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<id>25894</id>
<session>2003-04</session>
<number>558</number>
<title>Molly Kelly, 1917 To 2004</title>
<proposer id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</proposer>
<date>2004-02-04</date>
<text>That this House mourns the death of Australian aboriginal, Molly Kelly, who was one of up to 100,000 aboriginal children forcibly taken from their families between 1910 and 1970, and at age 14, was, along with her sister and cousin, placed in an institution far from home as part of Australia's policy to breed out the 'aboriginal' in youngsters; recalls how Molly walked 1,200 miles along a rabbit-proof fence to escape the institution and return to her mother; and calls upon the Australian Government to say sorry to the very many aboriginals who are recovering from this traumatic policy which went on to inflict an equally traumatic scenario on her daughters, Doris and Annabel, one of whom made a similar journey escaping an institution 10 years later in 1941, and to do everything within its means to ensure the recommendations of the 1997 report 'Bringing them Home' are implemented as a matter of the utmost urgency.</text>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>2004-02-04</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11194">Iris Robinson</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10657">Derek Wyatt</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sittingbourne &amp; Sheppey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10675">Simon Thomas</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ceredigion</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10164">Hilton Dawson</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lancaster &amp; Wyre</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10416">Paul Marsden</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Shrewsbury &amp; Atcham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11095">Rob Marris</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10295">Lindsay Hoyle</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2004-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10169">Andrew Dismore</mp>
		<date>2004-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hendon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>2004-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10521">Bob Russell</mp>
		<date>2004-02-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Colchester</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10304">Brian Iddon</mp>
		<date>2004-02-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolton South East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>2004-02-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2004-02-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10623">Robert Wareing</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, West Derby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10599">Jenny Tonge</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Richmond Park</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10586">David Taylor</mp>
		<date>2004-02-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Leicestershire</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10497">Syd Rapson</mp>
		<date>2004-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10076">Richard Burden</mp>
		<date>2004-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Northfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>2004-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2004-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>2004-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2004-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10378">Chris McCafferty</mp>
		<date>2004-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Calder Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10325">Nigel Jones</mp>
		<date>2004-02-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheltenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2004-03-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11189">Angus Robertson</mp>
		<date>2004-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Moray</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>2004-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>2004-03-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10274">Stephen Hepburn</mp>
		<date>2004-03-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Jarrow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10163">Terry Davis</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
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