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[Commonwealth Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices]
Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has endorsed the call for a national apology for past adoption policies, including forced adoption that affected up to 150,000 children and mothers.
The Senate Inquiry report into past adoption policies and practices has proposed the national apology following its investigations which started on November 15 2010 and, because of the huge volume of submissions, extended its deadline to February 2012. Catholic Health Australia (CHA) was one of more than 400 organisations and individuals that made a submission to the inquiry.
CHA last year issued its own apology to those, “who carry broken hearts as a result of the role that some Catholic organisations played in this widespread, common public policy practice of years past.”
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