just spoke to my mum she is a foster carer in QLD

ok sweets what is means is the department are applying for guardinship rights nothing to do with adoption etc, just gives the department full legal rights for the child for example schooling, dr, anything the child requires where a parent would normally have to give permission, when they dont have this order a parent can say no you can't let my child have surgery, you can't let my child go to that school, you can't cut my childs hair...

basically means parental rights are now the departments nothing to do with adoption or anything like that...

HTH