00:02The Inquiry has called for an increase in the number of what are known as simple adoptions
00:07whereby the children still retain a legal connection to their birth parents.
00:11Under Queensland law, currently only offer plenary adoptions where that legal connection
00:16is severed.
00:18The Inquiry says that adoptions are preferable to the current system whereby children are
00:22often living long term in places like care homes or perhaps bouncing around in different
00:27foster care arrangements which are often unstable and disruptive to a child's development.
00:33And no one is arguing that the current state care system here in Queensland is functioning
00:37well.
00:38The Inquiry has heard that this system is bursting at the seams, children are often living in
00:42quite terrible conditions and that the system doesn't offer the support it needs to the foster
00:47parents either.
00:48The problem is there hasn't been an adoption from state care since 2019 and experts say
00:53that's often because the sort of fairytale ending that a lot of people are looking for
00:57just isn't panning out often enough.
01:00But the National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, Sue-Anne
01:04Hunter, has raised concerns about the idea of increasing the number of adoptions from
01:09state care, particularly given the country's history with the stolen generations.
01:14She and others have suggested that there are other options for the state to look at such
01:19as long term care arrangements, permanent care, kinship care or guardianship care.
01:26But the state does seem determined to push ahead with increased adoptions.
01:31professionals may be the most important in the country's history under the state of the
01:31science of the São Paulo and Torres Strait Islander young people.
01:31I think one of the most important changes is that a government of the South South South South South East,
01:33the home of the South South East, the home of the South South East and the U.S.
01:35You
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