Lynelle’s Writings and Interviews

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Blogs

Blogs 

Productions

ICAV Webinars

ICAV & RM: Educational Videos for Professionals (Nov 2021)

Book: The Colour of Time: A Longitudinal Exploration of the Impact of Intercountry Adoption in Australia (2017)

Contributions to Books

Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and allies (Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Lori Holden 2023)

Somewhere Sisters: A story of Adoption, Identity, and the meaning of Family (Erika Hayasaki 2022)

Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee (Mark Hagland 2021)

The Adoption Coverup in Sri Lanka by Sanne Rossen: English translation provided by Lynelle Long (2019)

The Colour of Time: A Longitudinal Exploration of the Impact of Intercountry Adoption in Australia (2017)

Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be? Voices for and by Adopted Teens (2009)

The Colour of Difference: Journey’s of Transracial Adoption (2001)

Multi Media & Articles

A Million Different Shades (YouTube): Lynelle Long (Nov 2026)

ABC: Shaken by their pasts, inter-country adoptees demand federal government broaden inquiry scope (Mar 2026) and Adoptees want government inquiry into South Korean adoption program expanded (video)

Adoption Uncovered (podcast): Lynelle Long leads adoptees to help each other and educate the rest of us (Dec 2025)

Adoptees On (podcast): 312 Lynelle Long (Nov 2025)

My Inner Knowing (podcast): The Untarnished Truth of Intercountry Adoption (Aug 2025)

The Saturday Paper: The lies that haunt inter-country adoptees (2025) and accompanying podcast featuring journalist Martin McKenzie-Murray

The Verge: American War – Out of the Fog (2025)

Child Identity Protection: Right to Family Relations and access to justice and effective remedies (webinar, 2025) (Lynelle’s speech 14:42 – 28:00mins)

AP: South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations (2025)

InterCountry Adoptee and Family Support Services (ICAFSS) series (2024):
Adoptees as Change Makers
Listening and Learning from Lived Expertise
Intercountry Adoptee Leadership in Australia
Get to know Australia’s Adoptee-led Communities
Small Grants & Bursaries with Lynelle Long

Law Society Journal of NSW: Left in the dark – examining Australian adoptions from South Korea (Oct 2024)

ABC: Calls for Korean adoptions to end amid alleged orphan “trafficking” scandal (Aug 2024)

ABC Background Briefing: The agency accused of paying bribes for babies (podcast, Aug 2024)

ABC: Australia’s South Korean adoption partner falsified adoptee records to bring children to Australia (Aug 2024)

Adoption Unfiltered podcast interview (Jan 2024)

Canadian interview of Lynelle Long by Judith Alexis Craig & Sally Baffour for adoptive community forum (Dec 2023)

The Eftychia Project Greek Adoptee Reunion guest speaker presentation (Oct 2023)

Child Identity Protection (CHIP): short films
Building an identity
How States should help adoptees access their records
How States can restore the adoptee’s identity when there are missing elements
How States should respond to illicit adoptions
How can States preserve an adoptee’s identity
Lifelong impact of an adoption and changing one’s identity
Importance of post adoption support in preserving identity rights
Traumatising impact of an illicit adoption
Why are identity rights important

Nordic Adoption Council (NAC) Conference guest speaker presentation (15 Sept 2023)

Fireside Adoptee Interview 1 and Interview 2 (Sept 2022)

ABC Radio National: God Forbid program (July 2022)
Discovering you are not who you thought you were

Stella: The Story of Our Trauma (May 2022)
Episode 11: Interview with Lynelle Long – Adoption, Isolation & A Community of Support

United Survivors of Suicide Webinar: Adoption and Suicide Prevention – Adult Adoptees Speak (Oct 2021)

Jigsaw QLD Australia’s Adopt Perspective podcast (Aug 2021)

Transforming Children’s Care Webinar #4: Children’s Right to Identity in Alternative Care (Jun 2021) including other guest speakers. (Lynelle speaks at 32:16 to 45mins)

Pulled by the Root: Amplifying Adoption Issues – Lynelle Long podcast (2021)

University of Oregon: CONNECTIONS Adoption Conference, Adoptee Panel including Ming Canaday & Astrid Castro (May 2021)

Finding Humanity podcast Separated: The Ethics of Adoption including myself, David Smolin & Julie Rosicky (2021)

Cancelling an adoption: the case of Netra Sommer (Spanish, English translation 2021)

Immigration Solution Lawyers Webinar Intercountry Adoption including David Smolin & Patricia Fronek (2020)

AdoptiON AIR interview (2020)

#IAMNOTAVIRUS interview (2020)

Guest speaker in a 3-part series on Intercountry Adoption at the The Good Problem Podcast (2020); Lynelle, Laura and Jessica

Guest speaker at Family Preservation 365 (2019)

Co-Plenary Speaker at Society for the History of Children & Youth 2019 Conference (SHCY): Imagined Futures for Adopted Children

Guest speaker at CCI’s Adoptee Only Chat (2018)

Ipsify: In Conversation with Lynelle Long about Living with Adoption (2017)

Australian families still face a long wait for intercountry adoption (2016)

Contribution to Online Panels (2015)

Abbott’s plan to overhaul adoption laws (2015)

Compass: Passport to Parenthood video (2009)

7:30 Report: (2008) (18:57min)

Other People’s Babies – Special Delivery (2007)

SBS Episode 5: Babies Without Borders video and transcript (2006)

Australian Parliament: Standing Committee on Family & Human Services – Inquiry into Children adopted from Overseas (2005)

Nobody Here Like Me (2001)

Fear of a Lost Generation of Adoptees (2001)

Adopting Identities (1999)

World’s Apart (1998)