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Carissa Smith was adopted from South Korea as a baby and has embarked on a search for her birth parents.

Carissa used to look at the moon and wonder if her mother could see it too - she never found out

Carissa Smith finally made the journey to Seoul last year, seeking answers about who she was. But her hopes were dashed by a woman holding a manila folder, and hiding words with a ruler.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Judith Hancock with grandson Archie.

‘Are my parents really my parents?’ Judith’s search for answers took an unlikely turn

What happens when you’re searching for the truth but those who have the answers have passed? A new documentary takes a radical approach.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Chrissie Tully gave birth to a son 76 years ago who she never met.

Her final wish: A home for the son she never got to hold

As a teenager, Chrissie Tully fell in love and then became pregnant. What happened next followed a grim, tragic script in mid-century Ireland.

  • Ali Watkins
Australian-Korean adoptees have been calling for a national inquiry into what authorities knew about the ethical and legal issues plaguing the Eastern Social Welfare Society, which facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

Did Australia know? South Korean adoptees demand answers over global scandal

Labor has promised, if re-elected, to investigate concerns about the program that facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

  • Lisa Visentin
Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at the Angel Babies’ Home orphanage.

Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

  • Lisa Visentin

Australia is wealthy and complacent – it’s time to talk national service

Readers respond to concerns that Australia is increasingly vulnerable, as well as reports on an adoption scandal and the federal election.

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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
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

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