A Brandywell woman who was sent to Australia as a child says she waited more than fifty years to hear an apology to the "forgotten Australians" given by the country's Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd made what he called a "national apology" for the hardship and institutionalised abuse, suffered by thousands of disadvantaged children who were sent there from Britain and Ireland on a promise of a new life. Victims of the Child Migrants programme - many of them in tears - gathered at Parliament House in Canberra to hear the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, make a statement.

Among those listening to Kevin Rudd's apology was Peggy Gibson, who spoke to Paul McFadden on the Morning Programme. She was born at Quarry Street in Derry's Brandywell in the 30s. Her mother died young and Peggy and her brother were put into care. He was sent to Termonbacca and she was sent to Nazareth House. She arrived in Freemantle in Western Australia in late 1947.

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