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Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins with mum Robyn.

‘It was surreal’: Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins’ search for her birth parents

The Wiggles’ youngest member opens up about her return to her birthplace in Ethiopia for the first time ever last year.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
Children are among the biggest victims in eastern Ukraine. Photos supplied by UNICEF.

Putin’s planes took away Ukrainian children for ‘Russification’: report

Forcible transfer is a crime against humanity under international law, but the Yale report says a Kremlin-led program took at least 314 children.

  • Anthony Deutsch
The author (left) with her sister, Maddie and brother, Mark.

My older brother was a stranger for most of my life. Now he’s a huge part of it

Is it possible to bond with a sibling without a shared past? It turns out it is.

  • Genevieve Quigley
Eileen Mansfield in her eighties with (from left) the author’s sister, Madeleine Carlyle, the author, Rose Carlyle, and her brother, David Carlyle, circa 1993.

At 13, Eileen was abandoned by her mother, but she would go on to beat the odds

My grandmother was sent away by the woman who should have protected her, but it didn’t stop her creating a life filled with love.

  • Rose Carlyle

In Ashlee’s childhood of drug deals and violence, Grandma’s home was a safe haven

Marita fought her addict daughter for years for custody of her granddaughter, Ashlee.

  • Melissa Fyfe
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Death threats, stalking, dead flowers: My foster siblings’ parents must be in town

Religious zealots, kidnapping, jail and a Hollywood ex … how the love of salt-of-the-earth parents turned a crazy upbringing into something special.

  • Lech Blaine
Lily Arthur, now 74, has spent decades fighting for justice. When she was pregnant at 16, “my arrest had been unlawful, my detainment illegal, and the forced removal of my child a crime”.

‘I’m angry’: Lily was 17 when her baby was taken. Now, she’s asking the UN to help

Lily Arthur was one of the young, vulnerable women coerced into giving up their babies for adoption mid-last century. Now, she’s taking her fight for justice to Geneva.

  • Megan Norris

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The children’s advocate has called for an immediate end for children and young people housed in hotels.

Housing young offenders in motels and caravan parks needs to end, advocates say

A final report on children in care suggests bail accommodation for underage offenders could help bring an end to children being housed in hotels and motel

  • Amber Schultz

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