Aaron Falle was five when he landed in Australia from New Zealand. He was in his 40s when the federal government sent him back – away from his daughter, his son’s grave and the country he grew up in.
His mother had taken him with her when she moved across the ditch to marry an Australian man, who went on to adopt Falle. Citizenship papers should have arrived along with the adoption certificates, Falle says, but he never checked.
