Table of contents
- Contributing departments
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Symbols used in the tables
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Adoptions in Australia
- 2.1 Background
- 2.2 Current issues in adoption
- 2.3 Adoptions by relatives-Australian-born children
- 2.4 Adoptions by non-relatives
- 2.5 Adoption of Indigenous children
- 2.6 Permanent care orders
- 2.7 Access to information
- 3 Adoptions 1995-96
- 3.1 All adoptions
- 3.2 Adoptions by relatives-Australian-born children
- 3.3 Adoptions by non-relatives
- 3.4 Adoptions of Indigenous children
- 3.5 Permanent care orders
- 3.6 Access to information
- 4 Detailed Tables
- Appendix 1: Glossary
- Appendix 2: Summary of legislation
- Commonwealth
- States and Territories
- Appendix 3: Access to information and veto 'systems in the States and Territories
- Appendix 4: Abbreviations
- Bibliography