David Hill
Jacqueline Kent reviews 'Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice' by David Hill
Jacqueline Kent
Sunday, 24 April 2022
In 1959, David Hill, aged twelve, left England and sailed on the Strathaird to Australia with two of his three brothers. Like thousands of children before them the Hill boys were bound for a Fairbridge farm school. Like thousands of children before them, they had come from a poor background, with a struggling single mother who believed that Fairbridge would give her boys a better education and greater opportunities in life than she possibly could.
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Published in
May 2022, no. 442