AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AAP
A TEAM from a Northern Ireland inquiry into institutional child sex abuse is heading to Australia to talk to 57 people who were sent here under controversial UK child migration policies in the 1950s.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry is holding its third public hearing in Belfast on Wednesday.
The inquiry’s chairman, Sir Anthony Hart, will announce the mid-September departure date for the Australian visit.
In all the inquiry has received formal applications to present evidence from 355 individuals, including 57 from Australia.
“It is for this reason that it has decided to send a team to Australia to meet the large number of applicants there,” a spokesman for the inquiry said in a statement.
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