Host Megan Norris and Moyra Major interview Queensland adoptee Michael Costello about his journey to legally reunite with his mother and uncover truths about his past.
8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 7: Michael Costello. Part 1.
Host Megan Norris interviews Michael Costello about his early life experiences of separation and adoption, revealing profound resilience.
1 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 6: Cameron Horn.
Host Megan Norris interviews Cameron Horn about his tragic teenage romance and the devastating consequences of his girlfriend's father's disapproval.
25 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 5: Wendy Pankhurst.
Wendy Pankhurst shares her deeply personal story of forced adoption in Australia, offering a powerful insight into the lasting impact of government policies on survivors.
18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 4: Colleen Barnard.
Adoptee Colleen Barnard shares her profound journey of searching for her birth mother, revealing the emotional complexities of identity and family.
11 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
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.
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LINKS
Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram
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Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram
Follow @moyramajor on Instagram
Visit Origins Australia originsnsw.com
Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia
Email us somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com)
Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au (mailto:megan@newscoop.com.au)
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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
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4 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 2: Moses Farrow. Part 2.
Moses Farrow discusses the global child supply market and advocates for survivors of adoption with hosts Megan Norris and Moyra Major.
27 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
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.
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LINKS
Follow @somebodysdaughter_podcast on Instagram
Follow @somebodysdaughterpodcast on TikTok
Follow @megannorris_author on Instagram
Follow @moyramajor on Instagram
Visit Origins Australia originsnsw.com
Visit Origins Australia facebook.com/groups/originsaustralia
Email us somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:somedbodysdaughterpodcast@gmail.com)
Email Megan megan@newscoop.com.au (mailto: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.
20 Apr 2026
Somebody’s Daughter: Someone Else’s Child. The brand new season, begins April 28.
Host [Host Name] interviews survivors of forced adoption, sharing heartbreaking stories of loss and the global fight for justice.
4 Aug 2025
Episode 7: Hon Justice Mushin
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
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
28 Jul 2025
Episode 6: Rosalie Wilson
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
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
21 Jul 2025
Episode 5: Sophia Fletcher
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
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
14 Jul 2025
Episode 4: Dianne Wells
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
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
7 Jul 2025
Episode 3: Linda Davis
Linda Davis recounts the devastating experience of having her newborn daughter stolen for forced adoption in 1973, detailing the shame, secrecy, and long-term emotional impact in this interview on the Somebody's Daughter podcast.
30 Jun 2025
Episode 2: Lily Arthur
Lily Arthur recounts her experience of having her newborn son unlawfully taken for adoption, detailing her search and subsequent lawsuit against the State of Queensland as Megan Norris and Moyra Major interview her.
23 Jun 2025
Episode 1: Megan & Moyra
Hosts Megan Norris and Moyra Major introduce their true crime podcast, exploring Australia's history of illegal forced adoptions and detailing how they became involved in researching this dark chapter.
15 Jun 2025
Introducing: "Somebody's Daughter"
The podcast "Somebody's Daughter" introduces a forthcoming investigation into the hidden crimes of stolen babies in Australia.
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Episode 8: Michael Costello. Part 2.
Published 15 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] My adoption file is a Pandora's box of problems for the government. Not just the Queensland government, but the federal government as well. Now, the home I was brought up in, because of my efforts, the government is now funder of last resort for that organisation. They were left out of the original proposal when the National Redress Scheme for Child Sexual Abuse, Institutional Child Sexual Abuse was formed. The Queensland government left out that proposal organisation that I was raised in. Why? And now it is part of the funder of Lost Resort. And the fact that they allowed this woman to continue for as long as they did, and as the RTI documents that I obtained in 2023 say, there was ministerial override in my adoption. […]
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