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…

FAMILIES would spend less time in court and more time in conferences under a new approach to child protection in NSW, Minister for Women Pru Goward says…

Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…

Australians paying women in India to have their babies are being overcharged by clinics taking advantage of the booming demand for commercial surrogacy, advocacy groups warn…

SPOUSES will automatically inherit the estates of their partners when they do not leave a will, under new laws that come into force in NSW today…