Social Policy & Society (2012) 11:3, 481–482 C  Cambridge University Press 2012 doi:10.1017/S1474746412000164 Some Useful Sources Denise Cuthbert School of Graduate Research, RMIT University E-mail: denise.cuthbert@rmit.edu.au In addition to the literature surveyed in the review article and the references provided by each of the authors, further sources are provided here. This selection might appear idiosyncratic for international readers given its Australian focus but it has been made because the sources (not likely to be widely known outside Australia) provide current, rich and unique ethnographic data on the complex politics of intercountry adoption in a receiving country and of past practices in domestic adoption, both of which have implications for current policy and practice. These sources – written submissions and verbal testimonies received by two Australian parliamentary inquiries – highlight the dynamic interplay between social policy and society – with groups and individuals seeking to influence the direction of future policy, while others seek acknowledgement and redress of the injustices done to them (and their children) under past policy and practice. They also provide insight into what might be seen – for example by those in the United Kingdom and the United States – as a very different national consciousness on both domestic and intercountry adoption in Australia from those that prevail elsewhere. As a reading of the sources listed below reveals, this consciousness is coloured by what may be termed the ‘long shadow’ of the history of Indigenous (and other) child removal in the settle-colonial context of Australia. This context tends to lead to greater emphasis now being placed on the damage of separation and removal than on any benefits which may flow from child placement. In 2005, a standing committee of the Australian House of Representatives conducted an inquiry into intercountry adoption in Australia (Standing Committee on Family and Human Services, 2005). In the conduct of this inquiry, 274 written submissions were received and at a series of public hearings around the nation, scores of testimonies were received, all of which are available online. The full texts of submissions, testimonies and deliberations at public hearings and the final report of the committee are as follows: Standing Committee on Family and Human Services (2005) Overseas Adoption in Australia, Report on the Inquiry into Adoption of Children from Overseas, Parliament of Australia, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fhs/adoption/report/fullreport.pdf [accessed 05.01.2012]. Standing Committee on Family and Human Services (2005) Inquiry into Adoption of Children from Overseas, Submissions Received by the Committee, Parliament of Australia, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fhs/adoption/subs.htm [accessed 05.01.2012]. Standing Committee on Family and Human Services (2005) Inquiry into Adoption of Children from Overseas, Schedule of Public Hearings, Programs and Transcripts, Parliament of Australia, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/fhs/ adoption/hearings.htm [accessed 05.01.2012]. In complex circumstances which relate to similar inquiries followed by national apologies in 2008 and 2009 (Rudd, 2008, 2009) to three different groups of 481