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

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...

Adult adoptees silenced in Parliamentary Adoption Inquiry

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...

Media Release: Launching Adoptee Rights Australia Inc. (ARA)

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...
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