Survivors of Australia's forced adoption scandal should be compensated under the nation's most extensive financial redress scheme into the devastating practice, a WA parliamentary inquiry recommends.
Forced adoption survivors gathered at state parliament to witness the inquiry report being tabled.A WA parliamentary inquiry into the devastating forced adoption scandal of last century has recommended financial redress for mothers, adopted people and some fathers.
The landmark inquiry comes 14 years after WA became the first state to apologise for the practice of removing newborn babies from their young mothers last century, many of whom were coerced into signing adoption papers. That goes further than Victoria, which has the first forced adoption redress scheme in the country, where only mothers are eligible for compensation.Committee chair, Labor MP Peter Foster, said the damage from the forced adoption era was "irreparable."
They're known as the Joey Girls — and they're one of the missing puzzle pieces in the story of Western Australia's forced adoption era.and a senate inquiry which delivered a raft of recommendations, many of which, survivors say, were never implemented. The report makes 38 other recommendations to better support survivors, including changes to legislation.Albany-based adoptee, Jen McRae, who led the campaign for the inquiry, said the recommendation for a redress scheme that includes adopted people was hugely significant.
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