Latest Articles from the Page Provan team
A few years ago, Sarah Wynn-Williams interviewed me, as Facebook was looking at what position it should take about commercial #surrogacy. Facebook was concerned about the possibility of exploitation. Two great difficulties I pointed out were: What is commercial #surrogacy? There was no clear definition, and many shades of grey, making it difficult to characterise… Read More »Meta’s Surrogacy Policy Dilemma: Lessons from Facebook’s Review
Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference Rarely has a conference been held in such a challenging environment. The Sword of Damocles hung over the conference- and fell three days later- with the removal by Health Ministers of RTAC from accrediting IVF clinics, and replacing that by 1 January 2027 with a federal government… Read More »Inside FSANZ 2025: Research, Regulation and What’s Next
It is depressing to read a judgment and realise that a judge has got something fairly basic wrong. It is even more depressing, as a family lawyer of 38 years post-admission, to see a judgment where the judge got two significant issues of law wrong in the judgment. Sadly, that occurred in the case of… Read More »NSW surrogacy law is not extra-territorial: judge
A Queensland husband and wife, in the recent case of Lloyd & Compton [2025] FedCFamC1A 28, who had undertaken surrogacy in North Cyprus, were denied their chance of parenting orders and leave to adopt because they had undertaken commercial surrogacy. Instead, they were referred to the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions for engaging in commercial… Read More »Queensland couple referred to police for surrogacy
Reform of the regulatory and accreditation environment for the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Sector Health Ministers agreed that all Australians should have confidence in the ART services they access. Health Ministers commissioned a rapid review of ART in June. The Review found the current self-regulatory approach lacks the transparency and rigour that governments and the… Read More »Australian Health Ministers communique
The latest data has revealed that more Australian children have been born via surrogacy at home than in the United States in 2023. The latest report by the Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproductive Database, and its New Zealand equivalent, show that in the year ended 30 June 2023, 84 babies were born via gestational… Read More »More Australian Surrogacy Births in Australia than in the US in 2023
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Ms Reem Alsalem, has called for the “eradication” of all surrogacy in her report to the United Nations General Assembly “The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy”. In her key conclusion, the Special Rapporteur says: “The practice… Read More »UN Special Rapporteur calls for the “eradication” of all surrogacy
Australia’s fertility and reproductive treatment landscape is at a critical crossroads. With fragmented regulation across states, uncontrolled private sperm donation, and barriers to accessing treatment, urgent reform is needed to protect vulnerable women and children while ensuring equitable access to assisted reproductive technology. As a leading Sydney surrogacy lawyer, Stephen Page from Page Provan has… Read More »Reforming Australia’s Fertility Laws: Our Submission to NSW Parliament
For the second year in a row, there has been a record-breaking number of Australian children born overseas through surrogacy. For the year ending 30 June 2025, 377 children were born overseas through surrogacy, according to data compiled by the Department of Home Affairs. This just pips the previous record, set in 2024, of 376… Read More »A record number of Australian children born overseas through surrogacy – again
