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John Francis Fogarty, who was an outstanding Family Court judge and a significant figure in child protection, has died aged 80. ..
Children of anonymous sperm donors should be allowed access to genetic information such as health history, height and eye colour, and an agency set up to quickly collect these records because they are at risk of being lost, an inquiry has found…
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, legalising voluntary euthanasia, was defeated in the Tasmanian House of Assembly 13 votes to 11 following speaker-at-the-time Michael Polley’s vote. This is a far narrower margin compared to 2009, where similar legislation was defeated by 15 votes to 7…
Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…
A sharp rise in Australian children born in India shows laws criminalising commercial surrogacy are doing nothing to stop parents going overseas to find birth mothers for their children, surrogacy advocates say…
The New South Wales Health Minister and Attorney-General have taken opposing sides over proposed legislation to change the legal definition of an unborn child. MPs will be allowed a conscience vote on the private member’s bill, which is designed to allow criminal liability for the death of a foetus that is at least 20 weeks old. Currently, charges can only be laid over the injury or death of the mother…
Allegations of child sexual abuse are being increasingly invented by mothers to stop fathers from seeing their children, says a retiring Family Court judge…
A same-sex couple who hired an illiterate Indian woman to be the surrogate mother of their twins was ordered by a judge to return to India to prove she had not been exploited…
A group of Australian doctors opposed to the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide has written to all South Australian House of Assembly MPs condemning Hon. Bob Such’s ‘Ending Life with Dignity Bill’ 2013…
THE federal government is facing a revolt over its $102.4 million increase in court fees, with solicitors warning that some of their poorest clients can no longer afford a divorce…









