Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…

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…

Whether it’s tweet-happy judges or YouTube-wielding family law litigants, social media is dramatically reshaping our court system. Two judges speak candidly about the many challenges that social media poses to our courts and the unprecedented opportunity it offers for a more transparent legal system…

Tasmania may have been the last Australian state to legalize homosexuality, and the first to introduce civil unions, but it has now voted to allow same-sex couples to adopt non-biological children for the first time…

A Family Court judge has awarded a man equal shared parental responsibility of a two-year-old boy he fathered as a sperm donor, in a landmark ruling. The decision was handed down despite despite Victorian law stating that sperm donors are not to be considered the father, because the father and child had already formed a bond with the approval of the mother…

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…

DIVORCING parents who use the “insidious features” of social media as a weapon will put at risk their custody arrangements and settlements and could even face prison, legal experts warn…

A decision on whether to give people conceived from sperm donors clues about their genetic origin on a separate page of their birth certificate has been shelved by the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. Donor-conception support groups said people had a …..

A DESPERATE dad has been reunited with his abducted daughter after his decade-long search for her ended near Sydney yesterday…

Tasmania’s Lower House has passed laws making it easier for same sex couples to adopt. The amendment to the Adoption Act allows gay men and women to adopt a child who is not a relative. The change passed with the …..