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DIS-Integrated Identity, Birth Certificates & Adoption

7 August 2022Media Release

Response to the Guardian article published today 7th August 2022: “My birth* mother was not allowed to name her baby. But the name she gave me in her heart is real”. While it’s both welcome and surprising to see an adopted person speaking about the reality of adoption actually being published in the national media – …

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Call to remove the Statute of Limitations on Adoption Crimes

10 July 2022Media Release

Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc. and their membership support the mothers of this nation in their decades long quest to achieve justice. We are aligned in their rightful request that all state jurisdictions remove the statute of limitations which prevent adopted adults and their mothers from accessing redress and compensatory mechanisms. Numerous Australian state and …

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INVISIBILITY OF ADOPTED ADULTS IN THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE VICTORIAN FORCED ADOPTIONS INQUIRY

11 March 2022Media Release

Adopted People – Invisible Australians. Response by Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc. to the Government Response to the Recommendations of the Inquiry into Historical Forced Adoption in Victoria. We congratulate the mothers who have fought long and hard for recognition of their trauma and the illegal acts to which they were subjected when their babies …

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VICTORIAN INQUIRY – MANY RECOMMENDATIONS LONG OVERDUE – MORE NEEDED FOR ADOPTEES

2 October 2021Media Release

President of Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc., Peter Capomolla Moore, says: “ARA welcomes many of the 56 recommendations of the Victorian Inquiry into responses to historical forced adoption in Victoria and we thank the Committee and Secretariat for the empathetic and inclusive way this Inquiry was conducted.” “We congratulate the mothers who have fought long …

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Integrated Birth Certificates – A Slap in the Face for many Adoptees?

14 September 2020Media Release

National Adoptee Peak Body, Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc has rejected the claim that NSW integrated birth certificate reforms solve the issues around birth certificates for adopted people. President of ARA, Peter Capomolla Moore, says: “The reforms in NSW are a token gesture at most. “Some adoptees see having the adoptive parents on the birth …

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National Peak Adoptee Organisation calls for an inquiry into adoption – not the promotion of adoption from care.

24 June 2020Media Release

National Peak Body for adoptees, Adoptee Rights Australia (ARA) Inc. does not support the current push towards increasing adoptions by some state governments and wealthy, self-interested lobby groups. Instead, ARA Inc. is calling for an inquiry into the controversial practice of adoption itself – its legislation, policy and practices, and its effect on the human …

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