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Shame, Lies & Family - Where do I come from?
Season 1 Episode 6
It’s a decade this year since Julia Gillard’s apology to those affected by forced adoption, but there’s still unfinished business. Now, it’s the adop…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shame, Lies & Family - In the child’s best interest
Season 1 Episode 5
At its peak in the early 1970s, almost 200 babies per week were adopted in Australia. It’s impossible to know how many of these adoptions involved co…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shame, Lies & Family - Moral danger
Season 1 Episode 4
Young, pregnant, unwed. What happened next is one of the most shameful periods in Australian history. Amelia Oberhardt speaks to two women who experi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shame, Lies & Family - Welcome to Cairns
Season 1 Episode 3
Amelia Oberhardt flies to Cairns to meet the man in the photo, hoping to finally get the answer to a question that has haunted her for over a decade.…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shame, Lies & Family - Finding Michael
Season 1 Episode 2
In the aftermath of seeing the photo at the wake, Amelia Oberhardt is on a search to find the man in the photo. Her pursuit leads her down a rabbit h…
2 years, 9 months ago
Shame, Lies & Family - The wake
Season 1 Episode 1
Standing at her mother’s wake, journalist Amelia Oberhardt is confronted with a photo she’s never seen before - her mum Cecelia as a teenager wearing…
2 years, 9 months ago
Introducing Shame, Lies & Family
Season 1
Journalist Amelia Oberhardt thought she knew her mum, until she was confronted by a photo she’d never seen before at her mother’s wake. Seeing this p…
2 years, 10 months ago