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