Vivienne Timmermans - You Gave Me A Voice
Today's guest is a well known figure in the Queensland adoption community. At age 17, Vivienne Timmermans was an Australian Champion figure skater with big plans for her future. Around the same time, ...
20 Apr 202141min
Heartlines - Susannah McFarlane & Robin Leuba
Jo Sparrow speaks with a mother and an adoptee who wrote a book about their reunion experience. Susannah McFarlane is an adoptee and author, creator and publisher of some of Australia's most successfu...
5 Apr 202154min
Prof Daryl Higgins - AIFS Study into Past Adoption Experiences
Jane speaks to Professor Daryl Higgins about the study titled, "Past Adoption Experiences: National Research Study on the Service Response to Past Adoption Practices" he contributed to and co-authored...
23 Mar 202154min
Discharging an Adoption - Andrea Lynch
In part two of our discussion about discharging an adoption, Jo talks to Jigsaw Qld's Forced Adoption Support Service (FASS)Team Leader, Andrea Lynch more generally about the process and things to con...
9 Mar 202117min
Michael - Discharging an Adoption
Michael Costello was born in Brisbane in 1970, at the height of the closed and forced adoption eras. He was initially placed in an orphanage, and then extended foster care, despite his mother making s...
24 Feb 202145min
Lost & Found - An Original Song About Adoption
In this episode Jane speaks to Cath Mundy and Jay Turner, a singer-song writing duo who worked with Jigsaw Qld and our client and stakeholder groups to write a song to represent the Forced Adoption ex...
9 Feb 202152min
Pam Cordano - 10 Foundations for a Meaningful Life
In the first episode of 2021 we talk to adoptee, Psychotherapist, cancer survivor and author, Pam Cordano about her book, "10 Foundations for a Meaningful Life (No Matter What's Happened)". Most of Pa...
26 Jan 202144min
Never Forget, Never Repeat
As the 8th anniversary of Queensland's historic apology in parliament for past forced adoption policies and practices nears, Jigsaw Qld's Forced Adoption Support Service (FASS) Team Leader, Andrea Lyn...
10 Nov 202023min
