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Adoption Legislation and Practice in Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Peter Fopp
Peter Fopp*
Affiliation:
Adelaide, S.A.
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Under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, adoption is not a matter on which the Commonwealth has power to legislate. Accordingly, each State and Territory has its own legislation which is administered by its social welfare department.

The States have co-operated to draft “uniform” legislation, and during the period 1964-1970, new legislation was enacted in all States and Territories. A major aim of the uniform Acts was to curtail the practice of private, or independent, adoptions, where the child was placed in the care of a person with a view to his adoption, without any prior approval of the placement by a government department or an approved private adoption agency.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Winter 1979 , pp. 12 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

References

A brief statement of adoption legislation and practice of the eight States and Territories based on a background paper prepared for talks on inter-country adoptions.