Somebody’s Daughter
Episode 7: Michael Costello. Part 1.
When Michael Costello made his debut at the Women’s Hospital in Brisbane in August 1970 he was immediately separated from his teenage mother before she could even hold him and spent the next three months in the hospital nursery crying and alone in his crib. A sickly infant who had never known what…
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Episode 6: Cameron Horn.
The heady romance that blossomed between Cameron Horn and his high school sweetheart, Mary was a real-life Romeo and Juliet love story with an equally tragic ending. When the 20-year-old university student discovered the love of his life was expecting his baby, the lovebirds agreed they would marr…
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Episode 5: Wendy Pankhurst.
Between 1949 and 1990 more than 150,000 babies were systematically stolen from young vulnerable mothers in hospitals and maternity homes around Australia under the Government’s historic forced adoption policies. In 1969, seventeen-year-old Wendy Pankhurst’s beautiful newborn baby was one of them. …
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Episode 4: Colleen Barnard.
In this episode we welcome adoptee, Colleen Barnard who was born in the same Magdalene Home in Brisbane where last week’s guest, Lily Arthur, was incarcerated for the crime of being pregnant and unwed. Colleen describes her adoption journey as a Magdalene baby, the challenges of finding her own id…
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Episode 3: Lily Arthur.
In this episode we welcome back Lily Arthur, CEO of Origins Australia, long term political activist and best-selling author whose book, Prisoner of the State, gives a voice to 150,000 Australian unmarried mothers whose babies were systematically stolen from them under the Commonwealth Government’s …
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Episode 2: Moses Farrow. Part 2.
On this episode we continue our conversation with Moses Farrow, the adopted son of US actress Mia Farrow and Director Woody Allen, as he exposes the truth behind the multi-billion dollar adoption industry - a euphemism for a criminal global child supply market in which babies are commodities to be …
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Episode 1: Moses Farrow. Part 1.
In 1980, two-year-old Moses Farrow was among the 200,000 babies and children taken from South Korean orphanages and children’s homes and sent overseas - sold to new families who promised to give them the sort of lives they could never have in their own country. Moses, who had been born with Cerebr…
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Somebody’s Daughter: Someone Else’s Child. The brand new season, begins April 28.
Somebody’s Daughter – Someone Else’s Child This season, the fight for justice is far from over. We hear more heartbreaking stories from the survivors of forced adoption, about loss, lies and cover ups. We go global, speaking with some of thebrave individuals leading the crusade for justice and t…
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Episode 7: Hon Justice Mushin
In the final episode of the season, Megan and Moyra are joined by the Honorable Naheem Mushin, former Family Court Justice of 21 years, who was appointed by the Attorney General to head the committee investigating the practice of forced adoption and the claims being made by so many women, children …
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Episode 6: Rosalie Wilson
Rosalie Wilson shares her own unique experience, firstly living in a home where her mother adopted other children. She recalls how her mother had given birth to two girls (herself & her sister), but instead wanted boys - so she simply decided to adopt one she liked from the public hospital in Melbo…
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