Episode 7: Michael Costello. Part 1.

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 it was like to feel a mother’s love, Michael was transferred to a children’s home and it would be another year before he was placed with a foster family who later went on to adopt him. Amazingly, though other youngsters in the family’s care were subsequently removed by the authorities, Michael remained behind, trapped in a nightmare beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. --- 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: Michael Costello 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 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 marry and raise their love-child together, living the dream on Sydney’s northern beaches. Sadly, those dreams came crashing down when eighteen-year-old Mary’s strict Catholic father found out about the baby. In a fit of rage, he banishing Cameron from Mary’s life and she spent her entire pregnancy locked in her bedroom where she was told that unless she gave her baby up for adoption, the family would turn their backs on her. --- 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: Cameron Horn 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 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.