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Latecomers: The Fairbridge Society in South Australia

This article addresses the Fairbridge Society’s activities in South Australia, centred on the children’s home ‘Drapers Hall’ (1962–81) and Fairbridge’s family migration program. By redressing its omission from literature about child migration, the management of Drapers’ Hall and the experiences of its residents are compared and contrasted with other Fairbridge sites and South Australian child migration schemes for the first time. The author argues that the Society’s South Australian operations diverged from, and improved upon, those interstate. This article has been peer-reviewed.