Proposed Conference Topics

Speaking topic: Adoption eugenics as practiced by past and current providers of adoption in Australia and internationally

Speaker - Mr Michael Kelly

BIO
- taken for forced adoption from his mother at birth.
- subject to medical experimentation
- has studied eugenics of the period in an amateur capacity and has a wealth of research to share

Speaking topic: Australian human rights abuses in permanent familial separation through adoption legislation and practice and official government policy
Speaker - Ms. Lily Arthur

BIO
- mother of a son taken for adoption in 1967.
- mother imprisoned (see "Gone to a Good Home".
- student of law (four years study).
- Certificate in Community Welfare.






Speaking Topic: The Father of All Thefts: surprising guardianship laws they don't want you to know
Speaker - Cameron Horn

BIO
- father of daughter taken for adoption in 1980.
- Masters in Professional Writing; Masters in Marketing
Journalist.
- Former NSW Parliamentary researcher.
- NSW Adoption Inquiry Witness.
- Author of the seminal Australian adoption novel, Rebecca's Law - sojourn of a stolen father (as Rohan McEnor).
- Author of 'A Father Speaks' (Origin website).
- Author of rebuttal to Higgins Report 2011 (Origins website)
- 13 years researching father's legal rights in adoption.