Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday apologized to thousands of British child migrants who were transported to the country over centuries. Acknowledging the pain of children shipped to Australia as migrants, Rudd apologized for their physical suffering, emotional starvation and the cold absence of love and tenderness during their forced care.<br/>According to reports, Hundreds of people, many of them Forgotten Australians, had gathered in Parliament's Great Hall in Canberra to hear both the Prime Minister and opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull extending the apology.<br/>The "Forgotten Australians" included the half a million children raised in institutions, orphanages and foster care homes through the last century and also about 7,000 child migrants. Many suffered ill-treatment and abuse.<br/><br/>