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There’s a government file about my life. A file of reports. The reports date from 1985 to 2003. That’s 18 years. File 105538.
No, I’m not a terrorist or a spy. From two weeks old, to the day I turned 18, I was a foster child.
I do not own the file about my life. It belongs to the state of Queensland.
But when I turned 18 I wanted answers. I wanted to know what all those social workers, psychologists, doctors, teachers and my foster family had said about me. And I wanted to know more about my birth mother.
And so I applied for copies of my files under the Freedom of Information Act. What I found rocked me to my core.
This is my story.
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