by Hana Crisp | Oct 7, 2026 | Personal Stories
Emily McKie, an adoptee, has spent the past year as VANISH’s Operations Coordinator, filling in for Lucy while she’s been on parental leave. For most of her life, Emily didn’t feel like she needed to explore her adoption experience – until everything started to...
by Hana Crisp | Sep 18, 2026 | Personal Stories
50 years later, adoptee Robert Bender reflects on his role with Jigsaw Victoria – the adoptee rights group which operated from 1976 to 1986 and successfully campaigned to open up birth records for adult adoptees. Content warning: Robert’s story contains a description...
by Hana Crisp | Sep 1, 2026 | Personal Stories
Chris found out he was adopted when he was thirteen. It took a health scare almost thirty years later and support from VANISH’s intermediary service before he went looking for answers. Finding out When Chris was thirteen, his parents told him and his younger brother...
by Hana Crisp | Aug 12, 2026 | Personal Stories
Hana from VANISH speaks to Jude Newcombe about her self-published book Did You Find Her? A Mother’s Memoir: an honest, insightful account of relinquishing a daughter for adoption decades ago, the emotional and psychological impacts, and a reunion that still...
by Hana Crisp | Aug 4, 2026 | News
Adoptee Megan Fromholtz travelled all the way from Ballarat to attend our Adoptee Wellbeing Day in Albury-Wodonga. She was so moved by her experience that she wrote about it and shared her reflections with us. As a participant in the VANISH Ballarat peer...
