GAY ADOPTION REPORT OVERDUE

The NSW Government has failed to release a report on the need for same-sex adoption laws that was legally required by Parliament two years ago.

When the last adoption reforms were passed in 2000 the Parliament demanded a review be undertaken no later than 2005 and a report be produced no later than March 2006.

“A number of issues related to this report were referred by the former Minister [of Community Services, Reba Meagher] to the Ministerial Advisory Committee for further consideration and advice by July 2007. The Ministerial Advisory Committee’s advice to the Minister is currently being considered,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Community Services (DoCS) told Sydney Star Observer earlier this year.

This week a spokesman for Kevin Greene, who replaced Meagher in April last year, said the advice was still being considered but would not say when the 2006 report would be released.

  See GAY ADOPTION REPORT OVERDUE
Sydney Star Observer, Australia