Table 14: Adoptions of Aboriginal children by State/Territory - 1990/91 - 1994/95

	TAS	ACT	SA	WA	NT	QLD**	VIC	NSW	TOTAL
1990/91
ATSI	0	0	n/a	1	1	1	0	5	8
non-ATSI	0	0	n/a	1	0	0	0	9	10
Total	0	0	n/a	2	1	1	0	14	18
1991/92
ATSI	0	0	n/a	0	0	3	0	4	7
non-ATSI	0	0	n/a	0	1	0	0	1	2
Total	0	0	n/a	0	1	3	0	6°	10°
1992/93
ATSI	0	0	n/a	2	1	2	0	1	6
non-ATSI	0	0	n/a	0	0	1	0	1	2
Total	0	0	n/a	2	1	3	0	2	8
1993/94
ATSI	0	0	n/a	2	0	4	0	3	9
non-ATSI	0	0	n/a	0	0	0	0	3	3
Total	0	0	n/a	2	0	4	0	6	12
1994/95
ATSI	0	0	n/a	1	0	4	0	5	10
non-ATSI	0	0	n/a	0	0	0	0	2	2
Total	0	0	n/a	1	0	4	0	7	12
Total
ATSI	0	0	0	6	2	14	0	18	40
non-ATSI	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	16	20
Total	0	0	1*	7	3	15	0	35°	61°

Notes to Table 14

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Adoptions Australia series 1990/91-1994/95: see Chapter 4 note 60

* Please note that while AIHW has no records for the adoption of Aboriginal children in South Australia for this period, South Australia - Family and Community Services provided information to this Report that one Aboriginal child had been adopted by non-Aboriginal people in the last five years: South Australia - Family and Community Services Letter (26 September 1995).

** Note: these figures have been supplied separately by the Queensland - Department of Family and Community Services. The Department reported a difficulty in maintaining accurate computer records regarding adoptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and stated that these figures are more accurate than those supplied previously to the AIHW: Queensland - Department of Family and Community Services (now Department of Families, Youth and Community Care) Letter (22 February 1996). The figures held by the AIHW show 14 adoptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children over this period, eight adopted to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander families, 6 adopted to non-Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander families.

° This figure includes the adoption of one Aboriginal child where the Aboriginality of the adoptive parents is unknown.