24,050
And he says...

1169
01:20:24,050 --> 01:20:25,050
Never even blinked.

1170
01:20:25,390 --> 01:20:26,550
She looks just like you.

1171
01:20:26,949 --> 01:20:27,949
He could tell.

1172
01:20:27,949 --> 01:20:28,949
Anyone could tell.

1173
01:20:29,869 --> 01:20:31,970
And there we were, in
front of them all.

1174
01:20:32,829 --> 01:20:34,729
Together, mother and daughter.

1175
01:20:35,810 --> 01:20:37,310
I tell you, Margaret...

1176
01:20:37,310 --> 01:20:38,710
It was the happiest moment of my life.

1177
01:20:38,710 --> 01:20:39,710
Of my life.

1178
01:20:39,789 --> 01:20:41,510
Both of us, we just...

1179
01:20:41,910 --> 01:20:43,369
We just felt...

1180
01:20:46,779 --> 01:20:47,960
-Whole.
-At last.

1181
01:20:49,359 --> 01:20:50,359
Nothing missing.

1182
01:20:51,359 --> 01:20:53,339
And I said we have to come
and tell Margaret this.

1183
01:20:53,460 --> 01:20:55,799
But we didn't even know if you'd
be here, you're so busy.

1184
01:20:57,159 --> 01:20:59,539
So, when are you back
off to Australia?

1185
01:21:03,279 --> 01:21:05,139
Well, as soon as this
lot can spare me.

1186
01:21:12,500 --> 01:21:18,500
♪

1187
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,480
There's a chilled chardonnay
on the table there for you.

1188
01:21:31,940 --> 01:21:32,940
Margaret River.

1189
01:21:33,039 --> 01:21:34,860
Bit young, but hitting
its stride, I reckon.

1190
01:21:35,260 --> 01:21:36,840
I didn't come here to drink, Len.

1191
01:21:37,539 --> 01:21:38,900
I thought you wanted to talk.

1192
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:40,800
Yeah, I've got some soup, too.

1193
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:41,880
It's home-cooked.

1194
01:21:43,100 --> 01:21:44,260
I can cook, you know.

1195
01:21:44,579 --> 01:21:45,579
I'm sure you can.

1196
01:21:45,940 --> 01:21:47,120
You look hungry enough.

1197
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:48,720
I've already eaten.

1198
01:21:48,820 --> 01:21:50,539
What was it you wanted to say?

1199
01:21:51,980 --> 01:21:54,260
You're a difficult woman to
entertain, Mrs Humphreys.

1200
01:21:58,710 --> 01:21:59,710
Nice, huh?

1201
01:22:18,699 --> 01:22:23,979
Look, um, all this TV coverage has
stirred everything up, Margaret.

1202
01:22:24,199 --> 01:22:26,239
It's, uh, got the boys talking.

1203
01:22:27,579 --> 01:22:31,500
And, um, look, I've been watching
how the boys are around you.

1204
01:22:31,579 --> 01:22:35,000
And, uh, not speaking out of turn,
you know what I'm talking about.

1205
01:22:35,179 --> 01:22:38,199
Um, you're like a sister to them.

1206
01:22:39,579 --> 01:22:41,920
You're family after everything
you've done.

1207
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:45,579
You know, the only family most
of us will ever have anyway.

1208
01:22:45,979 --> 01:22:48,059
I'm not sure that family's
really the right word.

1209
01:22:48,059 --> 01:22:49,500
Well, that's how we feel.

1210
01:22:51,850 --> 01:22:55,390
No, but you're right, it's,
um, it's not real.

1211
01:22:57,570 --> 01:22:59,090
Because you haven't been
there, have you?

1212
01:23:00,390 --> 01:23:03,829
You've heard about our childhood, but
you haven't touched our childhood.

1213
01:23:04,770 --> 01:23:05,770
Because you haven't been there.

1214
01:23:06,350 --> 01:23:07,350
Where?

1215
01:23:07,650 --> 01:23:08,650
To Bindoon.

1216
01:23:11,500 --> 01:23:14,819
I'm asking you to come
to Bindoon with me.

1217
01:23:21,410 --> 01:23:22,989
Have a think about it a moment.

1218
01:23:23,409 --> 01:23:27,329
Look, Len, what you all suffered at

1219
01:23:27,329 --> 01:23:31,630
Bindoon, that's your history,
but it's not mine.

1220
01:23:34,889 --> 01:23:40,869
I, I, I have to be careful,
I, I'm not, um, it

1221
01:23:40,869 --> 01:23:43,349
wouldn't be appropriate for me to
get too close to all of that.

1222
01:23:46,350 --> 01:23:47,730
Well, it wouldn't be right.

1223
01:23:48,070 --> 01:23:49,230
No, no, you'll be right.

1224
01:23:49,250 --> 01:23:50,250
I'll look after you.

1225
01:23:50,329 --> 01:23:52,150
No, Len, I don't want to.

1226
01:23:54,329 --> 01:23:57,430
I don't have to go there,
and I don't want to.

1227
01:23:59,850 --> 01:24:02,250
Okay, okay, but you look at it from
the old boy's point of view.

1228
01:24:03,050 --> 01:24:05,210
That's like saying that you can't
look at who they are.

1229
01:24:07,150 --> 01:24:08,370
Is that what they're saying?

1230
01:24:08,990 --> 01:24:10,430
Well, you overthink about
it, Margaret.

1231
01:24:12,810 --> 01:24:14,590
Maybe that's the monster
living in your head.

1232
01:24:16,430 --> 01:24:20,230
I'd like to think of you walking around
with a monster like that in your head.

1233
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:34,000
♪

1234
01:24:34,250 --> 01:24:38,500
♪

1235
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:44,500
♪

1236
01:24:45,550 --> 01:24:47,449
Well, we should be there
in a couple of hours.

1237
01:24:48,570 --> 01:24:50,610
It used to take six before
they graded the road.

1238
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:54,900
God, you should have seen
her, 40 or 50 little

1239
01:24:54,900 --> 01:24:56,820
nippers bouncing around
in the back of an open

1240
01:24:56,820 --> 01:25:00,039
truck, eating dust and flies,
crying for their mums.

1241
01:25:01,420 --> 01:25:03,280
We thought we'd been dropped off
at the end of the earth.

1242
01:25:04,500 --> 01:25:09,500
♪

1243
01:25:09,750 --> 01:25:14,750
♪

1244
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:16,500
♪

1245
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:21,000
♪

1246
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:26,000
♪

1247
01:25:48,750 --> 01:25:49,750
All right.

1248
01:26:11,149 --> 01:26:12,710
Save from here first

1249
01:26:40,659 --> 01:26:41,659
They're what you expected?

1250
01:26:43,079 --> 01:26:44,460
I didn't know it would be so big.

1251
01:26:46,850 --> 01:26:50,789
And I didn't know it would
be so beautiful The

1252
01:26:50,789 --> 01:26:52,950
boys put every stone of
that building together

1253
01:26:58,750 --> 01:27:03,310
The cement would burn your
feet, with no shoes.

1254
01:27:04,829 --> 01:27:09,250
Cement would burn the cuts on our feet
and the sores on our hands and knees.

1255
01:27:10,289 --> 01:27:15,550
All day, in blazing heat,
no rest, no water.

1256
01:27:16,489 --> 01:27:20,170
I was nine years old and I was lifting

1257
01:27:20,170 --> 01:27:23,149
rocks the size of my upper body.

1258
01:27:24,850 --> 01:27:28,430
And he's yelling at us, you weak,

1259
01:27:28,569 --> 01:27:31,489
weak, pitiful sons of whores.

1260
01:27:32,609 --> 01:27:34,869
We built stations of the cross.

1261
01:27:36,210 --> 01:27:38,010
But who was crucified, huh?

1262
01:27:38,529 --> 01:27:39,529
Tell me that.

1263
01:27:42,039 --> 01:27:43,039
You all right to go down?

1264
01:27:44,939 --> 01:27:46,220
I suppose they don't let us in.

1265
01:27:47,420 --> 01:27:49,220
There's a swimming pool at
the back of the building.

1266
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:50,479
I paid for it.

1267
01:27:50,899 --> 01:27:51,899
They'll let us in.

1268
01:28:26,100 --> 01:28:29,860
He had this, he had this
big knobby stick

1269
01:28:30,480 --> 01:28:34,120
and he would crack you over
the skull with it.

1270
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,400
Feather belts, fan belt
for the tractor.

1271
01:28:39,780 --> 01:28:41,420
Anything to give you a good
wallop, you know.

1272
01:28:45,530 --> 01:28:47,870
They'll all still be having their breakfast,
if you feel like a cup of tea.

1273
01:28:50,270 --> 01:28:51,270
It's nice.

1274
01:29:32,699 --> 01:29:34,019
Good morning, brothers.

1275
01:29:39,869 --> 01:29:41,909
I've, uh, brought Mrs. Humphreys
here to have a

1276
01:29:41,909 --> 01:29:43,189
look around the old place,
if that's all right.

1277
01:29:47,750 --> 01:29:48,750
I'm trying.

1278
01:30:06,199 --> 01:30:07,199
Very good.

1279
01:30:12,250 --> 01:30:13,829
Is there any chance of a cuppa?

1280
01:30:54,690 --> 01:30:57,150
We can do better than a chipped
cup, can't we, brother?

1281
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,180
We'd hear one of the brothers come in.

1282
01:31:08,420 --> 01:31:10,279
Just his footsteps on
the wooden floor.

1283
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:16,619
You'd be lying there in the wet sheets,
and you're thinking, please, God.

1284
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:19,380
Please, God, don't let it be me.

1285
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:23,699
He would make you strip naked and get

1286
01:31:23,699 --> 01:31:27,920
on the tables with everybody
watching him.

1287
01:31:29,500 --> 01:31:30,739
I don't know where I thought
I could run to.

1288
01:31:30,820 --> 01:31:31,860
There's nothing there for miles.

1289
01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:37,980
He came after me on horseback,
and when he caught me,

1290
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:44,220
He tied me to a tree, and he, uh...

1291
01:31:48,500 --> 01:31:53,000
♪

1292
01:31:53,750 --> 01:31:55,310
You probably can't believe me

1293
01:31:56,000 --> 01:32:00,500
♪

1294
01:32:03,750 --> 01:32:05,270
Of course I believe you.

1295
01:32:13,300 --> 01:32:15,360
The fuck are right with me, Margaret?

1296
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:21,699
I think you might have forgotten
something, brother.

1297
01:32:25,839 --> 01:32:26,920
I'll fix it up, Sean.

1298
01:32:29,500 --> 01:32:34,500
♪

1299
01:32:34,750 --> 01:32:37,500
♪

1300
01:32:42,100 --> 01:32:45,820
Didn't matter if he'd split your skull
open and keep whacking away.

1301
01:32:47,260 --> 01:32:48,560
You just thought...

1302
01:32:57,600 --> 01:32:59,880
Who's gonna, who's gonna
look after me?

1303
01:33:02,579 --> 01:33:03,599
Who's going to look after me?

1304
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:04,840
I'm nobody.

1305
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:11,000
♪

1306
01:33:28,949 --> 01:33:30,809
Have I disturbed you, brothers?

1307
01:33:32,949 --> 01:33:34,409
Have I threatened you?

1308
01:33:37,300 --> 01:33:39,320
What have you got to be frightened of?

1309
01:33:40,539 --> 01:33:42,119
Grown men like you.

1310
01:33:48,500 --> 01:33:53,500
♪

1311
01:33:53,750 --> 01:33:56,500
♪

1312
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:06,000
♪

1313
01:34:06,250 --> 01:34:07,500
♪

1314
01:34:21,250 --> 01:34:22,350
What was that Mark?

1315
01:34:24,819 --> 01:34:26,659
Can't see another house,
nothing but bush.

1316
01:34:28,819 --> 01:34:30,099
No one would find you here.

1317
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:36,520
He'd wait for me after
dark, I don't know.

1318
01:34:38,180 --> 01:34:40,960
He took a sort of shine to me, I was a
favourite or something, I suppose.

1319
01:34:45,699 --> 01:34:48,500
You just think I'll live through
this, it'll stop one day.

1320
01:34:52,410 --> 01:34:53,449
But a year's.

1321
01:35:00,029 --> 01:35:01,029
Margaret, have a look at them.

1322
01:35:01,869 --> 01:35:02,869
Black cockatoo.

1323
01:35:03,670 --> 01:35:05,909
Ah, there'd be flocks of them
over here sometimes.

1324
01:35:06,529 --> 01:35:08,130
They'd sound like trains
going over your head.

1325
01:35:09,930 --> 01:35:10,930
You all right?

1326
01:35:11,570 --> 01:35:12,670
You've got a funny colour.

1327
01:35:13,329 --> 01:35:14,430
I'll just get you a drink.

1328
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:30,600
Take care.

1329
01:35:33,250 --> 01:35:34,649
-You all right?
-I'm fine.

1330
01:35:34,729 --> 01:35:35,729
It's just the heat.

1331
01:35:35,930 --> 01:35:36,930
OK.

1332
01:35:37,369 --> 01:35:40,149
You know, your problem, Mrs. H, you don't
look after yourself properly.

1333
01:35:41,010 --> 01:35:42,329
You won't let anyone
else do it, either.

1334
01:35:42,329 --> 01:35:44,369
No, it's not for anybody
else to look after me.

1335
01:35:44,449 --> 01:35:46,729
I've been loved and looked
after my entire life.

1336
01:35:47,210 --> 01:35:49,630
It's your turn now, but
you never get it.

1337
01:35:51,369 --> 01:35:53,609
Everybody thinks that there's
going to be this big

1338
01:35:53,609 --> 01:35:55,970
cathartic moment where all the
wrongs are righted and

1339
01:35:55,970 --> 01:35:57,770
all the wounds are healed, but
it's not going to happen.

1340
01:35:59,510 --> 01:36:01,729
I can't give you back
what you've lost.

1341
01:36:04,750 --> 01:36:06,850
Well, there's plenty of other
people in that boat.

1342
01:36:08,069 --> 01:36:09,449
Well, it's not enough, is it, Len?

1343
01:36:09,489 --> 01:36:10,489
It's never enough.

1344
01:36:14,550 --> 01:36:17,510
Yeah, his old Ben Dern had shook
you up all right, didn't he?

1345
01:36:17,850 --> 01:36:18,850
Oh, I'm fine.

1346
01:36:21,350 --> 01:36:22,789
Yeah, you should shake me up.

1347
01:36:22,829 --> 01:36:24,070
I'm the one who should be shaking.

1348
01:36:25,950 --> 01:36:27,850
But even if I was, even if I was...

1349
01:36:28,770 --> 01:36:31,390
lying here in the dirt, bawling
like a kid, I...

1350
01:36:32,350 --> 01:36:33,570
couldn't feel at all, could I?

1351
01:36:33,970 --> 01:36:34,970
Isn't that what you'd tell me?

1352
01:36:37,199 --> 01:36:39,059
I had to stop crying when I was eight.

1353
01:36:39,099 --> 01:36:40,179
I don't know how to start now.

1354
01:36:42,300 --> 01:36:43,300
But you feel it.

1355
01:36:45,099 --> 01:36:47,659
You feel it for all of us because
we can't, you do.

1356
01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:50,260
You're fighting for us, Margaret.

1357
01:36:50,359 --> 01:36:51,960
You're in there for us.
You're on our side.

1358
01:36:53,119 --> 01:36:54,479
So let the rest go.

1359
01:36:56,960 --> 01:36:58,659
Just let the rest go.

1360
01:37:01,100 --> 01:37:02,640
What you're doing is enough.

1361
01:37:06,350 --> 01:37:08,470
It's more than anyone else
has ever given me.

1362
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:14,000
♪

1363
01:37:14,250 --> 01:37:16,500
♪

1364
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:24,000
♪

1365
01:37:24,250 --> 01:37:29,250
♪

1366
01:37:29,500 --> 01:37:34,000
♪

1367
01:37:42,850 --> 01:37:43,850
Happy Christmas.

1368
01:37:45,490 --> 01:37:46,490
Thank you.

1369
01:37:47,310 --> 01:37:48,310
Happy Christmas.

1370
01:37:54,149 --> 01:37:55,509
Thank you.

1371
01:37:55,689 --> 01:37:56,689
Thank you.

1372
01:37:58,289 --> 01:37:59,769
Thank you.

1373
01:38:03,949 --> 01:38:04,949
Thank you.

1374
01:38:09,149 --> 01:38:10,149
There you are.

1375
01:38:10,509 --> 01:38:11,509
Happy Christmas.

1376
01:38:13,529 --> 01:38:15,329
So what are you going to give all
of us for Christmas, Ben?

1377
01:38:16,769 --> 01:38:17,809
I'll give you my mom.

1378
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:25,399
♪

1379
01:38:25,399 --> 01:38:26,399
It's how you did.

1380
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:30,019
It's how you did, darling,
and we love you for it.

1381
01:38:30,599 --> 01:38:31,599
Yeah.

1382
01:38:55,449 --> 01:38:57,489
Hey, don't you dare, don't
you dare do that.

1383
01:39:02,599 --> 01:39:04,039
What are you trying to do?

1384
01:39:06,500 --> 01:39:09,500
♪

1385
01:39:11,849 --> 01:39:12,849
I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

1386
01:39:12,949 --> 01:39:13,970
I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

1387
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:27,000
♪

1388
01:39:27,250 --> 01:39:28,500
♪

1389
01:39:29,500 --> 01:39:34,500
♪

1390
01:39:34,750 --> 01:39:39,750
♪

1391
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:45,000
♪

1392
01:39:45,250 --> 01:39:50,250
♪

1393
01:39:50,500 --> 01:39:55,500
♪

1394
01:39:55,750 --> 01:40:00,750
♪

1395
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:06,000
♪

1396
01:40:06,250 --> 01:40:11,250
♪

1397
01:40:11,500 --> 01:40:16,500
♪

1398
01:40:16,750 --> 01:40:21,750
♪

1399
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:27,000
♪

1400
01:40:27,250 --> 01:40:32,250
♪

1401
01:40:32,500 --> 01:40:37,500
♪

1402
01:40:37,750 --> 01:40:42,750
♪

1403
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:48,000
♪

1404
01:40:48,250 --> 01:40:53,250
♪

1405
01:40:53,500 --> 01:40:58,500
♪

1406
01:40:58,750 --> 01:41:03,750
♪

1407
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:09,000
♪

1408
01:41:09,250 --> 01:41:14,250
♪

1409
01:41:14,500 --> 01:41:19,500
♪

1410
01:41:19,750 --> 01:41:24,750
♪

1411
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:30,000
♪

1412
01:41:30,250 --> 01:41:35,250
♪

1413
01:41:35,500 --> 01:41:40,500
♪

1414
01:41:40,750 --> 01:41:45,750
♪

1415
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:49,000
♪

1416
01:41:49,500 --> 01:41:54,500
♪

1417
01:41:54,750 --> 01:41:59,750
♪

1418
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:05,000
♪

1419
01:42:05,250 --> 01:42:10,250
♪

1420
01:42:10,500 --> 01:42:15,500
♪

1421
01:42:15,750 --> 01:42:20,000
♪

1422
01:42:21,850 --> 01:42:25,930
♪

1423
01:42:25,930 --> 01:42:30,210
♪

1424
01:42:30,770 --> 01:42:36,150
♪

1425
01:42:36,150 --> 01:42:38,829
♪

1426
01:42:38,829 --> 01:42:42,719
♪

1427
01:42:42,719 --> 01:42:47,719
♪

1428
01:42:47,969 --> 01:42:49,399
♪

1429
01:42:49,399 --> 01:42:54,939
♪

1430
01:42:54,939 --> 01:42:56,899
♪

1431
01:42:56,899 --> 01:43:01,899
♪

1432
01:43:02,149 --> 01:43:05,500
♪

1433
01:43:06,130 --> 01:43:07,048
And I'll always

1434
01:43:07,050 --> 01:43:09,369
♪

1435
01:43:09,369 --> 01:43:14,369
♪

1436
01:43:14,619 --> 01:43:19,619
♪

1437
01:43:19,869 --> 01:43:24,869
♪

1438
01:43:25,119 --> 01:43:30,119
♪

1439
01:43:30,369 --> 01:43:35,369
♪

1440
01:43:35,619 --> 01:43:40,619
♪

1441
01:43:40,869 --> 01:43:45,869
♪

1442
01:43:46,119 --> 01:43:51,119
♪

1443
01:43:51,369 --> 01:43:56,369
♪

1444
01:43:56,619 --> 01:44:01,619
♪

1445
01:44:01,869 --> 01:44:06,869
♪

1446
01:44:07,119 --> 01:44:12,119
♪

1447
01:44:12,369 --> 01:44:17,369
♪

1448
01:44:17,619 --> 01:44:22,619
♪

1449
01:44:22,869 --> 01:44:27,869
♪

1450
01:44:28,119 --> 01:44:33,119
♪

1451
01:44:33,369 --> 01:44:38,369
♪

1452
01:44:38,619 --> 01:44:43,619
♪

1453
01:44:43,869 --> 01:44:48,869
♪

1454
01:44:49,119 --> 01:44:54,119
♪

1455
01:44:54,369 --> 01:44:57,000
♪