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 incredibly difficult to connect the lines of her family history.

Sophia shares her subsequent experience with adoptive parents, and how the sequence of events has affected her relationship with her own child.

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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1

Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major

Supported by Origins Australia

Audio Production & Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

Megan &amp; 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 incredibly difficult to connect the lines of her family history.
Sophia shares her subsequent experience with adoptive parents, and how the sequence of events has affected her relationship with her own child.
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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1
Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major
Supported by Origins Australia
Audio Production &amp; Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

150,000 stolen babies - The truth behind the crimes Australia tried to hide

150,000 stolen babies - The truth behind the crimes Australia tried to hide

Somebody’s Daughter

Episode 5: Sophia Fletcher

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 and extended families.

He travelled the country multiple times over 2 years to hear submissions in person, and to then write the apology that was ultimately delivered by the then prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013.

He does not hold back revealing his findings and expressing his criticism of a dark chapter in Australian history.

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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1

Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major

Supported by Origins Australia

Audio Production & Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

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 and extended families.
He travelled the country multiple times over 2 years to hear submissions in person, and to then write the apology that was ultimately delivered by the then prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013.
He does not hold back revealing his findings and expressing his criticism of a dark chapter in Australian history.
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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1
Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major
Supported by Origins Australia
Audio Production &amp; Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

Episode 7: Hon Justice Mushin

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 Melbourne.

Rosalie then goes on to describe the twist of fate that led to her being forced to adopt out her own child as an unwed, teenage mother.

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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1

Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major

Supported by Origins Australia

Audio Production & Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

Rosalie Wilson shares her own unique experience, firstly&nbsp;living in a home where her mother adopted other children. She recalls how her&nbsp;mother had given birth to two girls (herself &amp; her sister), but instead wanted boys - so she simply decided to adopt one she liked from the public hospital in Melbourne.
Rosalie then goes on to describe the twist of fate that led to her being&nbsp;forced to adopt out her own child as an unwed, teenage mother.
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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1
Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major
Supported by Origins Australia
Audio Production &amp; Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

Episode 6: Rosalie Wilson

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 partner, and shamed by both families, Dianne was sent to live with strangers in another town where she found herself at the mercy of a system which sanctioned the theft of more than 150,000 newborn babies – all callously and systematically taken from young, vulnerable unmarried mothers under the Government’s forced adoption practices of the era.

Today, Dianne revisits that dark chapter in her life and tells us about the anguish of losing her much-wanted baby daughter and the lifelong destruction their forced separation caused to her.

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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1

Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major

Supported by Origins Australia

Audio Production & Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

In 1969, Queensland teenager Dianne Wells was in love and dreaming of a happy new life with her first boyfriend where she&rsquo;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 partner, and shamed by both families, Dianne was sent to live with strangers in another town where she found herself at the mercy of a system which sanctioned the theft of more than 150,000 newborn babies &ndash; all callously and systematically taken from young, vulnerable unmarried mothers under the Government&rsquo;s forced adoption practices of the era.
Today, Dianne revisits that dark chapter in her life and tells us about the anguish of losing her much-wanted baby daughter and the lifelong destruction their forced separation caused to her.
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The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1
Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major
Supported by Origins Australia
Audio Production &amp; Sound Design by Wood Work Digital Studio

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