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  • 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 bit about me: Dr. Christine A. Cole
  • A Stolen Gen 9: The Cruel Myth of ‘orphan saving’
  • A Stolen 10: Kinship Care
← Interview with Dr. Geoff Rickarby- exposing the kidnapping and trafficking of Australian unwed mothers’ newborns under the guise of adoption

Interview with Mr Pat Rogan, MP (ret), who spearheaded the campaign along with Dr. Christine Cole and the mothers she represented, many who had worked hard over decades, to gain an Inquiry into Past Practices in Adoption. Mr Rogan referred to this as the Stolen Babies Scandal

Posted on July 8, 2023 by apologyalliance

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    • 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”
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    • 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?
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    • My Heart Lives in the Soil where I Lost My Mother, Jennifer McRae
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    • 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
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    • Apology Alliance: Working together to bring national attention to the ALAS apology
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    • Branching Out Barb Maison – Brief history of the Alliance achievements
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    • 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
    • The Unveiling
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