“I miss Dad every single day”
During a televised search hoping to uncover a family secret, Liz Ellis came away with an even greater appreciation for the man who had lovingly raised her.
The year was 1982 and Liz Ellis, her younger sister, Kath, and their parents, Margaret and Ralph, were taking to the road. Jammed into a caravan, the family would explore Australia for a year, the girls doing school remotely in order to have the adventure of a lifetime while learning more about our wide, brown land. For Ralph, who worked in a timber factory, it had meant years of working overtime, weekends and taking a second job. But he knew the struggle would be worth the reward.
“Dad worked really hard to give us the opportunities that he could,” Liz, 49, recalls. “He was committed to helping us have
