Secrets We Keep by LiSTNR

03.06.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 7 - Honey badger

Joey travels to Melbourne to try and meet a living mole suspect to finally get some answers. If you have any feedback or information about this story you can email [email protected] or you could send Joey a letter GPO Box 22,...

02.28.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 6 - The suspects

A KGB defector directs Joey towards a former British politician. Joey investigates and finds the names of four potential moles who operated inside ASIO during the Cold War. He begins searching for the four suspects. If you have any feedback or...

02.21.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 5 - Looking for moles

A rendezvous leads Joey to an apartment where a source tells him that more information about the suspected moles might lie in a top secret government report. When he realises only the Prime Minister’s office can authorise the report to...

02.14.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 4 - Cold War Warriors

Joey meets a man who investigated ASIO in the 1970s, to find out what made the spy agency vulnerable to being infiltrated by the KGB. ASIO was directed to search for traitors, but the internal investigations were inconclusive. If you have...

02.07.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 3 - Welcome to Woomera

Joey drives into the middle of the desert to find out why Australia became a target for the KGB. He learns that Australia was a bigger player in the Cold War than he’d ever imagined, and how the mole could’ve...

01.31.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 2 - Fabric of nightmares

Who were the KGB? What was ASIO up against? To help his mole hunt, a former spy takes Joey inside ASIO during the Cold War. He points Joey to a KGB spy called Gerontiy Lazovik who may have recruited a mole...

01.31.2024

Nest of Traitors - Episode 1 - Operation Liver

Three years ago, journalist Joey Watson learnt about the ultimate spy story. During the Cold War, the Australian spy agency ASIO was infiltrated by the enemy - one of their spies turned and began working for the KGB, the Soviet...

12.18.2023

Introducing Nest of Traitors

Three years ago, journalist Joey Watson was pulled into the ultimate spy mystery. During the Cold War, the Australian spy agency ASIO was infiltrated by a Soviet mole. For decades the mole's identity was buried and the damage they caused...

12.18.2023

The next Australian secret

Amelia Oberhardt introduces Season 2 of Secrets We Keep - Nest of Traitors. Hosted by Joey Watson, the season investigates another big Australian secret. Launching January 23. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10.22.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Your Stories

Closed adoptions have affected many Australian families, and no one experience is the same. In this episode, you'll hear how forced adoptions have affected people from a new perspective - two adoptees, and one father. Lifeline: 13 11 14 Forced Adoption Support Service:...

10.09.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Finding your family

If you or your family have been affected by forced adoption, it can be daunting to start your journey to find information about your history. However support is available, and host Amelia Oberhardt speaks to two post adoption support services about...

10.02.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Repeat or repair

In the final episode of the season, Amelia Oberhardt reflects on what she's learnt in the series, and confronts one last stigma - her mother's alcohol dependency. Support services: National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline: 1800 250 015 Lifeline: 13 11 14 Forced Adoption...

09.25.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - The abortion raid

In researching the series, Amelia Oberhardt heard a shocking story about a Queensland abortion raid that showed another side of how women were treated in Australia’s not too distant past. Amelia finds out more about the options women had when...

09.18.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Coming home

Leonie Pope was taken from her mother as a baby in 1972, after her mother was coerced into signing forms that gave away her rights. Leonie and her siblings were all taken from their family, and are part of the...

09.11.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Ghost Kingdom

We’ve been inundated with responses and questions from you, with your stories from the forced adoption era. Dr Susan Green is a psychologist and adopted person and speaks to Amelia Oberhardt to answer questions about the psychological impacts of forced...

09.04.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Where do I come from?

It’s a decade this year since Julia Gillard’s apology to those affected by forced adoption, but there’s still unfinished business. Now, it’s the adoptees picking up the baton and carrying on the fight for recognition, redress, and justice. Amelia speaks to...

08.28.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - In the child’s best interest

At its peak in the early 1970s, almost 200 babies per week were adopted in Australia. It’s impossible to know how many of these adoptions involved coercion, but we do know that it was a time many believed single women...

08.21.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Moral danger

Young, pregnant, unwed. What happened next is one of the most shameful periods in Australian history. Amelia Oberhardt speaks to two women who experienced a forced adoption – a broad term used to describe the various ways women were coerced...

08.14.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Welcome to Cairns

Amelia Oberhardt flies to Cairns to meet the man in the photo, hoping to finally get the answer to a question that has haunted her for over a decade. Who is the baby in the photo? Knowing what happened to her...

08.07.2023

Shame, Lies & Family - Finding Michael

In the aftermath of seeing the photo at the wake, Amelia Oberhardt is on a search to find the man in the photo. Her pursuit leads her down a rabbit hole, into the world of 1960s and 1970s Australia, and...