Dr Penny Mackieson can’t remember a time she didn’t know she was adopted. Growing up in a very small rural community in East Gippsland, she admits it would’ve been hard to keep people from asking questions about her and her adopted brother’s emergence. “People would have noticed these two babies arriving,” she tells WHO.
But despite her adopted mum being very interested in family genealogy – an interest she seems to have passed on to her social worker and author daughter – it wasn’t until her twenties that Penny decided to look into her biological family history. “I was always
