Today in the Tasmanian Parliament, the Premier Lara Giddings delivered a formal apology to people affected by past forced adoption policies in Tasmania. Liberal leader Will Hodgman and Nick McKim of the Greens also apologised, in front of an audience of 100 people at Parliament House.
Tasmania is the fourth state to apologise (after WA, SA and NSW), after the Senate …
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has confirmed a formal apology – like those issued to the indigenous Stolen Generations and former child migrants known as the Forgotten Australians – will be made to Australians who suffered the trauma of forced adoptions.
Read The Age article on forced adoption apology
Last week’s news was dominated by the leadership ballot in Canberra on Monday 27 February. But it was also a week that saw the release of three reports by federal and state governments that are very relevant to the Find & Connect web resource.
On Tuesday 28 February, the Victorian Minister for Community Services the Hon. Mary Wooldridge tabled the report …
On 29 November 2011, the Uniting Church and UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide issued an ‘unreserved apology to mothers who may have been forced to give up their children for adoption and to children who may have been forcibly removed from their mothers’.
The apology was made as part of its submission to the Senate …
