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Newman 'like Big Brother': Farmer Dave
Brisbane :: Australia | 10 months ago
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Big Brother contestant says Queensland's premier is acting like the reality show's namesake by moving to outlaw gay surrogacy and water down same-sex civil unions. Queensland sheep farmer David Graham says it was a kick in the guts when the Liberal
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Editor's Thoughts
Perth :: Australia | 11 months ago
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The state's new Attorney General has proposed that altruistic surrogacy will be outlawed for single people and same sex couples. The move came as a surprise as Premier Campbell Newman had previously indicated that the government would not be
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Newman kowtowing to right-wingers: Cope
Melbourne :: Australia | 11 months ago
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Story continues below Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced the plan Thursday night, as parliament passed amendments to water down the former Labor government's same-sex civil unions laws. At the end of debate on those amendments, which sparked
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Surrogacy rights to go for Qld gay couples
Melbourne :: Australia | 11 months ago
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Gay rights campaigners erupted in anger at state parliament on Thursday night, when Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie flagged the repeal of parts of the former Labor government's Surrogacy Act. Defacto couples in relationships of less than two years
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Christian group condemns two dads couple
Melbourne :: Australia | 12 months ago
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Managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Jim Wallace also likened children in such situations to members of the stolen generation. A NSW Supreme Court judgement handed down last month found it was in the child's best interests to
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IVF for lesbians 'a threat to men'
Adelaide :: Australia | 1 year ago
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IVF is undermining the traditional family and writing off fathers, Liberal MP Martin Hamilton-Smith says. Labor MP Ian Hunter has introduced a Bill to Parliament to allow fertile same-sex couples, or single women, to access assisted reproductive
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Same-sex IVF may soon be legal
Adelaide :: Australia | 1 year ago
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The Assisted Reproductive Treatment (Equality of Access) Amendment Bill was introduced as a Private Members Bill by Communities and Social Inclusion Minister Ian Hunter. It passed a conscience vote in Parliament's Upper House last night 12 votes to 9
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Proposed Bill on surrogacy is not adequate: Experts
Gāndhīnagar :: India | over 1 year ago
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India has already decided to legalise surrogacy in the country, but legal experts are against comercialisation of the noble cause of lending a womb. They believe that the Bill proposed for regularisation of surrogacy is inadequate and there is a need
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SA Recognises Gay Parents
Sydney :: Australia | almost 2 years ago
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Amendment Bill 2010 passed through the lower house of parliament yesterday, several months after it was passed in the Legislative Council. The Bill received cross-party support from state Labor, Liberal and Greens' members. Liberal MP David Pisoni
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Surrogacy laws tested in court
Brisbane :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Altruistic surrogacy, which does not involve payment, was decriminalised in February, with the new Surrogacy Act coming into effect in June. Under the reforms, which extend to same-sex couples, legal parentage of a child born in surrogacy agreements
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