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The Greend leader in the ACT
On 27 October 2010 Ms Meredith Hunter, the Greens Leader in the ACT Legislative Assembly put forward a motion calling for an apology to women affected by forced adoptions. This is her speech:
the Greens Leader in the ACT.pdf “Mr Speaker, there are many parts of our history to be remembered and there are many that can never be forgotten. What I am rising today is a very difficult issue that involves an enormous amount of pain and trauma for many More than mistakes or errors, not just misguided lapses of judgement, what was done to women and babies under these past policies and practices was so fundamentally offensive to common decency and to our inherent rights as human beings that we have a responsibility to understand what happened and to do our best to ease that suffering. What must be made clear is that the most appropriate first step is through a national inquiry, a thorough inquiry into what happened to all those mothers who had their babies taken away without their consent. I understand that the Australian Journal of Adoption Vol 2, No 3, 2010 * To read the complete article, please check out the attached file
thousands of Australians. It is the issue of past forcible removal of babies from their unwed mothers for adoption or to be placed into institutional care.
minister will be moving amendments to recognise some other work that is being done, in particular, research being carried out by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
