Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Body section
- Introduction
- Categories of adoption
- Adoption legislation and processes
- Intercountry adoptions
- Local adoptions
- ‘Known’ child adoptions
- Report structure
- An overview of adoptions in Australia
- Adoptions in 2008–09
- Trends
- Trends in categories of adoptions
- 3 Detailed information
- Intercountry adoptions
- Country of origin
- Characteristics of adopted children
- Administration of Hague adoptions
- Characteristics of adoptive families
- Other intercountry adoptions
- Local adoptions
- Characteristics of adopted children
- Characteristics of birth mothers
- Administration of local adoptions
- Characteristics of adoptive families
- ‘Known’ child adoptions
- Characteristics of adopted children
- Adoption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Permanent care orders (Victoria only)
- Access to information
- Information applications
- Contact and identifying information vetoes
- Intercountry adoptions
- Discussion of key findings
- National patterns and trends
- Characteristics of adopted children
- Characteristics of adoptive families
- Access to information
- Inquiry into overseas adoptions
- International comparisons
- Adjustment following adoption
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Statistical tables
- Legislation
- Summary of legislation
- Commonwealth
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- Provisions for ‘open’ adoptions
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- Access to information and veto systems
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- Summary of legislation
- Countries party to the Hague Convention
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes