21 July 2008
Adoption and privacy
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Today on the program we're looking at plans by the Queensland government to allow people involved in adoptions before 1991 access to reciprocal personal information.
Should privacy be preserved or is full disclosure the best option?
Join the program today with your views on the legacy of Australia's adoption practices: has it resulted in the protection of vulnerable children or should we view it as a failed social experiment?
Guests
Janice Benson Kashin - artist and birth mother
Matthew Cotterell - coordinator Origins Queensland
Margaret Keech MP - Minister for Women Qld.
Denise Cuthbert - Monash University Melbourne
Mary Barry - spokewoman for Adoption Privacy Protection Group Qld.
Further Information
For a link to future Queensland adoption laws
For a link to the related privacy and access paper
For a link to the Adoptions Australia 2006-07
For information from originsnsw about the legality of Queensland adoptions
A link to some resources about adoption
Presenter
Paul Barclay
Story Researcher and Producer
Liza Holman and Matthew Leonard
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