Freddy Butterworth, now 33, came to Queensland with his adoptive parents Fergus and Helen after they fought an eight-year battle against the state’s adoption laws. At that time, children over the age ...

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The man whose heartwarming story brought change to Queensland’s adoption laws took a chance decades later to find his birth mother. Freddy Butterworth, now 33, came to Queensland with his adoptive ...