Margo’s mother Jean is an alcoholic. Margo and her brother Micko move from rented flat to rented flat, suburb to suburb and school to school. Then one day Jean simply disappears. Left to care for her younger brother, Margo describes their bewildering first night in an orphanage, their long wait for their missing mother and life in an institution during the 50s and 60s. The Federal Government’s Forgotten Australians Report: The Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care provided detailed evidence of the appalling circumstances in which half a million children like Margo and Micko lived. This is their story: Left Unsaid.

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