Media Releases
DIS-Integrated Identity, Birth Certificates & Adoption
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...
Call to remove the Statute of Limitations on Adoption Crimes
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...
INVISIBILITY OF ADOPTED ADULTS IN THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE VICTORIAN FORCED ADOPTIONS INQUIRY
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...
VICTORIAN INQUIRY – MANY RECOMMENDATIONS LONG OVERDUE – MORE NEEDED FOR ADOPTEES
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...
Integrated Birth Certificates – A Slap in the Face for many Adoptees?
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...
National Peak Adoptee Organisation calls for an inquiry into adoption – not the promotion of adoption from care.
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
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)
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...