When genealogist Peter Capomolla Moore was in his late 50s, he decided to do a DNA test to find out more about his family.

It would be the start of a life-changing journey that revealed Peter was adopted - and that his birth mother had been forced to give him up.

Thirteen years after then-prime minister Julia Gillard's national apology for forced adoptions, Peter and others like him are still fighting for recognition.

• Guest: Peter Capomolla  Moore, President of Adoptee Rights Australia