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Name: Janice Kashin Benson on Jul 3, 2008Comments: An apology was called for by a majority of mothers and adoptees at the conclusion of the The Sixth Australian Conference on Adoption in Brisbane, in 1997. We are still all waitingFlag
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Name: Sue Martin on Jul 3, 2008Comments: The Government of the time, didnt seperate the indigenous mothers from us Non-Indigenous mothers, we feel the pain as much as them. Its time actually overtime that We the non-Indigenous mothers got an APOLOGY,but even that will not easy the pain,of having our baby stolen, and left us with empty arms,and broken hearts.Flag
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Name: Cassandra Cooke on Jul 3, 2008Comments: I feel we deserve an apology, we have been going through pain from the day this happened as well as our children and the world is appearing to be getting worse not better. Our children hate their birth mother as they do not know the truth and also their lives are a mess as well and all the missd out loved that could have been given to our children has been wasted just because of women who could not have children but decided to take another person to make their life complete. They decided to get their house and set themselves up in life and then take and look down at a mother so they also did not upset their figure as well. They justify this by calling these mothers no good so to try and take the guilt off themselves for stealing others mothers babies.Flag
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Name: Christine Cole on Jul 3, 2008Comments: I want an apology not just for myself, but for my daughter and my grandchildren. They need to know that I loved my daughter and wanted to keep her. My daughter needs to know that she was never given away without a backward glance as was the propaganda of the day. I have missed my stolen daughter every day of my life and will until the day I die. I want my grandchildren to know they are cherished and loved and I believe an apology will go along way to letting them know that. What happened to my family must never, ever happen to anyone else again.Flag
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Name: Margaret Watson on Jul 3, 2008Comments: It's time the silent grief we adoptees and birth mothers carry was heard by the rest of the world.Flag
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Name: Jennifer Mitrevski on Jul 3, 2008Comments: To take a child from their mother and biological family goes against the basic human rights of that child. Ask the child/baby if that is what they want.Flag
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Name: Jo Fraser on Jul 4, 2008Comments: keep up the good work. It's about time those in power had their blindfolds taken away.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 6, 2008Comments: I had my daughter taken and also I was drugged on 42 doses of Barbituates and speed from 7months pregnant. This was put me into DID for 35 years and Post Traumantic Stress disorder. I was so bad I had no memory of even having a child. I was also raped coimg home from school that is how I became pregnent and now since the last 10 years of facing these horrible things the medical staff did to me and stole my child. My parents and myself wanted to keep her. I came from a middle class family . But the last 10 years has been a nightmare also finding out my adoption consent was also forged I am trying to amend that as well. I was a bokkeeper and loved working and now as I have to face this I can no longer work, all I do is cry all day. This is becasue of the criminal things these people did and the Government does not think we need some comp/apology. It is discusting when you can all live your wonderful lives.Flag
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Name: Jan Russ on Jul 6, 2008Comments: As with our indigenous sisters we mothers.....and our children suffer the agonising pain of loss and separation that time does not dull or heal.Flag
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Name: June Smith on Jul 7, 2008Comments: During the 1950s to 1970s thousands of indigenous mothers, and non-indigenous single mothers were forcibly deprived of their babies and children by Australian government's enactment in social engineering. There were laws in place, including the United Nations 1959 Declaration of the rights of the child, to protect me and my baby, yet statutory law was breached, duty of care was breached and governments were negligent in their approach to the illegal practices in adoption. Mothers of one nation and their babies are owed an apology for this cruel era of abuse of women. Yet the Prime Minister has been cruelly discriminatory in his apology to the indigenous mothers and their children by not including the non-indigenous single mothers and their children.Flag
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Name: Helen Cotter on Jul 9, 2008Comments: The whole process has caused me immeasurable heartache and loss. My daughter, myself and my family will forever be changed by this evil practise.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 12, 2008Comments: The backlash from the initial abuse goes from the cradle to the grave. The society is still abusing natural mothers hindering trust between the stolen adult adopted child and natural mother. Nurses ,doctors ,religious leaders and social workers refuse to accept responsibility for molesting others lives .We need their apologies as well,in order for us to move on and be accepted in society .Also enough of the derogatory birthtagsFlag
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Name: Robyn Cohen on Jul 20, 2008Comments: I have had 5 years of counselling and been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and complicated unresolved grief resulting from the actions of staff during my delivery and hospitalisation and the unlawful separation from my baby.Flag
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Name: Barbara Maison on Jul 28, 2008Comments: Acknowledgement of the cruel and obscene abuses perpetrated by those in authority who morally were there to "help" us: churches and the law - those who coldly and sadistically removed our children from us, stating that we were denying them the right to a "normal, loving two-parent home" during the boom years of adoption, and since - would possibly go some way to ease the hurt and pain we hve suffered and still endure. But what of the children who did not live that wonderful, happy life we supposedly would have denied them, had we kept them Those children adopted into unsuitable homes who ended up in state and foster care, those who used drugs, turned to crime, and the many who ended their lives in desperation because they were "not wanted by their mothers"; those same mothers who spent years grieving for their unknown, missing but much-loved child - some who cannot after nearly 50 long years, still cannot know the name or identity of their child here in Victoria. If such recognition, by way of an apology, is made to all us mothers, and many the fathers who also grieve, I sincerely hope that it is from the heart and not merely a political stunt.Flag
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Name: Joanne Dixon on Aug 1, 2008Comments: Thanks to a narrow minded government I have a brother I dont know. Give these Women an apology.Flag
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Name: Lorraine Heaven on Aug 14, 2008Comments: I was found guilty, shamed and shunned for being an "unmarried mother" as if marriage was the only way to have a child. The effect is still with my child and with me. An apology would be nice but it will never make up for the forty years we spent apart. Shame Australia.Flag
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Name: Lorraine Heaven on Aug 14, 2008Comments: I was found guilty, shamed and shunned for being an "unmarried mother" as if marriage was the only way to have a child. The effect is still with my child and with me. An apology would be nice but it will never make up for the forty years we spent apart. Shame Australia.Flag
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Name: Lorraine on Aug 20, 2008Comments: This apology to the non-indigenous mothers that had their baby/s taken through Adoption should have been done many many years ago and should have been included with the Apology in February 2008.Flag
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Name: Jacki Bailey on Jun 17, 2009Comments: I was lucky to keep my child, with my parents backingFlag
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Name: Jeanette Broekman on Jun 18, 2009Comments: On behalf of my Mother - who died in 2005 with a broken spirit, and on behalf of myself, an adoptee who grew up believing that I was an "unwanted baby" - only to discover I was very much wanted. To discover that I was stolen from my vulnerable, unsupported Mother, who was injected with heroin, pethedine, ergometrine, and phenergan during labor, and that I was resusitated with drugs - is something I still struggle with every single day. My Mother described the birth as "euphoric and a party atmosphere" - no wonder. The treatment that my Mother received at the "home" as well as not being told her rights, drugged to the extreme, and sent home to pretend she never had a baby caused her trauma that she took to her death, as will I.Flag
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Name: Kerry Schippers on Jun 18, 2009Comments: When my child was taken I lost not only her,I lost my self as well. It has taken me 42 years of diligent painstaking work to regain my sense self and 15 years of patience to gain the confidence of my daughter. What was done to both of us is a stain on society that needs to be addressed. I want an apology and a heart felt one at that.Flag
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Name: Maria Vint on Jun 18, 2009Comments: As an adoptee I am reaching to the other side of the world as I live in New York. My sisters everywhere are in a dilemma of stigmatization for having had children out of wedlock and having their babies stolen. I appeal in solidarity for an apology to all the mothers who had their babies taken without reason or rhyme.Flag
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Name: Darlyne Lounsbury on Jun 18, 2009Comments: Shame, shame on the Government of Australia. Do the right thing and apologize!Flag