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The unwed mother who drowned her baby in the Yarra

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After she was abandoned while pregnant by the father of her baby, Maggie Heffernan did the unthinkable. But the murder ignited a wave of public sympathy and sparked moral outrage. Margaret Anderson, director of the Old Treasury Building, joins the show to tell the story.

Learn more at https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/maggie-heffernan/

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