Proposed changes to fees relative to Intercountry adoption

Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
Sharon Byerley
53 Douer Street
Hawthorne Qld 4171
Total Signatures - 1,104
Sponsoring Member: Patrick Purcell MP
Posting Date: 22/8/2007
Closing Date: 3/9/2007
Tabled Date: 5/9/2007
Responded By: Hon Margaret Keech MP on 22/11/2007
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Queensland Citizens draws to the attention of the House proposed changes to fees relative to the Intercountry Adoption process. Your petitioners therefore, request the House to instruct the Department of Child Safety to abandon the proposed 250% increase in the cost of Intercountry Adoption assessment. Instead we ask that the House instruct the Department of Child Safety to increase the existing cost of assessment for both local children ($540.30) and Intercountry Adoption ($2053.00) in accordance with annual CPI indexation.