As support grows for a forced adoption inquiry in WA, there's hope for positive change nationwide

Danae, pictured as a baby, says the impact of learning she was adopted was like being swallowed by a hole in the ground.   (Supplied)

If survivors of forced adoption fighting for a parliamentary inquiry in Western Australia get their way, they believe it will be partly thanks to an Albany woman's traumatic story.

Danae only found out last year, at the age of 50, that she was adopted when, she said, a relative dropped the bombshell by text.