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- Adoptee Rights Australia
- Adoptee Rights Australia (Facebook)
- Adoption Jigsaw (includes links to state and UK government sites)
- Association of Relinquishing Mothers (ARMS) (Victoria)
- Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders : Records about adoption and fostering institutions
- Forced Adoptions History Project (National Archives of Australia)
- Origins Australia
- Origins Tasmania
- VANISH
Links
2026
- Mothers, lawyer raise concerns about Tasmanian government’s handling of forced adoption redress scheme, ABC- News, January 7, 2026
2025
- Forced adoption redress scheme to offer compensation for impacted Tasmanians, ABC News October 23, 2025
2021
- Contentious bill over child adoptions passes in Queensland Parliament despite concerns,ABC, News, March 23, 2021
2020
- Adoption, Abuse & Exclusion from the Royal Commission, Intercountry Adoptee Voices, June 13, 2020
- The Legacy and Impacts of Abuse in Adoption., Intercountry Adoptee Voices June 17, 2020
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Despite being adopted at birth by Australian citizens abroad Stephanie is out of visa options to live with her family, 9News, June 24, 2020
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𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺𝘀 by Peter Capomolla Moore, ARA Facebook,.October 31, 2020
- Deborra-Lee Furness recalls adoption struggle after IVF, Sydney Daily Telegraph, November 8, 2020
- NSW Integrated Birth Certificates to allow children to include both birth and adoptive parents, ABC News, November 21, 2020
2019
- There has been a deliberate effort to keep adoptees quiet. Identity. February 25, 2019
- Last wish: Give me back my true identity, says adopted man, Sydney Morning Herald, March 31, 2019
- Proposal for two birth certificates could help adoptees maintain a connection to their past, Brisbane Times, April 22, 2019
- Notorious Australian cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne dies at 97, Stuff, June 15, 2019
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Adoptees from overseas to lose Government support for finding biological families, ABC News, June 18, 2018
- Adoption law should be reformed to give children legal connections to both of their families – here’s why. The Conversation, November 27, 2019
- Simple adoption: survivors must be heard in this debate, The Australian, December 7, 2019
- What it’s like to be a child impacted during the forced adoption era, ABC, December 9. 2019
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- Australian adoption rates drop to mirror evolving views on parenthood, Starts at 60, December 17, 2019
- 2018
- Adoptees from overseas to lose Government support for finding biological families, ABC News, June 18, 2018
- Reunited after forced adoption, Judy now spends Christmas with both her mums, ABC News, December 12, 2018
2017
- Legacy of Australia’s Forced Adoption Policy. Vice, January 31, 2017
- My forced adoption, and why I thought it was okay, Sydney Daily Herald, March 13, 2017
2016
- Tibute paid to forced adoptees with memorial unveiled at Torrens River, The Advertiser, July 14, 2016
- ‘Unintended consequence’: how Australia stripped an Australian of citizenship, Sidney Morning Herald, July 22, 2016
2015
- Adult adoptees question Tony Abbott’s promise to fast-track adoptions from overseas, ABC News, June 4, 2015
- Celebrities sugar-coat reality of foreign adoption, adult adoptees say,SBS News, July 28, 2015
2014
- Are we now shifting responsibility for adopted children offshore? The Conversation, July 3, 2014
- Australia puts children at risk by ‘freeing up’ the adoption market, The Conversation, September 7, 2014
2013
- Gillard delivers apology to victims of forced adoption, ABC News, March 21, 2013
2011
- Australia’s Roman Catholic Church apologizes for forced adoptions. Telegraph, July 25, 2011
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