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"Open Submission / Letter to Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman about the push for easy adoption laws"

adoption scamDear Mrs Deborra-Lee Furness and Mr Hugh Jackman,

My name is Marney MacDonald and I work with a team of great people in the child protection arena. Our business has just been recognised as a charitable institute – and no, we're not writing to ask for money.

We write to you as the partner of Deborra-Lee Furness, who is currently pushing rather strong to have the Australian Federal Government make it easier for adoption of children.

Mrs Furness’ recent comments about hoping to have Prime Minister Abbot to push for reform on what she refers to “flawed adoption flaws”. [1]

You wife also states that “It's a matter of streamlining the process and doing it better. We are hoping to get the ear of Tony Abbott.'' [2]

 As much as this sounds like a wonderful idea, in theory, in practise I feel your wife may be pushing for ideas that she may be a little ill-informed about. The idea of having a child that is in foster care being adopted permanently by a kind-loving family sounds great, and it is, so long as you are absolutely certain that all the “I’s” have been dotted and “T’s” have been crossed.

And this is where the very long list of errors starts occurring when it comes to adopting children. May I remind you firstly of the stream of apologies from Australia’s commonwealth and state governments for abuses that hundreds of thousands of children have suffered, and millions of families who lost siblings and children altogether.

People are still suffering because the government made decisions, that they were not accountable for, and unfortunately are still making those decisions, and being unaccountable today.

We have estimated, that as many as ninety percent of children in care, (children your wife is pushing to have adopted), SHOULD NOT BE THERE.

This may sound alarming, or maybe even absurd to you, but may I remind you that we have been working extensively in this field for four years and our team has studied hundreds of cases, and read thousands of pages of government paperwork that relates to the removal of a child from their parents. So please Mr Grant, do not think we speak from an uneducated point of view.

Thousands of children are being removed prior to there ever being a court hearing to determine that a child has been found proven of being at risk of harm, or in need of care. This includes newborn babies. In some cases we have seen babies removed at birth, placed in foster care, and the child is now over one year old – and it has not ever been proven that the child was at risk of harm. This is called the “establishment phase”.

In the Children’s Court, the rules of evidence (to prove a parent has neglected or abused their child) DO NOT EXIST. [3] This means that caseworkers do not even have to prove that a parent has abused or neglected their child prior to removing them and placing them in foster care, nor do they have to do this to have an 18 year order placed on them. (These are the children your wife wants to be able to adopt easier).

Mr Jackman, this is no joke, and this is why there are almost forty-thousand children in foster care Australia wide. The figures are possibly substantially higher also, because the government fails to provide the exact amount of children being removed and kept in care at any given time.

In cases where children have been removed, and the parents have proven themselves against all the fictitious allegations of the department, magistrates merely quote some former case they prefer to use to say that the child has been in care too long and that it would have a negative impact on the child to send them back home to their parents. This does happen.

In other cases where there has actually been a police investigation into the conduct of parents, where no charges have been laid, the department also kept the children in foster care, quoting the same argument that the children have a bond with the carer and it would have a negative impact on the children to send them back home. These are not fictitious cases Mr Jackman.

And these children are living, breathing, human beings that are being denied their mummies and daddies because the department is not accountable. These are children, that are now possibly going to be adopted out, where the government has no accountability whatsoever for them, that should have never been removed from their parents in the first place.

We ask you, to hear me in what we are saying, and to discuss in seriousness of the adoption campaign that she (your wife) is pushing for, when the system is as tainted as it is. I beg you to have her meet myself and my colleagues so she can understand what is happening - as with her fame and her power, she can be contributing to catastrophic events of the past where hundreds of thousands of children and families are being destroyed, not helped, because her campaigning is for a completely flawed system that is accountable to nobody.

Warm regards,

The Team at Alecomm.

 


http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/deborralee-furness-lashes-out-at-australias-adoption-record-20131109-2x8iy.html

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/deborralee-furness-lashes-out-at-australias-adoption-record-20131109-2x8iy.html#ixzz2kNsvS4nov

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/caypapa1998442/s93.html

 

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+2 #3 Kezra62Guest 2014-02-04 20:59
I am tired of the lies that Ms Furness spreads, and I am alarmed at the media's mindless ability to question what she is sprouting. Once again we are being led down the path of the rich and powerful influencing star struck clueless little people with power to hurt and harm the poor and vulnerable. Australia just finished apologising for former forced adoptions, I know I was sitting in the third row because I am an adoptee. I was taken from my mother and given to a couple who used me for child slave labour. I was abused, and tortured by the very people chosen to be better for me than my own mother. My mother had 4 other children in her care, they never suffered any abuse of any kind. I have a compound fracture of the spine, which has left me on pain meds every day with regular trips to a chiro and specialist treatment. Thanks MUM and DAD and thanks to the government for placing me with such loving adoptive parents. I am now 51 years old and still suffering and very little has been done for me to help me cope with the physical and mental trauma. Mr Abbott proved on the day of the apology that he did not care about what happpened to any of us. His speech was rude and arrogant to say the least. This whole policy is about looking after the rich and punishing the poor. The family unit is the most valued of all relationships and must be guarded and protected above all. As a country and community we must do more to help families stay together, for it you destroy the parent you destroy the child. Biological families best for children even if there is dysfunction. The trauma of separation is too great, it is a grief a kin the death that plagues you your entire life. If children cannot stay with their biological parents, then children must be placed with other families members if at all possible ( THIS SHOULD BE SEEN AS A PRIORITY RATHER THAN WITH STRANGERS) Just place yourself in the shoes of the child and if for any reason you could not live with your parents, would you want to be ripped away from your grandparents, cousins,uncles, aunts etc adoption to strangers does not seem adequate. As a nation we should be asking why children are not being placed with extended family but rather strangers and then tax payers are forking out up to 600 dollars a week for one child to stay in that home. Fix the family, provide the help for mental health issues, substance abuse, disabilities for mums and dads, who may in a time of need, could be provided short term help that can lead to a long term solution. Adoption is a short term solution with long term consequences, adoptees are more likely to suffer relationship problems, drug and alcohol issues,mental breakdown, ill health, criminal, intense anger problems, depression, suicide, at risk behaviors. Many studies have been done, it's a pity that our government is not readying it or is just ignoring it. As an adoptive parent Ms Furness has a lot to learn and if she does not heed the warning from those trying to tell her now, she will suffer the consequences of her arrogant theories down the track. Playing God with children's lives will have to be answered for one day, but seeing as they think they got away with it in the past they think they can keep getting away with it.I believe in a God who holds all people accountable sooner or later, for all the good they do and for all the wrong.....Nothi ng passes His notice, not one lie, or abuse of power, or manipulation of people or stats, or promises of money. .. What is being done is wrong and as nation we need to stand up and say no more corruption especially when it comes to our children.
+4 #2 Childrens AdvocateGuest 2013-11-21 07:40
Pru Goward ( Neoliberalistic Community Services Minister ) is leading the charge on the new Forced Adoption Laws in NSW. The NSW Child Protection Department is now prepared to return the dirty history of the past after a hypocritical and empty apology to the 10's of thousands of Forced Adoption victims across NSW. We now have a Community Services Minister in NSW who has supported the Abusers of the Past now known as NGO's taking over the files of 80%of children in OOHC. Todays National Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse by the Clergy and Institutions along with the NSW Enquiry proves that these NGO's do not act in the best interest of the child and in fact have worked to the detriment of the child. Be it the Forgotten Australians , Stolen Generation and Forced Adoption Victims the State has proved to us all that the Child's best interest has not been served by the state at all. What Pru Goward is sending out in her message on new adoption laws is that Children in OOHC have now been put in the too hard basket and are to be just given away, and locked behind the closed doors of Adoption. This new law Goward is seeking and promoting will take NSW back to an era that this country should not be revisiting. The pain and suffering of the many thousands of victims of Forced Adoptions is evidently something Pru Goward does not and can not relate to and has therefore chosen to ignore all that human pain and suffering and is prepared to take NSW down that road once again. Child Protection NSW is systemic failed system that has been neglected by decades of negligent Political Parties along with the Ministers who have headed the department over these decades.The funds that have been poured into this system over these decades should have every child in OOHC living with dignity , happiness and a healthy future, but instead we witness them locked behind the Governments big closed doors of secrecy, departmental neglect , alienation from parents and family networks, drugged up to the hilt on mind altering dangerous drugs, shuffled and hoarded like sheep from placement to placement and continually damaged by this neoliberal child protection department where the only people prospering from the misery of these innocent children in care are the doctors without a conscience that continue to prescribe addictive and dangerous narcotic based drugs in order to manipulate and control these defenceless children, and so many other professionals who's pockets are being lined by the misery these children are experiencing in a failed system. Pru Goward needs to get out into Children's Courts, Districts Courts and High Courts around NSW and witness how hard thousands of parents and grandparents are fighting in these courts to have their children returned and it is here she will witness where millions of tax payer dollars are being spent and squandered on lawyers who are assisting goliath in keeping children in state care who DO NOT WARRANT State Care. Pru Goward we hope will live to rue the day she brought Forced Adoptions back from a place where they should be dead and buried.
+6 #1 Diarmuid HanniganGuest 2013-11-13 19:32
Adoption is just another word for child theft. At least 80$of the mothers who give their child up for adoption suffer sever mental illness. Not a pleasant senario. Any form of adoption is not good.

These problems are symptoms of a society gone wrong, a society without care or compassion, a society that refuses to address the causes of these ills and work out solutions.

This may go someway as to why we have the problem.

Boats that bring culture, a wisdom spurned by Australian law makers to the detriment of Australian families.


Our multicultural society and the impact of inheritance law in Australia upon family development.
Our multicultural society has evolved as a result of worldwide events. These events have resulted in a large number of overseas families deciding that Australia is a good place to re-establish their families after social disruption including war, revolution and the breakdown of law and order within their countries of origin.
These people came to Australia in boats and Airplanes which I call “Culture”. They often arrived in Australia with no material wealth and relied upon the culture they and their family members bought with them. Their cultural input was so influential that the Australian government invented the word Multicultural Society for the phenomenon. These people have spent their lives working hard in order to help their children establish their families in Australia. These families apart from overcoming language and cultural barriers are thrown in at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
Inheritance within these family structures plays a major role in their intergeneration al development as it plays a major part in determining the schools we attend, the suburbs we live in, the ability of our family to pay for critical intervention services during our lives, and the holidays we spend together with our family. It influences the lives of our children our grandchildren and our offspring for eternity.
These families are particularly vulnerable to inheritance abuse by our current legal processing of inheritance matters.
• They are more likely to appoint a lawyer as an executor because they are deprived of an extended family network through the act of migration.
• They are less likely to have access to a permanent and trusted family lawyer.
• They will be unfamiliar with how the inheritance laws work within Australia and that because they have been constructed by lawyers in a nation that invented terra nullius are devoid of family input and fail to recognise the importance of healthy intergeneration al family development through inheritance.
We all know that wealthier people live longer and have happier lives on average. That is why so many of us work hard to earn more money so as we can become wealthier. Another component of wealth stems from inheritance. The wealthier the family heritage the wealthier generally are the offspring, provided factors impacting adversely upon that inherited wealth include war and acts of barbarism or theft are not enacted upon the family.
In our contemporary democratic and multicultural nation Australia we are educated to believe that we can trust lawyers. We know that when we hire a lawyer we are normally dealing with issues of life changing significance either for ourselves or for our family, in such an important consumer relationship we have to be assured that we can trust lawyers. The laws regulating lawyers bind them to their clients though the relationship of trust.
So important and fundamental is this trust between the public and the legal profession to the rule of law that our government finances the office of the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner to ensure us that any lawyers who are untrustworthy will be disciplined so as we can be assured that we can trust our lawyer.
Did you know that if you appoint a lawyer as an executor to your estate that when they become the executor they are no longer bound by the legal professional act and are not deemed to be acting as a lawyer by the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner?
Oh yes did you also know that Lawyers in Private Practice are not bound by the Victorian Charter of Human Rights. Last time I gazed in the mirror I saw a human, even though some may not see me as such and I never see dogs and cats entering lawyer’s offices only humans.

The failure of our legal profession to allow culture and family to incorporate into the law making process is a disgrace.
One has to ask why this is so. Particularly when we have all recognised that we are a nation of families many of whom have recently migrated to this land.
To see the problem one has to analyse the socioeconomic background of the legal profession. The majority of lawyers attend private schools which mean their families sit at the higher end of the social spectrum. The families have more money are better educated and because they have a high level of literacy in the English language, their children inevitably have a greater chance of getting the marks that will allow them to become lawyers. The exercise is self-perpetuati ng and is an intergeneration al transfer of legal power from one generation to the next within a confined social group. Due to the historical structure of this group of people who make up the majority of the legal profession, vested interest often dominates over social need when it comes to reforming our laws. The group itself can exert influence upon who will be given positions of influence and who will be excluded.
The legal profession currently has a serious conflict of interest by failing to develop a low cost efficient ,timely and truth seeking process to deal with inheritance matters and through its inactions is impeding the intergeneration al development of migrant families who have given up so much of their lives so as to re-establish their families in Australia.
The legal profession has been negligent in its duty of care to the Australian people by failing to incorporate this valuable cultural resource into the development and formation of our laws. Instead allowing Australia to remain tied to the rule of the lash and the culture of a prison.
Even though we have invented a new society with a new culture our legal profession has become delusional in preventing this culture to participate as we still operate under the format of a prison. Until family becomes the dominant influence during the law making process, we will never be able to cross the historical divide between, convict settlement and nationhood.
A cultural shift that abhors Grave Robbery will not occur and this will inevitably damage your families development.

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