by Hana Crisp | Jun 30, 2026 | News
30/06/2026 Media Release Victoria’s specialist support services for people who were forcibly adopted are in jeopardy, after VANISH’s request for funding to continue its critical post-adoption counselling and peer support programs was denied. From the...
by Hana Crisp | May 27, 2026 | News
By Jennifer Pont Last month, on 21 March, was the thirteenth anniversary of the National Apology for Forced Adoption delivered by then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard. I’m sure a lot of people took no notice. I missed it, and I’m an adoptee, but adoptee stuff tends to go...
by Hana Crisp | Apr 8, 2026 | Personal Stories, Resources
By Cheyne Bull, adoptee It was June 2020 and I was working in a frontline homeless service in the middle of a pandemic. My team were doing ‘fun’ activities each week to keep us connected and lighten the stress of our work. For this week’s activity, we each had to do a...
by Hana Crisp | Apr 7, 2026 | News
On a sunny autumn afternoon, VANISH and ARMS Victoria members gathered at the Taken Not Given memorial in East Melbourne to mark the 13th anniversary of the National Apology for Forced Adoptions, delivered by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard AC on 21 March 2013....
by Hana Crisp | Feb 9, 2026 | News
In December 2025, two powerful theatre works took the stage at Gasworks Arts Park’s Studio Theatre, developed by adoptee, theatre-maker and researcher Dr Alison Ingram in collaboration with adult adoptees and mothers of loss to adoption. On 15 December, Infans,...
