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Episode 8: May 16th 2023 Mata Reports Te Kākano - Closed Adoption

14:00 pm on 16 May 2023

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60-year-old closed adoptee Jenny Small is looking for her whakapapa. But the search to find her whānau is complex. It involves one of New Zealand’s most notorious psychiatric institutions and a 68-year-old law that cut thousands of Māori off from their identity. We’d like to advise listeners that this report contains traumatic accounts of minors kept in mental health facilities.

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