Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso page
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Body section
    1. Introduction
    2. Background
      • Categories of adoption
      • Adoption processes
    3. An overview of adoptions in Australia
      • Adoptions in 2007-08
      • Trends
    4. Detailed information
      • Intercountry adoptions
      • Local adoptions
      • 'Known' child adoptions
      • Adoption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
      • Permanent care orders (Victoria only)
      • Access to information
    5. Discussion of key findings
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Statistical tables
      2. Legislation
        • B.1 Summary of legislation
        • B.2 Provisions for 'open' adoptions
        • B.3 Access to information and veto systems
      3. Countries party to the Hague Convention
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures