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As the first Australian to win the Tour de France, Cadel Evans realised a lifelong dream. Now retired from racing, he speaks candidly about the ups and downs of life in the bicycle saddle.
Topics: family-and-children, adoption, sport, cycling, autobiography, health, drug-use, australia, ethiopia, france, switzerland
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Labor MP Nat Cook shares the story of how she found out she was adopted at the age of 29 through an unexpected phone call.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, community-and-society, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA conscience vote backs legislation which could allow same-sex couples in South Australia to adopt children.
Topics: adoption, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, rights, law-crime-and-justice, gays-and-lesbians, sa, adelaide-5000
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The Federal Government is ramping up pressure on the states and territories to reform their adoption laws to give the tens of thousands of children in state care the prospect of moving into a permanent home.
Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, family, adoption, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedSame-sex couples, single people, and couples undergoing fertility treatment will now be able to adopt a child in Queensland, with the Palaszczuk Government passing an amendment bill with the help of the three independent MPs overnight.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld
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| UpdatedChantal Doecke, one of the 3,000 babies flown out of Saigon in the closing days of the Vietnam War, tracks down a close relative, as ovarian cancer gives added urgency to her quest to find her birth family.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, 20th-century, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, vietnam, australia, asia, sa, adelaide-5000
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Nick Earls quit a medical career to write full time, and is now one of Australia’s most prolific and successful novelists. He believes reports that books are dying are greatly exaggerated.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, popular-culture, education, adoption, parenting, australia, brisbane-4000, northern-ireland
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| UpdatedOne of Brisbane's most recognisable voices opens up about adoption and his upbringing in the hope of encouraging others to speak out about their experiences.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, human-interest, radio-broadcasting, people
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| UpdatedA baby with Down syndrome at the centre of an international surrogacy dispute in 2014 was not abandoned in Thailand by his Australian parents, a court rules.
Topics: surrogacy, adoption, courts-and-trials, thailand, australia, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThere are concerns for the safety of two young Aboriginal children, aged four and seven, who have become serial runaways from a residential facility for children in state care.
Topics: family-and-children, community-and-society, adoption, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, newman-6753
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University of Sydney to receive an almost $3 million State Government grant to research ways to make it easier for people to adopt children in care.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, community-and-society, state-parliament, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Many adoption reunions lead to rejection and bring up feelings of abandonment, but the desire to search for one's roots is fundamentally human, an adoption counsellor says.
Topics: adoption, community-and-society, human-interest, parenting, family-and-children, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedOne day last year when mother-of-five Emma was browsing Facebook, a post appeared in her feed that would change her family's life forever.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, disabilities, children---toddlers, vic
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| UpdatedSocial Services Minister Christian Porter calls on state child protection agencies to shift their attitudes towards adoption, with new figures confirming the adoption rate in Australia has reached a new low.
Topics: family-and-children, adoption, states-and-territories, australia
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| UpdatedLegislation to allow same-sex couples to adopt passes the Victorian Parliament, after the Government decides to accept amendments made in the Upper House.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, family-and-children, adoption, state-parliament, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA Victorian woman hopes to reconnect people with their childhood photos, after discovering dozens of her aunt's priceless pictures taken in orphanages more than 50 years ago.
Topics: children, children---toddlers, stolen-generations, adoption, family, history, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedLess than two years ago, one young child with autism's vocabulary was limited to five words and tantrums were not unusual. Now a part of a family, 'Little man' is speaking sentences, reading and just 'loving life'.
Topics: family, adoption, play-and-learning, autism-spectrum-disorder, gays-and-lesbians, maffra-3860
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| UpdatedA group highly regarded for its ability to reconnect adoptive children with their Indian birth families is challenging the definition of human trafficking, highlighting the "exchange of money for a human body" in inter-country adoptions.
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Victoria's Equality Minister Martin Foley rejects a suggestion for faith-based exemptions to same-sex adoption laws proposed by the Australian Christian Lobby.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, adoption, family-and-children, state-parliament, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedWould-be parents are abandoning their goals of adopting a child because of the long and arduous nature of the adoption process, according to research.
Topics: adoption, family-and-children, community-and-society, federal-government, australia
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ACT Senator Zed Seselja says there are too many children in care and more needs to be done to remove the barriers to local adoption. He's deputy chair of a parliamentary committee looking at measures which could see more local kids adopted.