Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations and symbols
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Adoptions in Australia 2003-04
      • Introduction
      • Categories of adoption
      • Overview of adoptions in 2003-04
      • Trends in adoption
    2. Detailed information
      • Placement adoptions
        • Trends in placement adoptions by non-relatives
        • Local placement adoptions
        • Intercountry placement adoptions
        • Ages of children
        • Placement of children
        • Characteristics of adoptive families
      • 'Known' child adoptions
      • Adoption of Indigenous children
      • Permanent care orders
      • Access to information
        • Information applications
        • Contact and identifying information vetoes
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Summary of legislation
      2. Glossary
      3. Provisions for 'open' adoptions
      4. Appendix tables
      5. Countries party to the Hague Convention
      6. Access to information and veto systems
    • References