Tuesday, 27 November 2012
By Tim Roxburgh and Ellen Leabeater
for 270+ community radio stations
The Queensland Government apologised this afternoon for forced adoptions that occurred from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s.
During this time newborn babies were taken from single mothers through both physical and psychological coercion and adopted out.
The apology follows a Senate inquiry report earlier this year recommending all states, territories and the federal government apologise for forced adoptions. Queensland was the last state to comply.
Kathryn Rendell (policy advisor at the National Council for Single Mothers and Their Children) and Michael Tizard (Benevolent Society Queensland State Manager) attended the delivery of the apology in the parliament.
Hear the report by clicking here.
Our previous coverage: Senate inquiry into forced adoptions found barbaric, horrific abuses