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Name: Therese Hawken on Aug 31, 2009Comments: i did not get to grow up with Mother and my Son did not get grow up with me ,Two generations torn apart.and i am still my mothers secret.Flag
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Name: Katherine on Sep 5, 2009Comments: I did not have my baby stolen for adoption in a Government institution My baby was passed to the adopt ors She was stolen who apologizes to me and to the others like me Who apologizes to the victims of Rapid adoption and in some cases castration Please do not remove this from your site because you will loose credibility with government bodies because you are playing with the figuresFlag
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Name: Barbara Maison on Sep 8, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: Barbara Maison on Sep 9, 2009Comments: It is quite clear in the Petition text that this petition was created for mothers who do want an apology!Flag
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Name: I. Labo on Sep 10, 2009Comments: I cannot understand why you would come on a site that is supporting getting an apololgy to argue against it. You are either very rude or totally insensitive to others. You want an inquiry then fight for it not against those of us who want and need an apology for our healing.Flag
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Name: Lizzy Brew on Sep 10, 2009Comments: Dear Labo, My message is neither rude nor insensitive but expressed in the principle of freedom of speech. This difference of opinion should not challenge those of true conviction. It is important to keep an open mind, as we can then be free to make the kind of informed choices we were deprived of as vulnerable pregnant women. LizzyFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Sep 28, 2009Comments: I am a natural mother and was subjected to sexual abuse and assault during my pregnancy with my baby by hospital staff in Melbourne. My baby and I were separated in the labor ward illegally, unethically and immorally.Flag
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Name: Sandra Charles Nee Hemingway on Oct 3, 2009Comments: It was 1973 and at 15 I was pregnant. I was sent to kiononia Unwed Mothers Hostel run by the Uniting Church in Brisbane to wait and have my baby then to place my baby up for adoption as so many other girls did at the home. Having spent my 16 birthday in the Royal Women`s Hospital a week later I delivered my son. I heard the staff talking about the baby being up for adoption and they were about to rush him out the room, however a nurse asked if I would like to see him. I couldnt. Later my mother arrived and I broke down begging her for me to keep him. She agreed because she knew only too well what it was like to be a forgotten child as she had been institutionalised and a ward of the state from the age of 2 till 18. As my mother left that night all I remember her saying to me was dont sign any papers without her there. The next day upon hearing of my decision a member from the church came to the hospital and told me I was unfit to keep and raise my child and that my baby will amount to nothing. How could I expect to raise a child by myself. For many years I lived with the guilt and stigma of being an unwed mother but I soon realised I was a very good mother and so very proud of my son.Over the last 35 years I have often wondered about the other girls in the home and the children they placed up for adoption and if they ever think about them. My mother now passed on was one of the forgotten children and all she wanted was an apology for everything she endured from a life in homes and foster care. Now my heart goes out to the many other girls now women that were pregnant and forced to give up their babies. I can only imagine the heart ache over all these years and your memories of your taken babies. So I add Mr Rudd apologise to these women for taking their children away.Flag
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Name: Kerri on Nov 21, 2009Comments:Flag
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Name: Trenna Pearse on Mar 12, 2010Comments: I am with you Christine, Just let me know what you want me to do. xFlag
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Name: Izzy on Apr 4, 2010Comments: Ever since members of origins such as Elizabeth Edwards and Lizzie Brew have posted on this site it has been sabotaged. Deleted emails have suddenly reappeared and now we have a whole page of spam. Geek was that you??? (aka Tim Simith) I was told you had the power to bring down an entire website of the Queensland govt just for kicks on your birthday – so this would be a walk in the park for you. Whatever - members of this site have made complaints about what is nothing less than cyber bullying and we have left all your garbage up so others can see what one well-known psychiatrist stated is true: “Origins has degenerated into a small but very vicious group” - what a waste of energy attacking and being vicious to the very people you say you representFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2010Comments: Ever since members of origins such as Elizabeth Edwards and Lizzie Brew have posted on this site it has been sabotaged. ____________________________ Correlation does not equal causation.Flag
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Name: Karen Tonkin on Jun 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ayana Noble on Jun 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 26, 2010Comments: Whois Record Reverse Whois:"Kapur, Akash" owns about2 other domains Email Search: is associated with about 3 domains Registrar History:1 registrar NS History:1 change on 2 unique name servers over 4 years. IP History:3 changes on 3 unique name servers over 4 years. Whois History:12 records have been archived since 2007-11-26 . Reverse IP:15,814 other sites hosted on this server. Log In or Create a FREE account to start monitoring this domain name DomainTools for Windows® Now you can access domain ownership records anytime, anywhere... right from your own desktop! Download Now> Registrant: Kapur, Akash 162 E. 23 St., Apt 3C New York, NY 10010 US Domain Name: ANGLETHREEASSOCIATES.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Kapur, Akash 162 E. 23 St., Apt 3C New York, NY 10010 US 212-656-1889 Record expires on 23-Oct-2011. Record created on 23-Oct-2006. Domain servers in listed order: NS62.WORLDNIC.COM 206.188.198.31 NS61.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.31Flag
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Name: Gracelyn B Hill (Grace Daniel) on Sep 7, 2010Comments: Admitted to King Edward Hospital in 1968, where I had my doughter. I was unmarried at the time and was told that I couln't keep my baby. I wanted to keep my baby and was told that it was for the best interest of the baby to be adopted out. I was never allowed to hold her or to see her. I had no support of any kind from my parents and welfare. I was treated unkindly. I was made to pay for the three week while my baby was in hospital waiting to be adopted. If you need more info, please contact me on the above email. Thank youFlag
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Name: Helen Russell on Oct 17, 2010Comments: As a child that was adopted I have both felt and seen the emotionally detrimental effects of adoption on myself and my birth motherFlag
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Name: Cheryl Delalande on Oct 18, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Patrick Wheatley on Oct 18, 2010Comments: An adoptee, 46 years after the awful event, my birth mother and I still struggle to overcome the damage done at my relinquishment. Not just government and associated agencies bear responsibility here but also the Catholic Church have much to answer for. I'm so sick of the "but that's just how things were in those days" nonsense. The point is that it's not only a matter of WHAT was done at the time but too often of HOW it was done. The cruelty, the malice of one person in position of relative power to another very much at that individual's mercy. As we know from even a cursory knowledge of history the misdeeds that occur whenever such power inequities occur are manifest and well documented.Flag
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Name: Gioia on Oct 18, 2010Comments: I just heard Christine speaking on Radio National about the apology in the WA government tomorrow. Fantastic effort and thankyou for giving both women and their children the opportunity to have their voices and feelings heard! An apology can not repair the hurt inflicted by a judgemental society on both these women and their children but it may draw attention to the importance of mothering, the deep emotional bonds between a child and its birth mother and the impact of seperation on both. I was adopted in 1964 and grow up in a family who loved me, provided for me and never hid from me the fact of my adoption. However, I never felt that I belonged, have always had a sense of abandonment and battle every day with feelings of self-hatred. I do not know if this is a legacy of adoption although I believe that early experiences leave deep scars.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 19, 2010Comments: I am sending this signed petition on behalf of my mother, who had a baby ripped away from her on the day of it's birth when my mum was 16. Her son, who she later tracked down, had passed away, so she had no way of reconciling with him and explaining that she had no choice. This trauma will never leave my mother.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Andrea Nolan on Oct 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Andrea Nolan on Oct 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David N on Oct 23, 2010Comments: I am an adoptee, the decision makers of the time owe us far more than just an apology. I watch the video associated with the following link & see the individual who has his say @ 03:18. It is people like him who brought this philosophy to society back then. I sincerely hope this person reads this watches the video & identifies himself & admits to being a nothing more than a fraud. http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/10/15/3040056.htmFlag
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Name: Carmel Ward on Nov 20, 2010Comments: The WA Adoption Apology was well received. It has awakened suppressed feelings but opened pathways to healing. It is now time for all State Parliamentss and the Federal Parliament to make this apology to the mothers and the children who were lost to adoption.Flag
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Name: Judith Hendriksen on Nov 22, 2010Comments: I received not one apology this year but two. One from the Sisters of Mercy Perth March 2010, and the Western Australian Govnernment October 19th, 2010. I had my first born a daughter taken right at birth on my 17th birthday in 1973 and put up for adoption, against my express wishes "I dont want my baby adopted out". One month later in ref to apology on 19th Oct I still cant quite put it into the correct words how I feel. But one thing I do know for sure is I feel so relieved and my health have inproved a great deal since. I have been suffering with PTSD, and other health issue .There is no doubt none at all that all my health issue stem from that abuse, made on me and my innocent first born, around on and after my 17th birthday and for years after sadly as well. Drugged up fro years I was. Apologies long overdue most needed and wanted for all the rest of Australian now too on a federal and state level time you all follow ed the Western Australians lead and honesty in this, and do likewise asap. Only the truth can truly set us free.Flag
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Name: Lynne Ford on Mar 11, 2011Comments: I was stolen on May 1 1968, I am damaged, I found my real mother 5 years ago, she is damaged also. I grew up abused and then thrown into a home by my adopted parents after they didn't want me anymore. They loved their 2 blood sons but treated me like an outsider with NO love. My life has been hell. Adopted people from bad adoptions need a voice too!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 29, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Murray Roy Legro Born Kerry Michael Clark on May 29, 2011Comments: What more can one say. It is time to right this grave injusticeFlag
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Name: Andrea Beeston on Jun 3, 2011Comments: I am an adoptee.Flag
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Name: Vicki Troman on Jun 9, 2011Comments: im white my parents couldnt have kids so they stole mine he was a cop n thinks he can do anything she was a member of t first fleeters. they made me sign paperwork when i was 14 i had a dawta n it was covered up then in 77 i had another n was told it was stillborn there is no birth or death certificate n nothing in t coroners office yet another baby turned up at my parents when i was 12 my stepmother told me i was going to be a prostitute her relatives coerced me into it later in life to make it look like i was unfit i blamed myself for t babies death n turned alcaholic n didnt care wat happened to me. so went along wiv them not only did i miss out on my kids but grandkids too n i watched whilst they gave away my dawta at her wedding i am soooo heartbroken how could they do this to meFlag
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Name: Virginia Lawrence on Jul 25, 2011Comments: 1968 when I was 16, my baby boy was born at Burwood hospital, Vic. After 8 months of pregnancy, when no-one else knew about it, I told my parents. From that point I was not allowed out of the house, until I had my little boy. I went to the hospital alone, naive, not knowing a thing about life - not even how babies were born. After a forced enema, I was shaved and taken to the labour room where I gave birth. Without drugs or gas, all I was aware of was the abuse by the theatre sister. I didn't see him, because of the screen. My milk was dried up by drugs. No visitors came. I went home and what happened was not ever mentioned again. The only people who discussed it were all the psychiatrists I saw in the institutions I lived in for many years after. You can't take a baby from a young girl and expect her to remain sane.Flag
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Name: Michelle-searching For Kay Bergin on Jul 27, 2011Comments: I have no idea where my birth mother is now and I want to find my relatives. Finally, FINALLY I get my day to say -this was wrong. If anyone knows my family in England or in Neutral Bay then please keep searching for me as I want to find you. I live in Melbourne.Flag
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Christopher M Cochrane on Sep 29, 2011
Comments: Being a South Australian Adopted child whose mother was a single catholic young mother I strongly support this petition and will be strongly behind this very shameful part of Australian history coming to light this issue should no longer be swept under the carpet and should be dealt with in the proper respectful manner no if's, but's or maybe's it is long over due and needs to be addressed now.... As a Independent candidate for the senate in 2010 and for the next Elections to follow this issue to me has been one of the reasons I chose to run as the system is broken and it needs to be fixed so that no mother, child or their family have to be put through this ever again regardless of race, color removing one's child for no child protection issue is just wrong and should never be part of our Australian family makeup solution...Flag -
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Name: Jacki Bailey on Oct 2, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelly Carroll on Oct 31, 2011Comments: My Grandmother was Austrian, She gave birth to a perfectly healthy girl Ana Magda, in 1955 at the Queen Victoria Hospital, South Australia. After speaking little english, and writing down the name of her child, the hospital renamed her "Anne Magaret" on her birth certificate. On the records she was extremely healthy. The next day, she was "dead", however my grandmother was never allowed to see her dead child. After pleading and pleading. She never received a death certificate. We have tried, and never received a death certificate from the hospital. My Mother spoke to the doctor that delivered the child in the 90's, (he was in his late 80's). she asked if she could get a "Copy" of the death certificate, because we lost it. unbelievably, his response. "I hope your not saying Mrs Carroll, we illegally adopted babies out". My mother never asked that.Flag
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Name: Marion Bell on Dec 14, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Marion Bell on Jan 17, 2012Comments: Apology is paramount,and the truth must be told to our stolen children...Flag
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Name: Catherine Edwards on Jan 25, 2012Comments: Son kidnapped at birth by the nuns at St Annes (Mercy) Mt LawleyFlag
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Name: Marion Bell on Feb 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Gabrielle Flannery Conlon on Feb 19, 2012Comments: Request for an apology to mother's for denying them their human rights. That is the least you could do. I hope to see it done in all countries.Flag
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Moni Laing on Feb 20, 2012
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Name: Robin Turner on Mar 18, 2012Comments: Well done all Alliance members for your hard work. The best is yet to come. When we stand together united we are unbeatable,Flag
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Name: Dr Denise A N Wallis on Mar 19, 2012Comments: I hope this is acted on quickly now.Flag
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Name: Joanna King on Mar 20, 2012Comments: deception & power over another is wrong & deserves an apology at mimimumFlag
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Name: Ann Martz on Mar 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Kimberly Miller on Mar 27, 2012
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Name: Lorraine Petta on Mar 27, 2012Comments: At 16, in Melbourne, Australia, I was "made" to "legally" sign adoption papers to give my son away!Flag
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Name: Kaiya Fraser-Ham on Mar 27, 2012Comments: All the apologies in the world cannot undo the widespread damage done to us and our children. As mothers were have been disenfranchised and now we are expected to have to pay to have access to information! Surely that just adds insult to injury.Flag