Episode 5: Wendy Pankhurst.

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. Distressed and sedated, the grieving teenager was separated from other mothers at the small country hospital in NSW where, heavily sedated, she was pressured into giving her up for adoption. Today, Wendy joins us from her home in country NSW, reflecting on the heartache of the lifelong suffering that continues to dog the lives of thousands of survivors who are victims of a crime Australia tried to hide.  --- LINKS Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram Follow @moyramajor on Instagram Visit Origins Australia originsaustralia.org Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia Email us somebodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com [somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com] Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au [megan@newscoop.com.au] Follow @woodworkpodcasts on Instagram and TikTok CREDITS Hosts: Megan Norris and Moyra Major Guest: Wendy Pankhurst Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: ben@woodworkdigitalstudio.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 identity in a manufactured family and how the search to find her mother took her halfway around the world – only to find that her mum was living in her own backyard in rural Queensland. --- LINKS Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram Follow @moyramajor on Instagram Visit Origins Australia originsaustralia.org Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia Email us somebodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com [somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com] Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au [megan@newscoop.com.au] Follow @woodworkpodcasts on Instagram and TikTok CREDITS Hosts: Megan Norris and Moyra Major Guest: Colleen Barnard Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: ben@woodworkdigitalstudio.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 past forced adoption practices. Today, Lily shines a light on the unlawful use of dangerous psychotropic and carcinogenic drugs on young vulnerable unmarried mothers -many of them only girls - and the long term impact these drugs have had on the lives of the survivors who were overdosed on them, without their knowledge or consent. She tells us why she is has taken her fight for justice to the Commission for Human Rights, as a mass violation of the fundamental human rights of an entire generation of mothers and children in what is now recognised as an intergenerational crime. --- LINKS Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram Follow @moyramajor on Instagram Visit Origins Australia originsaustralia.org Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia Email us somebodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com [somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com] Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au [megan@newscoop.com.au]   Follow @woodworkpodcasts on Instagram and TikTok CREDITS Hosts: Megan Norris and Moyra Major Guest: Lily Arthur Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: ben@woodworkdigitalstudio.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 sold, trafficked and abused in one of the biggest human rights crimes of our generation. At a time when Origins’ CEO Lily Arthur is demanding justice for 150,000 Australian mothers whose babies were cruelly stolen from them under past forced adoption practices, Moses speaks exclusively to Moyra and Megan about his advocacy work for the traumatised survivors of adoption and explains why this intergenerational crime should be outlawed world-wide. --- LINKS Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram Follow @moyramajor on Instagram Follow @mosesafarrow on Instagram Visit Origins Australia originsaustralia.org Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia Email us somebodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com [somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com] Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au [megan@newscoop.com.au]   Follow @woodworkpodcasts on Instagram and TikTok CREDITS Hosts: Megan Norris and Moyra Major Guest: Moses Farrow Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: ben@woodworkdigitalstudio.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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 Cerebral Palsy, was flown to the United States where he was welcomed into the large, blended family of Hollywood royalty, Mia Farrow, who had three older children from her previous marriage to world renowned composer Andre Previn, and a mum to three other adopted children. Tragically, while the new addition to her family made headlines everywhere, behind the closed doors of the US actress’s luxury New York apartment, little Moses’s life was far from the Hollywood fairytale portrayed in the media. Today, Moses – now a family therapist specialising in children suffering from adoption trauma – tells Moyra and Megan about the anguish of growing up in a highly dysfunctional abusive family to expose the truth behind a  $236 billion industry in which children are no more than disposable commodities in a global child trafficking industry which needs to be recognised for what it is - one of the biggest human rights crimes of our generation. --- LINKS Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram Follow @moyramajor on Instagram Visit Origins Australia originsaustralia.org Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia Email us somebodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com [somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com] Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au [megan@newscoop.com.au]   Follow @woodworkpodcasts on Instagram and TikTok CREDITS Hosts: Megan Norris and Moyra Major Guest: Moses Farrow Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: ben@woodworkdigitalstudio.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.