Somebody’s Daughter

On our final episode of the season, we resume our conversation with Queensland adoptee Michael Costello, whose quest to unravel the truth behind his horrific childhood has left him with more questions than answers. We hear how after reuniting with his mum, they embarked on a fight to turn back the clock, overcoming a mountain of red tape in order to be legally recognised as mother and son again. --- 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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected] 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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected] 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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected] 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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected] 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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected] 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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected]   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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected]   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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 [email protected] Email Megan [email protected]   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: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Somebody’s Daughter – Someone Else’s ChildThis 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 the brave individuals leading the crusade for justice and truth.Join us, and help give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of parents and adoptees whose lives were shattered by the illegal adoption practices of the past.The brand new season. Somebody’s Daughter. Season 2.Begins April 28, everywhere you get your podcasts. #truecrime #stolengeneration #podcast #crimepodcast #somebodysdaughterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. --- The Somebody's Daughter Podcast: Season 1 Hosted by Megan Norris and Moyra Major Supported by Origins Australia Mobile Podcast Recording and Digital Content Production: Ben Wood at Wood Work Digital Studio Enquiries: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.