In this Sydney Morning Herald article from 2010, Elizabeth Knight talks about a conversation she had with “billionaire media mogul” Kerry Stokes.

According to Knight, Stokes didn’t know whether his unmarried mother gave him up for adoption or whether “the church was responsible”.

Stokes goes on to tell Knight about his adoptive parents who were sometimes too poor to buy food.

He left school & home at 14. When he went back a year later, “his adoptive parents had moved on with no forwarding address.” It was a couple of years before he saw them again.

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