Somebody’s Daughter
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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Episode 5: Sophia Fletcher
Megan & Moyra are joined by Sophia Fletcher, who was forcibly adopted during this period. Born in Brisbane in 1962, she was removed from her birth mother - who she has never found despite 40 years of searching. She speculates that her mother may have been an illegitimate child herself, making it i…
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Episode 4: Dianne Wells
In 1969, Queensland teenager Dianne Wells was in love and dreaming of a happy new life with her first boyfriend where she’d have children and a home of her own. Tragically, those dreams came crashing down when the sixteen-year-old discovered she was pregnant out of wedlock. Abandoned by her partn…
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Episode 3: Linda Davis
My newborn daughter was stolen from me – and returned to steal my life. In 1973, new mum Linda Davis, woke from a caesarean to discover that her newborn daughter was missing – one of 150,000 Australian babies stolen from young unmarried mothers under the Government’s illegal forced adoption practi…
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Episode 2: Lily Arthur
Between 1940 and the late 1980’s, 250,000 newborn babies were surrendered for adoption – most of them unlawfully stolen from young unmarried mothers in one of the most shocking mass violations of human rights in contemporary Australian history. One of those babies was Lily Arthur’s eight-day-old s…
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Episode 1: Megan & Moyra
Between 1959 and the late 1980’s more than 250,000 Australian babies were surrendered for adoption – most of them illegally stolen at birth from young, vulnerable unmarried mothers. Now, with a campaign underway to expose the dark truth behind the crimes Australia tried to hide, veteran Gold Coast…
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Introducing: "Somebody's Daughter"
Coming soon: 150,000 stolen babies - The truth behind the crimes Australia tried to hide.
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