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Joe Hockey: “There is no budget crisis in Australian economy” – so why impoverish sole parents?
The government’s line that we have to cut spending because of the “debt and deficit crisis Labor has left us with” has been resoundingly denied by Treasurer, Joe Hockey. A pundit stated on ABC’s Insiders program (27/07/2014): “Well there has … Continue reading
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Tagged budget crisis, Forced Adoption, Joe Hockey, sole parents, welfare cuts, welfare spending
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Politicising foster care abuse to promote Forced Adoption: Call for adoption targets
Call for adoption targets and fewer family support services in Australia The CIS is demanding that Tony Abbott forcibly take more children – for their protection! The CIS recommends that authorities need to take more frequent legal action to have abused and … Continue reading
State sanctioned kidnap
“Bob Geldof, launching a report last December on the “barbaric” chaos of our family law system, called “state-sanctioned kidnap”, whereby social workers, abetted by family courts and an army of complicit lawyers and “experts”, routinely snatch children from loving parents … Continue reading
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Pregnant women will lose all support for 6 months under Abbott’s Cruel Budget
Following is a response I got from Terese Edwards, Chief Executive Officer – National Council of Single Mothers & their Children – to my post re refugees so despairing of their situation they were asking for their unborn children to be … Continue reading
Desperate Refugees beg for adoption to save their children
Some refugee mothers held within Australia’s inhumane detention system have become so desperate they are begging Australian families to adopt their children to give them a better life. They have become so desperate about the fate of their unborn babies and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoption, asylum seekers, birthmothers, Christmas Island, detention centre, Forced Adoption, migration, mothers, refugee, single mothers, surrogacy, unwed mothers
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Call for a Royal Commission
The following comment was a response to my yesterday’s post – I think however, it warrants being posted generally as it encompasses many of the crimes committed against mothers, fathers and their children perpetrated by the government and its representatives and for … Continue reading
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Health Fact Sheet: Supporting people affected by forced adoption
http://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/programs-services/forced-adoption-practices The Working Group (consisting of mothers, adopted persons and a father) advising the Federal Government on the most efficient and effective measures to assist those impacted by Forced Adoption have formulated a brief Health Fact Sheet. The aim of the Fact Sheet … Continue reading
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Learning from the Past: When Goverment deems it appropriate and when it does not
It took decades for mothers to achieve the NSW Upper House Inquiry into Past Adoption Practices (1998-2000) and then the Federal Senate Inquiry (2011-2012). These Inquiries foregrounded a shameful part of women’s history that had been hidden away for decades … Continue reading
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