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Callum Godde and Emily Woods

EXPLAINED: Victoria creates forced adoption redress | Rare Historical Photos

"No payment can take away the pain ... so, so many women have experienced," Daniel Andrews says. (AAP)

Victoria will create Australia's first redress scheme for women who had their babies forcibly adopted, spending $4 million to set up the model.

The state government on Thursday released its response to last year's Parliamentary Inquiry into Historical Forced Adoption, which found almost 40,000 adoptions were arranged in Victoria from 1958 to 1984.

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