Australian Family and Fertility Law
Episodes
230 episodes
Relocating with children: what Australian family law requires
Under Australian family law, a parent who wants to relocate with their children — whether interstate or overseas — generally needs the other parent's consent, or risks having to fight the move through court. In this episode of the Australian Fa...
Australian citizenship surrogacy: Home Affairs wants more proof
Australian parents having children through overseas surrogacy are now facing significantly more paperwork when applying for their child's Australian citizenship — and a birth certificate alone is no longer enough for the Department of Home Affa...
Canada surrogacy during COVID: crossing borders to bring baby home
Canada surrogacy — how one family crossed closed borders during COVID to bring their daughter home, and how nutrition can shape fertility outcomes.Stephen Page, Multi-award winning su...
International egg donation: how Australia's laws actually work
International egg donation — how altruistic donor eggs from Ukraine and Georgia reach Australian intended parents legally and ethically.Stephen Page, Fertility lawyer and accredited f...
Queensland adoption crisis: why no child has been adopted from care since 2019
Queensland adoption crisis — no child has been adopted from state care since 2019, despite a decade of legislative promises.Stephen Page, Multi-award winning surrogacy lawyer and accr...
Mexico surrogacy: how Babies Come True supports intended parents
Mexico surrogacy — how one agency supports intended parents and surrogates across the Americas.Stephen Page, Multi-award winning surrogacy lawyer and accredited family law specialist ...
Queensland sperm donor family limits explained
Queensland Health family limits — why lesbian couples using donor sperm are being counted as two separate families, not one.Stephen Page, Fertility lawyer and accredited family ...
Colombia surrogacy: inside the process with local experts
Colombia surrogacy — how intended parents, lawyers and IVF clinics work together to build families.Stephen Page, Multi-award winning surrogacy lawyer and accredited family law specialist at Page Provan, sits down at the Growing Families...
South Australia surrogacy agreements: are they unlawful?
Under South Australia's Surrogacy Act 2019, an interstate couple using a South Australian surrogate is, on the face of it, entering into an unlawful surrogacy agreement — even though no offence has been committed. In this episode of the Austral...
WA surrogacy parents: register now for parentage orders
WA parentage orders — surrogacy parents in Western Australia have a six month window to register.Stephen Page, multi-award winning surrogacy lawyer and accredited family law speciali...
NSW five women limit: sperm cost up to $60,000
NSW five women limit — Stephen Page explains why sperm now costs up to $60,000 in New South Wales.Stephen Page, fertility lawyer and accredited family law specialist at Page Provan e...
Parenting plans vs consent orders explained
Parenting plans vs consent orders — one is flexible, the other is legally binding, and choosing wrong could cost you.Bruce Provan, Managing Director and accredited family law special...
Sperm donor family limit in Queensland explained
Queensland says the donor family limit is 10 — but for lesbian couples, Queensland Health has quietly turned that into five. In this episode, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer...
NSW fertility inquiry: surrogacy evidence under scrutiny
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page sounds the alarm on the intense fight over surrogacy laws in Australia taking place inside the...
Surrogacy lawyer explains upcoming ALRC reports
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page looks ahead to two monumental reports from the Australian Law Reform Commission due in July and August 2026....
Overseas surrogacy births now recognised in Australia
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page explores a monumental legal update for families formed through international surrogacy.Stephen breaks...
Do Children Have a Say in Family Court? Australian Parenting Cases Explained
In this highly informative episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Bruce Provan, Managing Director of Page Provan, tackles one of the most critical questions in ...
A Historic Victory for Same-Sex Surrogacy in Western Australia
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page unpacks the landmark Western Australi...
International Surrogacy Insights: Join Me at the Growing Families Conference
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page invites listeners to join him at the u...
30 Years a Specialist & 21 Years Together: The Page Provan Story
In this special episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page takes a moment to reflect on two major career milestones occurring at the end of June and the...
Australian Surrogacy Law: A Gay Father's Journey from Prejudice to Pride
Happy Pride Month! In this deeply personal episode, Multi-Award Winning Surrogacy & Fertility Lawyer Stephen Page opens up about his own family's surrogacy journey a...
Can I Move Away With My Child? Relocation Law in Australia
Parental relocation—the act of moving a child to a new location that significantly impacts their contact with the other parent—is a high-stakes area of family law. In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast,
Surrogacy in the USA: Storm Clouds and Legal Risks in 2026
While the United States remains a highly desirable destination for surrogacy due to its established legal frameworks, 2026 has brought a series of "storm clouds" that intended parents can no longer ignore. In this episode of the Australian F...