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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

In an overgrown ‘swamp’ in Rookwood cemetery, Jayne asks: ‘Where are the graves? She’s told: ‘You’re standing on them’

An older woman sits in a chair by a window with her arms folded over her lap
Barbara Davis at her home in Coffs Harbour. Her foster daughter Christine Halpin was buried in an unmarked grave in 1989 without her knowledge. Photograph: David Maurice Smith/Oculi

Jayne Kinsolving remembers wading through knee-high shrubs to find her family’s grave.

The feeling of vines and thorns tearing at her legs. The squelch of her footsteps across water-logged soil.

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