Brett Raguse (Forde, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I was successful. So the importance of record keeping and the importance of information is the point I want to make tonight. While there was some opening up of the records, certainly a person in my situation found it very difficult. Prior to the laws being changed in Queensland I found my natural family—through six years of intensive research, a lot of luck along the way and maybe a few underground methods of finding information. But the reality was—

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