The second reading is on pages 7329-7331 and the debate is on 7382-7387.The Bill was intended to reform the adoption process in NSW in response to a report by the Law Reform Commission. 

Adoption Bill 2000 (NSW) - Second reading and Hansard debate, Legislative Assembly, 21 June 2000

From the 1970s onward there was a shift in NSW to ‘open adoptions’. Open adoption allows continued contact between the child and their birth parents. Laws in this period relate to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, however, the issue of open/closed adoptions has a particular impact on Aboriginal children, due...

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Adoption Bill 2000 (NSW) - Second reading and Hansard debate, Legislative Assembly, 21 June 2000

Adoption contact - open adoptions