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With a New Year, although it’s fast becoming a not so new year, our Newsletter is making some changes. We are now incorporating information, links, advertisements and articles from artists, related groups of adoption, including adoption, with of course all our regular WP Production and event news and information. The March deadline for the Newsletter is Sunday 28th February 2016 If you fall under any of these categories, please feel free to contact me if
Editor, Thomas Graham, Australian Journal of Adoption Senator’s Seselja and Lindgren have come out in support of AdoptChange; letters seeking support for family preservation have also been sent to other Senators. Author Thomas Graham, Editor of Australian Journal of Adoption, recently penned his concerns to the above Senators. I urge all concerned to do the same. Read his letter here: Dear Senator Gallagher During your time as Chief Minister of the ACT you will recall
Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier? Patricia Fronek, Griffith University Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be declared International Missing Children’s Day. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find your child – even if took six months, a year, or two. But how would you feel if your child was permanently
The National Archives of Australia contacted me earlier this year with the prospect of some very exciting news: “Following the national apology by former prime minister Julia Gillard on 21 March 2013, the National Archives has established a project team to deliver a website, exhibition and education program that meets the objectives of: increasing awareness and understanding of experiences of individuals affected by forced adoption practices; and identifying and sharing experiences of forced adoption.” I