Timeline of significant Events and Legislation in the History of Child Welfare in Australia
1820s
1860s
1870s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
- World War Two (1939 - 1945)
- Child Endowment Act 1941, Commonwealth of Australia
- Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946, Commonwealth of Australia
- The first post-war child migrants arrive in Australia (1947)
1980s
1990s
- National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1995 - 1997)
- Select Committee into Child Migration, Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia (1996)
- Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants, House of Commons Health Committee, Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997 - 1998)
- Commission of inquiry into abuse of children in Queensland institutions, Queensland (1998 - 1999)
2000s
- Inquiry into Child Migration (2000 - 2001)
- Ombudsman's Review of Abuse while in State Care, Tasmania (2003 - 2006)
- Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care (2003 - 2004)
- Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry, South Australia (2004 - 2008)
- Redress WA, Western Australia (2008 - 2011)
- Inquiry into the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Reports (2008 - 2009)
- Australian Parliament Apology to the Stolen Generations (13 February 2008)
- Australian Parliament Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants (16 November 2009)
2010s
- Redress WA, Western Australia (2008 - 2011)
- Removal of Children from Unmarried Mothers - Apology by the Parliament of Western Australia (2010)
- British government apology to child migrants (24 February 2010)
- Apology by the General of the Salvation Army General Shaw Clifton, to care leavers of Salvation Army homes (7 December 2010)
- Commonwealth Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices (2011 - )
- Special Inquiry into St Andrew's Hostel [Katanning], Western Australia (2011 - 2012)
- Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, Commonwealth Government (2012 - )
- Inquiry into handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, Victoria (2012 - )
Last updated: 27 November 2012
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