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A Stolen Gen 2: Babies for the Deserving
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A Stolen Gen 4: Pru Goward’s Broken Promises
A Stolen Gen 5: Profits in the Care Industry and Grateful adoptees
A Stolen Gen 6: Creating legal orphans
A Stolen Gen 7: Preservation Not Removal
A Stolen Gen 8: Adopters Don’t Want Contact
Apology Alliance Australia Response to Kevin Rudd
Barbara Maison: WA Mother fighting for justice
Dr Daryl Higgins: Past Adoption Practices: Implications for current interventions
Mothers of Illegal Adoption – Support & Truthtelling
PM Julia Gillard receiving gift of Releasing the Past from Dr. Christine Cole (Editor)
Australian Human Rights Commission Letter
Parallels between Past Forced and Intercountry Adoption
The Broken Bond: Stolen Babies Stolen Motherhood Viewed Through a Trauma Perspective
The Killing Season
National Principles of Adoption
National Principles of Adoption: My response and criticism of Hague Con
“Jan Kashin’s Adoption Activist Story and Art 2022”
A bit about me: Dr. Christine A. Cole
A Stolen Gen 9: The Cruel Myth of ‘orphan saving’
A Stolen 10: Kinship Care
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A bit about me: Dr. Christine A. Cole
A Stolen Generation in the making 1
A Stolen Gen 2: Babies for the Deserving
A Stolen Gen 3: Pro Adoption Campaign
A Stolen Gen 4: Pru Goward’s Broken Promises
A Stolen Gen 5: Profits in the Care Industry and Grateful adoptees
A Stolen Gen 6: Creating legal orphans
A Stolen Gen 7: Preservation Not Removal
A Stolen Gen 8: Adopters Don’t Want Contact
Apology Alliance Australia Response to Kevin Rudd
Barbara Maison: WA Mother fighting for justice
Dr Daryl Higgins: Past Adoption Practices: Implications for current interventions
Mothers of Illegal Adoption – Support & Truthtelling
PM Julia Gillard receiving gift of Releasing the Past from Dr. Christine Cole (Editor)
Australian Human Rights Commission Letter
Parallels between Past Forced and Intercountry Adoption
The Broken Bond: Stolen Babies Stolen Motherhood Viewed Through a Trauma Perspective
The Killing Season
National Principles of Adoption
National Principles of Adoption: My response and criticism of Hague Con
“Jan Kashin’s Adoption Activist Story and Art 2022”
A Stolen 10: Kinship Care
A Stolen Gen 9: The Cruel Myth of ‘orphan saving’
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Launch of Forced Adoption book and campaign for justice Pt, 1
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Launch of Forced Adoption book and campaign for justice Pt, 3
Love Child 2GB Interview – Dr Christine A. Cole
Mother to Birthmother p 515: How My Identity was Altered
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Murdoch Press Hypocrisy
Original Apology Alliance Site
Past Adoption Practices and Implications for Current Interventions
Please sign on-line PETITION (below): Recognition of Forced Adoption Practices
Please sign petition to commemorate NSW Forced Adoption Apology
Releasing the Past – order: Aust. (02) 9504 6788
Releasing the Past: Mothers' Stories of their Stolen Babies
Stolen at Birth: The Painful Legacy of Australia's Forced Adoption Policy
UK Forced Adoption Website
UN asks Australian Government to explain violation of single parents' rights
Vatican Pedophile Ring and Baby Trafficking Network
Why adoption should always be viewed through a lens of trauma
MEMORIALS
Empty Arms Broken Lives: Unveiling of the WA Memorial statues
Mothers' & Adoptees' Media Campaigns for Justice
Barbara Maison: WA Mother, Activist, Author and Apology Alliance Founding Member
Forced adoption 'carves a wound so deep it is primal'
Forced adoption pain even more raw for Victorian mother 60 years on
Forced adoption: 'To this day, the hole still remains'
Is an apology enough for forced adoptees?
Mothers share their personal experiences with forced adoption
Mothers' Agony
Mothers' and Adoptees Campaign for Justice in WA
My Heart Lives in the Soil where I Lost My Mother, Jennifer McRae
My Heart Lives….: Before I was Born: Original Pastel by Jennifer McRae
Push for WA inquiry into forced adoptions to address 'dehumanising' toll on survivors
Queensland AG supports forced adoption law review
Victoria to offer redress for mothers whose babies were taken under forced adoption
National Archives Forced Adoption History Project
Adoptees empowered by release of Mothers' Book
ALAS: the first apology
Alliance keeps the pressure up to gain WA apology
Alliance members lobby for mother rep to be put on Intercountry Adoption Advisory Panel
Apology Alliance Initiating email Feb 2008
Apology Alliance: Member group ARMS SA fights for mother to be put on Intercountry Adoption Advisory Panel
Apology Alliance: Ongoing support of single mothers
Apology Alliance: Working together to bring national attention to the ALAS apology
Australian Journal of Adoption Sue Macdonald The Importance of the WA Apology
Australian Journal of Adoption The Importance of the WA Apology Barb Maison
Branching Out Barb Maison – Brief history of the Alliance achievements
Brief History of the Apology Alliance Australia and some of its achievements
Campaign against Celebrating Adoption Week April 2008
Celebrate name and date change
Collaboration amongst Alliance
Commonwealth's Contribution to State based Forced Adoption law and policy
Corruption in international adoption website
Declaration of Profound Loss
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Dr. Christine Cole's presentation NSW Parliament House
Educating the politicians
Empty Arms Broken Lives: Unveiling of the WA Memorial statues
Executive Summary of Human Rights Abuses perpetrated by Federal and State entities to obtain babies for adoption
Federal Attorney General response to Alliance members campaign
Fighting child trafficking
Finally our first State apology
Intercountry Adoptee Network joins Alliance campaign to get mother Rep on Advisory Panel
Intercountry adoptees fight pro adoption Furness led campaign
Intercountry Adoption advisory panel
Intercountry corruption
Kerri Saints Presentation NSW Parliament House
Letter from AGs: Response to email re pollys support of Furness celebrate adoption campaign
Letter sent to AGs Oct 2008
Letter sent to all pollys around Australia highlighting the corruption in historic and intercountry adoption
Letter to PM Rudd
Letter to PM Rudd October 2008 calling for a National Senate Inquiry
Letters sent to all state and federal AGs as well as pollys across Australia
More mothers join the Alliance
Mother's Day Poetry – fighting against pro adoption anti-bio family campaign
Original email -beginning of Alliance
Overview of Apology Alliance role in gaining state and federal apologies and Senate Inquiry
Parallels between international and domestic adoptions
Prime Minister Julia Gillard with Bella, my granddaughter & the Federal Apology Draft Working Group
Releasing the Past: Mother's Stories of their Stolen Babies: An adoptee is empowered by the truth
Request for mother rep for Intercountry Adoption Panel circulated via Alliance
Request for mother rep goes around Alliance members Australia
Samples of mothers' emails
Stolen Babies – Broken Hearts: Forced Adoption in Australia Vol I
Stolen Babies – Broken Hearts: Forced Adoption in Australia Vol II
Stolen Babies Broken Hearts: History of Australian Forced Adoption
Sue Macdonald's interview is a game changer in WA
The Broken Bond
The Thin Edge of the Wedge
The White Stolen Generation and its meaning for women's citizenship in Australia
WA Memorial Unveiling 21/3/2019
"It touched my heart"
Dr Christine Cole shedding some tears
Lynne Devine and Dr. Christine Cole
Meeting with the WA Mothers
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