JG - Nick Nugent (Draft 1) 1 - 2-MP3 For Audio Podcasting

Red Wine Stain

In this interview, Mornings Presenter Belinda Sanders talks with Toowoomba Art Councils Jennifer Wright (Summers) about her participation in an ABC Open video workshop at the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba.

Jennifer Wright (Summers) talking to ABC Southern Queensland's Belinda Sanders

ABC Southern Qld Morning's presenter Belinda Sanders interviews ABC Open's Miranda Grant about an upcoming workshop at Toowoomba's Cobb & Co Museum. 

What do you collect? ABC Open on ABC Southern Qld Mornings

Dalby Diaries: Lisa

Dalby Diaries: Kassandra

Dalby Diaries: Lizzy

Dalby Diaries: Jess

Dalby Diaries: Up in flames

Over more than half the 20th century, thousands of Australian women adopted out their babies. We now know that many of these women were forced to do so. Some mothers were subject to enormous pressure to relinquish their babies, but there is also evidence that women were actively coerced, lied to, and in some cases forced to sign their babies away.

In February 2012, a Senate committee released a report into forced adoption, which found incontrovertible evidence that forced adoption was common in Australia.

Angela Barra was adopted as a baby, her mother a victim of these past practices of forced adoption. This radio package is an excerpt from a three-part video, chronicling the impact this fate of birth has had on her life.

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