The term birth parent means the woman who gave birth to the child or the father of genetic origin of the child. The term parent means the birth or adoptive mother or the birth, adoptive, or legal father whose parental rights have not been terminated.
Goondiwindi is on the MacIntyre River in Queensland near the New South Wales border, 350 kilometres (220 mi) south west of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. The twin town of Boggabilla is nearby, on the New South Wales side of the border.
Nyngan is a country town of some 2500 people, situated by the Bogan River on the eastern edge of the Great Outback. It is located on the Mitchell Highway between Narromine and Bourke, 583 km north-west of Sydney and 173 metres above sea-level.The Barrier Highway also starts at Nyngan, heading west to Cobar.Wool, wheat and cattle are the primary local produce in what is a very productive pastoral and agricultural shire.t was established to the west of the Bogan and 28 km north-west of today's Nyngan. Cobb & Co made it a coach stop on the route north-west to Bourke and to the properties of the far west. Bushranger Charles Rutherford was shot by the owner of the Canonba Inn in 1867 while bailing up the establishment.