by | Mar 24, 2021 | News & Media Releases
Reporting on the outcome of the Bill aiming to prioritise adoption over long-term care arrangements and fast-track adoption in Queensland in the ABC article: “Contentious bill over child adoptions passes in Queensland Parliament despite concerns” by...
by | Feb 7, 2021 | News & Media Releases
An excerpt from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) submission to the Inquiry into Responses to Historical Forced Adoptions in Victoria – Reporting date due 21st July 2021: “The AIHW is unable to provide information on how adoptees and...
by | Sep 14, 2020 | News & Media Releases
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...
by | Jun 24, 2020 | News & Media Releases
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...
by | Dec 4, 2018 | News & Media Releases
The Commonwealth government is years behind Europe in adoption research and practices and they are silencing adoptees in Australia who have lived experience of adoption, according to Adoption Rights Australia (ARA). Head of the Parliamentary Committee Inquiry on Local...
by | Oct 29, 2018 | News & Media Releases
ARA aims to fulfil the urgent need in Australia for a national adoptee representative peak body run by, and for, adopted people. To date, other stakeholders’ views have been prioritised and ARA was formed in response to a longstanding need to have our voices heard in...
