Apology for Forced Adoptions - NSW - Speaker Introduction and Statement of Lyn - a Victim- Sep 20, 2012

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Apology for Forced Adoption Practices. Video of proceedings in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on September 20, 2012.

Opening introduction by Speaker Hon. Shelley Elizabeth Hancock. Remarks of Liz - A Victim of Forced Adoption policies.

The following Apology for Forced Adoption Practices was adopted by both Houses of the Parliament of New South Wales on Thursday, 20 September 2012:

This House acknowledges the traumatic effects of the forced adoption practices of the past that have echoed through the lives of tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, people adopted as children and their families; and

All Members of this House, with profound sadness and remorse, say to those living with the ongoing grief and pain of forced adoption practices, that we are sorry.

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