Hi everyone today is the 17th Anniversary  of  our World first Hospital Forced Adoption  Apology, given to myself Marg, Janice , & Lorraine, by Professor Ian Jones on behalf of The Royal Brisbane & Women',s Hospital, we  publically  Celebrated it on 8,9,10th of June with Channel 7 news doing the television coverage, We are going to have our meeting  next Tuesday the 26  May at the Maple Lane Cafe at Taigum shopping centre, starting at 12 pm. where we can have   a  bite to eat & a  drink.& catch up with one another. more information please phone trish 0417077159  

                                 Hi everyone our First meeting for ALAS   in 2026

                          Will be Saturday 7 th March   

                       at    East Leagues Club 

                            Main Avenue . Coorparoo. 

                         time  12 pm  until approximately  3pm. 

                         any female effected by Adoption, 

                        is more than welcome to join us,

                       we are a friendly group of women who meet monthly 

                        either North side   on Tuesday's 

                      or South side  on Saturday's

                   we have Lunch, there's a wide variety of meals to choose from

                                           also a choice of drinks, & 

                                   yummy   cakes for afternoon tea,

                                   as we are a charity group everyone is  

                                   RESPONSIBLE for their own food & drinks,

                                          there are a lot of things to catch upon 

                                  on Saturday  21 st March is the 13th Anniversary of 

                                         The National Forced Adoption Apology

                                   Starts  10 am until 12pm

                                     same place as last  year

                                VICTORIA  PARK FUNCTION VENUE

                                     The QUARTZ Room

                           309 HERSTON ROAD HERSTON

                   if your coming please RSP by Monday 9th March

                                to support@jigsawqld.org.au

                as we have a limit on numbers booking are essential. 

                          for more info please phone trish 0417077159

 Hello to all the ALAS Members , & people reading our Blog would you believe it its already 27 th of February , 2026,  in this 

The International   Chinese  Year of the Fire Horse, 

so far the years start has been interesting & positive for so many people, some would no   that 

 On the 18th February 2026 most of the Adoption Committee attended a round table conference on 

Adoption we all got to meet the Minister Amanda Camm & her team & many other people with interests 

in the future of Adoption, everyone  in the room learnt the experiences from the Forced Adoption era, 

many peoples eyes were wide opened to some of the  Facts not often spoken about. it was good use of 

the  morning very well spent, a lot of good ideas were well discussed around the room, 

hopefully we will attend more of these  type of Meetings. We all need to stay very active in helping 

Children find forever loving homes.

 

    So much has happened in the last few months, so here goes 

We celebrated the 13 th Anniversary of the Queensland Governments Forced Adoption Apology, even though it was a 9.30 start at the Memorial it was still an absolutely Horrendously hot day, we left early to go on down to The Normanby Hotel where it was cooler, it was a really good  atmosphere, the speakers were well received by everyone, & Kerri's music was once again lovely to listen to over all it was a good day.

  On  Saturday   the 6th of December we held our Christmas Lunch at the Four Mile Creek, we  enjoyed the day, exchanging Cards , Secret Santa, pulling Christmas Crackers & wearing those silly Hats & reading those jokes, all while wearing  bright   Christmas  clothes with  happy smiling  faces, the food was good  i loved my Roast Turkey  & vegies with a delicious Christmas Pudding ice cream & custard. it was lovely to stay until late in the afternoon  sitting around talking & catching up with one another.  

I hope you all enjoyed a Happy Christmas, with plenty of fun things to do ,i hope some got some good

 Family time   & are having a great 2026 so far.