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Liz Gwynn

Ten years on from Tasmania apologising for forced adoptions, many victims are still reeling

Christine Burke vividly remembers the day she arrived at the Elim Maternity Hospital, run by the Salvation Army, as an unmarried pregnant 17-year-old. 

The Hobart grandmother was given no choice but to sign over her daughter for adoption in 1968, despite being in a loving relationship with the child's father whom she married years later. 

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