Table of contents

  • Contributing departments
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Adoptions in Australia
    • Introduction
    • Access to information
    • Adoptions by relatives
    • Adoptions by non-relatives
    • Inter-country adoptions
    • Adoptions  of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
  • 3  Adoptions 1993-94
    • All adoptions
    • Adoptions by relatives
    • Adoptions by non-relatives
    • Adoptions  of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
    • Changes over time
    • Access to information
    • Placement of overseas-born children
  • 4 The adoption process for non-relatives
    • Australian-born children
    • Overseas-born children
  • 5 References
  • 6 Detailed tables
  • 7 Explanation of terms
  • 8  Related  legislation
  • 9 Related  publications