Australia to apologise for forced adoptions
- Published: 19 Dec 2012 at 11.46
- Online news: Asia
Australia will formally apologise for the forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s, the government said Wednesday.
Australia's Parliament House in Canberra on September 7, 2010. Australia will formally apologise for the forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s, the government said Wednesday.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the apology for the adoptions, driven largely by religious groups in the post-war period, would be given on March 21 in Parliament House, Canberra.
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