Govt shelves plans to allow adopted people access to birth records

The Government has shelved plans to give adopted people automatic access to their birth information and records in its delayed information and tracing legislation.

Earlier this month, children's minister Katherine Zappone wrote to adoption rights stakeholders about the paused Adoption Information and Tracing Bill, advising them that it was the Attorney General's view that it is "constitutionally unacceptable to allow unrestricted access to birth information for adopted people".