The conference was hosted by the Victorian Sate Government at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre on the 22nd and 23rd October 2012.
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Conference Program
| Conference Program: People - Perspectives - Practices, Adoption and Permanent Care |
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Day 1: Keynote Address
| Snapshots from the Long History of Adoption in Australia |
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Professor Shurlee Swain |
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| Life Story Work - A model of recovery for traumatised children who are adopted |
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Richard Rose |
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Day 1: Concurrent Sessions
| Film: Resilience |
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Tammy Chu |
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| Living with adoption: a quest for hope, healing and happiness |
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Thomas Graham |
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| Envisaging a new model of stability for Aboriginal children |
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Rene Sephton, Gemma Morgan |
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| Kinship bonds, ‘favourite uncle/aunt’ and ‘walking on eggshells’: life after reunion for birth fathers |
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Dr Gary Clapton |
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| A Report on the Findings of the Monash History of Adoption Project |
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Marian Quartly, Denise Cuthbert, Shurlee Swain |
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| Therapeutic Parenting: information, skills and support for parents of children with additional emotional and behavioural needs |
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Sandi Petersen |
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| The impact of Australia's past adoption practices: Results from a national study of those affected. |
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Dr Daryl Higgins, Pauline Kenny |
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| Who's in the Driver's Seat - The Practice of Care |
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Gregory Nicolau |
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| Q & A Panel Discussion: Transnational Adoptee Scholar & Artist Panel: Trends and Perspectives |
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Jane Trenka, Dominic Golding, HeeRa Heaser, Jessica Walton, Dr Indigo Willing |
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| VANISH - Reconnecting: reflection, rejection, contact and support groups |
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Coleen Clare, Lauren Burns |
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| Collaboration in open adoption: The birthmothers' experience |
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Dr Phillipa Castle |
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| The concept of disenfranchised trauma. Mothers and closed adoption |
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Brendon Carroll, Anglea Karavidas |
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| Adoptive mothering with openness - an autoethnography writ small |
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Dr Jennifer Rice |
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| Late Revelation – The impact of adoption in midlife |
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Margaret Watson |
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| Sowing the seeds for future apologies? Looking at practice in ICA in light of Australian government apologies related to forced child removal |
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Professor Denise Cuthbert, Dr Patricia Fronek |
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| Is adopting out the 'unchoice' in contemporary Australia |
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Anne Webster |
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| Why does it take so long? Delays in achieving adoption |
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Lisa Vihtonen, Ainsley Bryant |
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Day 2: Keynote Address
| Permanency and concurrent planning for children |
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Jeanne Kaniuk |
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| Birth Fathers and Adoption: An Academic, Professional and Personal Stock-Take of the Past and Present plus Some Future Challenges |
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Dr Gary Clapton |
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| Getting Korea on TRACK: Abandoning Discrimination, Adopting Mothers' and Children's Rights |
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Jane Trenka |
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Day 2: Concurrent Sessions
| A Continuum of Care |
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Sheri Shenker, Kathryn McLeod, Carmel Hussey |
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| Adopted Women as Mothers: preliminary findings of a PhD research study |
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Jenny Conrick |
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| The late discovery of adoptive and donor insemination offspring status: ethical implications for conceptual understandings of the ‘best interests of the child’ principle |
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Dr Helen Riley |
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| ‘Belonging’ and Out-Of-Home Care (Permanent Care in Practice) |
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Dan Barron |
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| Sinking the mother ship |
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Evelyn Robinson |
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Day 2: Panel Discussion - Use of Social Media
| The Role of Facebook in Post-Adoption Search and Support |
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Jane Adams |
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| Fanning the Flames of the Anti-Adoption Discourse on Facebook |
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Dominic Golding |
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| Capturing the KAD: 'K'orean 'AD'optee Social Media Collaboration in Australia |
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HeeRa Heaser |
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| The Role of Facebook in Post-adoption Search and Support |
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Charlotte Smith |
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