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International egg donation — how altruistic donor eggs from Ukraine and Georgia reach Australian intended parents legally and ethically.

Stephen Page, Fertility lawyer and accredited family law specialist at Page Provan, talks to Melissa Quinn, National Manager at Manor Baby, an international egg donor bank sourcing donors from Georgia and Ukraine.

In this episode:

• How Australia's altruistic donation laws apply to overseas egg donors, and why they aren't being paid or exploited
• The extra layers of counselling international donors go through, on top of Australia's ANZICA requirements
• How family limits and future donor-conceived child rights apply even when donors are based overseas
• How intended parents connect with an international egg donor bank through their IVF clinic or directly
• Why Australia's eight different state and territory IVF regulatory systems create unnecessary complexity, and the case for one national law

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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 accredited family law specialist at Page Provan, breaks down the findings of the Child Safety Inquiry by Paul Anastasio Casey, commissioned by the Queensland Government.

In this episode:

• Why the Child Safety Inquiry found adoption has become "institutionally invisible" in Queensland
• How adoption differs from guardianship orders and Family Law Act parenting orders in giving children lifelong legal permanency
• Why fewer than 10% of children in long-term care receive the legal reviews they're entitled to
• How historical forced adoption practices have wrongly discouraged contemporary adoption, despite very different legal safeguards today
• What the inquiry recommends to restore adoption as a genuine option for children who can't go home

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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 at Page Provan, talks to Mario Delgadillo from Babies Come True International, a surrogacy agency operating across Mexico, the US, Canada, Colombia and Argentina, at the Growing Families Conference in Sydney.

In this episode:

• How Babies Come True supports intended parents from around the world through their surrogacy journey in Mexico and across the Americas
• Why some intended parents return for a second or third surrogacy journey using frozen embryos
• How surrogates are supported with 24/7 psychological and medical care throughout the process
• How Mexico's Supreme Court ruling protects surrogates through fair agreements, independent legal advice and bodily autonomy
• Practical advice for intended parents starting their surrogacy journey, including why there's no single "best" agency or clinic

📞 Need advice? Contact Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers.
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