This blog post from the Huffington Post describes what the author believes are contradictory actions and recent statements made by the Prime Minister of Australia in regards to adoption. According to this post, in March 2013 the Australian Prime Minister made a public apology for the forced adoptions that occurred in Australia throughout the 20th century. Recently, however, the Australian government has announced an intercountry adoption support service that would streamline intercountry adoptions by creating a “one-stop shop” for those looking to adopt children, among other things. The author believes these services are only concerned with the parents looking to adopt and not those who are at risk of losing their children. “[The Prime Minister’s] goal is not to help Australian children, but rather to help Australian citizens procure children, justifying this new policy with the ‘millions of orphans’ myth that has been proven to be intentionally inflated by those who profit from adoption,” says the author.
